Re: [Matplotlib-users] Building current SVN trunk on Mac OS X 10.5

[Uri L. <las...@mi...>]

The first suggestion failed with the same error, while the same suggestion
worked up through the last step (make installers) which fails with the same
error.

I decided to try Tommy's suggestion of just figuring out how to compile
libpng as a universal binary.  The way I did it was to run the configuration
script as:

./configure --disable-dependency-tracking


and then to manually edit the Makefile.  To CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS I added

-arch i386 -arch ppc

Running make and sudo make install successfully built a universal library
for me.

After deleting my old MPL egg, I import matplotlib successfully and the
version number is as expected (0.98.6svn).

However, when I try to import pyplot, I get the following exception
traceback.  Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks again!

In [4]: import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)

/usr/local/lib/<ipython console> in <module>()

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.30002/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py
in <module>()
      4 from matplotlib import _pylab_helpers, interactive
      5 from matplotlib.cbook import dedent, silent_list, is_string_like,
is_numlike
----> 6 from matplotlib.figure import Figure, figaspect
      7 from matplotlib.backend_bases import FigureCanvasBase
      8 from matplotlib.image import imread as _imread

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.30002/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py
in <module>()
     17 import artist
     18 from artist import Artist, allow_rasterization
---> 19 from axes import Axes, SubplotBase, subplot_class_factory
     20 from cbook import flatten, allequal, Stack, iterable, dedent
     21 import _image

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.30002/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py
in <module>()
     17 import matplotlib.dates as mdates
     18 import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
---> 19 import matplotlib.image as mimage
     20 import matplotlib.legend as mlegend
     21 import matplotlib.lines as mlines

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.30002/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/image.py
in <module>()
     19 # For clarity, names from _image are given explicitly in this
module:
     20 import matplotlib._image as _image
---> 21 import matplotlib._png as _png
     22
     23 # For user convenience, the names from _image are also imported into

ImportError:
dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.30002/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/_png.so,
2): Symbol not found: _png_create_info_struct
  Referenced from:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/4.0.30002/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/_png.so
  Expected in: /usr/local/lib/libpng12.0.dylib



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 21:46, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Uri Laserson<las...@mi...> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I am trying to build the latest svn trunk version of MPL on OS X 10.5.  I
> am
> > getting the following error:
>
> Try
>
>  make build_osx105
>  python setup.py install --prefix=~/somewhere
>
> If that doesn't work, try
>
>  cd release/osx
>
> read the readme there and follow the instructions.  This will build
> mpl the way we do when making a release: fetch the dependencies (zlip,
> png and freetype) and build them with the right flags, and then build
> mpl explcitly linking to these libs.
>
> JDH
>



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Uri Laserson
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Harvard Medical School (Genetics)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mathematics)
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