Hi all, Since I recently got a new machine with a fresh install of OSX Lion, I thought I'd share my building-from-source experience. There seems to be a variety of approaches for doing this that folks have offered up - including installing another Python, installing homebrew (and subsequent pkgs), etc. So I thought I'd add one more - and for all I know this is redundant info.
My approach was the following: - use the Python that came with the system: Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05) [GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin - download matplotlib from git: git clone git://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib.git cd matplotlib export CFLAGS='-I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11/include/libpng15' cd /usr/local/lib sudo ln -s /usr/X11/lib/libpng15.dylib libpng15.dylib sudo ln -s /usr/X11/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib libfreetype.dylib python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install -Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
