[Pythonmac-SIG] solution for matplotlib compile problems
Robert Brown
brownr at ucalgary.ca
Sun Oct 10 22:19:30 CEST 2004
The latest version of matplotlib built out of the box for me... once I
built libpng and freetype2. It works great -- this really is a nice
package. Now all we need is some way to use Cocoa as a backend...
maybe by writing PDF support?
On 29-Sep-04, at 1:50 PM, John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Naples <adam.naples at yale.edu> writes:
>
> Adam> Hi, I have been trying to get the latest version of
> Adam> matplotlib to install (OS 10.3.5). the first attempt looked
> Adam> promising and then crashed after a few minutes. I
> Adam> downloaded this file you linked to and all I get is.
>
> You shouldn't do this. That file (written by me) was for an earlier
> version of matplotlib and the latest release includes those changes.
>
> Adam> $ python setup.py install Traceback (most recent call last):
> Adam> File "setup.py", line 52, in ? from setupext import
> Adam> build_agg, build_gtkagg, build_tkagg, \ ImportError: cannot
> Adam> import name build_transforms
>
> Adam> is this similar to the errors you were having? any help
> Adam> would be great. thanks in advance -an
>
> No this is unrelated to Kenneth's earlier problems, which were related
> to not being able to find tkinter properly.
>
> Your build tree is out of whack since you are using the wrong
> setup.py.
>
> Make sure you read the install instructions at
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/installing.html including the OSX
> specific stuff, then get the latest tarball (0.63.0), rm -rf any old
> matplotlib packages you have a round, and trying anew. Post any build
> errors you get and I'll help you sort them out. Typically, only the
> first error message or two conveys any useful information.
>
> JDH
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Robb Brown
Seaman Family MR Research Centre
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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