Re: [Matplotlib-users] question about building from source on windows

[Michael D. <md...@st...>]

I'm going to summarize, just to make sure I have everything straight.

1) HEAD doesn't build (you get lots of "undefined reference to 
`_imp__FT_Done_FreeType'")
2) revision 3645 (yesterday before my setup.py changes), builds, but you 
got the float('inf') error (which is now fixed)
3) much earlier revisions (3608) have other issues (which seem to be 
related to out-of-date wxPython code)

I have just committed a possible fix for 1).  You may want to try 
updating to HEAD and building that.

If that doesn't work for you, I'm worried about things getting out of 
hand and annoying a lot of people with my (well intentioned) setup.py 
changes yesterday.  If that's the case, I will revert my build changes 
until I have a chance to sit in front of a Windows box and figure out 
what's really going wrong.

Apologies all around,
Mike

william ratcliff wrote:
> 3608 also runs into problems of linking with the freetype libraries.  
> Some much older versions (say in the 3500s) compile, but still crash 
> python2.5.1 with errors like:
>
> C:\matplotlib\trunk\matplotlib\examples>c:\python25\python.exe 
> embedding_in_wx4.
> py
> embedding_in_wx4.py:24: DeprecationWarning: The wxPython compatibility 
> package i
> s no longer automatically generated or actively maintained.  Please 
> switch to th
> e wx package as soon as possible.
>   from wxPython.wx import *
>
> Thanks again for the help!
>
> William
>
> On 8/1/07, *John Hunter* <jd...@gm... <mailto:jd...@gm...> 
> > wrote:
>
>     On 8/1/07, william ratcliff < wil...@gm...
>     <mailto:wil...@gm...>> wrote:
>     >     from matplotlib.mathtext import math_parse_s_ft2font
>     >   File
>     > "c:\python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mathtext.py",
>     > line 1182, in <mo
>     > dule>
>     >     class Vlist(List):
>     >   File
>     > "c:\python25\Lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mathtext.py",
>     > line 1189, in Vli
>     > st
>     >     def vpack(self, h=0., m='additional', l=float('inf')):
>     > ValueError: invalid literal for float(): inf
>
>     It's not clear to me why you should be hitting mathtext at all, since
>     the wxcursor_demo.py does not use it, as far as I can tell.  Michael,
>     would any of your earlier work caused him to get into mathtext
>     inapproriately?  You may need to revert a little farther, William, eg
>     to r3608 while we get this sorted out.
>
>     JDH
>
>