matplotlib-devel Mailing List for matplotlib

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
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> > 2.12.1) on an OSX machine. Btw, matplotlib does not build on OSX
> > currently -- a person needs to upgrade gcc first (from 4.0.1 to 4.2).
> > I saw John posted a compiler error (resulting from this problem) on
> > some other list, so it's something to keep in mind.
>
> Yes, my colleague, Jules, and I ran into this yesterday. Very
> frustrating. We also ran into some sort of problem involving,
> apparently, a mixture of libraries and/or object modules with and
> without dual ppc/intel code, but from the error messages it was
> impossible for us to track down beyond that. It might have been obvious
> to an OSX wizard. Jules was trying to follow John's instructions
> carefully. Numpy went in flawlessly. Scipy went in OK, we think, but
> the test needed nosetest, and then when that was installed, it failed.
> We gave up on the matplotlib installation.
>
On a new machine without the proper depdendencies, you might want to try
first the makefile in release/osx, which will wget the depenencies, build
them with the right flag, and link them in statically. There is a README in
that directory with instructions, but here is a crib sheet from the command
history I just executed (which still works on my box)::
 # build the dependencies
 cd release/osx/
 unset PKG_CONFIG_PATH
 make fetch_deps
 cd bdist_mpkg-0.4.3
 sudo python setup.py install
 cd ..
 make dependencies
 # build the mpl sdist
 cd ../..
 python setup.py sdist
 mv dist/matplotlib-0.98.6svn.tar.gz release/osx/
 # set the version number in the Makefile to 0.98.6svn and build the
 # installers
 cd release/osx/
 make installers
On a machine that does have the dependencies properly buily and installed, I
use
 > make build_osx105
with the Makefile that lives alongside setup.py. This still works for me
with the native gcc 4.0.1 on my 10.5 machine and then you can do a normal
python setup.py install.