Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib on cygwin

[Chris W. <ch...@ch...>]

John Hunter <jdh...@ac...> writes:

> >>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Mont <ale...@co...> writes:
>     Alexander> line 100, in add_base_flage incdirs = [os.path.join(p,
>     Alexander> 'include') for p in basedir[sys, platform] KeyError:
>     Alexander> 'cygwin'
> 
> This is almost certainly a typo.  I guess you mean 'sys.platform'
> 
>     Alexander> How do I fix this? I installed numarray and I changed the NUMERIX value in the matplotlibrc file from Numeric to numarray but I still have the same problem.
> 
> This has nothing to do with the numerix setting.  Check out
> setupext.py and add an entry to the basedir dictionary to reflect your
> local path information.  If you get something that works, please post
> it so we can include it in the standard distro.

I don't have my cygwin machine with me at the moment, but I recall
needing to add a line to setupext.py something like:

    'linux' : ['/usr/local', '/usr',], ### This line already present
    'cygwin' : ['/usr/local', 'usr',],


Once I'd solved this, I had problems with the path for Tk - but I
can't remember exactly what they were


> 
> Is there a reason you don't want to use the pre-built win32 binaries?
> Most windows users are reasonably happy with that.

I can't speak for Alexander, but I went down the same path (and have
managed to get matplotlib working under cygwin [1]). I did so mainly
because of familiarity with the unix style of doing things. I use
cygwin to get a unix style way of working, but still have word etc
available without dual booting.

Specifically, I have a python/c module that I wanted to use to read in
the data I wanted to plot with matplotlib - and while this module was
easy to compile under cygwin, I couldn't work out how to compile it
for use with win32 (using gcc as I don't have MSVC).


Chris

[1] If sending you this source would be useful, then I can do so - I'd
hoped to write a recipe, but have been too busy. The main problem was
getting all the other things that are necessary for matplotlib, but
not included with cygwin to build, rather than matplotlib itself.