A user just replied with some problems he had and made me realize that I'd forgotten that I manually installed a freetype2 lib (which made the earlier build recipe work). If I undo that manual freetype2 installation, then I *believe* the earlier recipe will work with the following change:
export CFLAGS='-I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11/include/libpng15' -Randy Begin forwarded message: > From: Randy Heiland <heil...@indiana.edu> > Subject: build matplotlib on OSX Lion > Date: August 9, 2011 4:45:31 PM EDT > To: <matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > > 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
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