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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 <he...@in...>
> Subject: build matplotlib on OSX Lion
> Date: August 9, 2011 4:45:31 PM EDT
> To: <mat...@li...>
> 
> 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

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

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 6:39 PM, R. Padraic Springuel
<R.S...@um...> wrote:
> So, I have a python 3.2 install on my Mac for other purposes, but when I
> heard about the matplotlib branch for python 3 I figured I'd give it a
> try even though I have a perfectly good version for python 2.7 running
> already.  However, in attempting to build matplotlib, I get the
> following output:
>
>> basedirlist is: []
>> ============================================================================
>> BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
>>             matplotlib: 1.1.0
>>                 python: 3.2.1 (v3.2.1:ac1f7e5c0510, Jul  9 2011, 00:46:58)
>>                         [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)]
>>               platform: darwin
>>
>> REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
>>                  numpy: 1.6.1
>>              freetype2: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
>>                         * WARNING: Could not find 'freetype2' headers in any
>>                         * of '.', './freetype2'.

The report says the freetype2 headers could not be found, which
probably means they are not installed.