Re: [Matplotlib-users] installation

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 04 September 2006 12:15 pm, John Hunter wrote:
> >>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:
>
>     Darren> It is strongly discouraged to try to build matplotlib from
>     Darren> source on windows.  Setting up your windows environment to
>     Darren> build the source is difficult and time consuming. Please
>     Darren> use the windows installers at the download site instead.
>
> I wouldn't go as far to say it is strongly discouraged; merely that it
> is not for the faint of heart.  For enterprising souls who know there
> way around a compiler, I would encourage it, since we would have more
> hands to help with building and testing svn on windows.  As for the
> specific error messages, it looks like you do not have the tk
> development headers installed or for some reason your build is not
> finding them.  Please see the header for win32 in setupext.py and
> references to the READMEs therein if you want to pursue this.

My mistake. Not for the faint of heart is a much better way of putting it.