matplotlib-devel Mailing List for matplotlib

On 7/24/06, Chris Fonnesbeck <fon...@gm...> wrote:
> On 7/23/06, Charlie Moad <cw...@gm...> wrote:
> > The mingw/2.4 build still works. There are instructions at the top of
> > the setupext.py file. The dll linking error you are getting is
> > something we ran into a lot. If you have numpy installed distutils
> > will use the numpy\distutils\mingw32ccompiler.py file. In the
> > Mingw32CCompiler class remove all links to "msvcr71". In my version
> > of numpy just comment out the whole if block at line 127.
> >
>
> I tried commenting out that very block, but then numpy will not build
> -- it does not see the mingw32 compiler without those lines, it
> appears. I used the --compiler switch on the build, but to no avail.
>
> I'm a bit stuck here, as matplotlib does not build, and the binary
> does not seem to work. I'm trying to put together a package that
> contains numpy, matplotlib and scipy to distribute to some of my
> users.
Try this. If you are still getting an error, please post it. I am
moving this to the devel list.
 if sys.version[:3] > '2.3':
 if libraries:
 pass #libraries.append('msvcr71')
 else:
 libraries = [] #['msvcr71']
The other option is to bundle that dll with matplotlib. I have seen
other python modules doing this.
- Charlie