Re: [matplotlib-devel] MinGW/Win32 Release Build Scripts

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:25 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Charlie Moad <cw...@gm...> wrote:
>>> Another note.  I ran into problems when trying to create the build in
>>> a directory that had spaces.  (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\....).
>>> Try running everything in a top level dir.
>>
>> That's not it -- I avoid spaces like the plague.
>>
>> I am now getting a "cannot exec 'cc1plus'" error when I try and build
>> mpl itself (zlib, png, freetype and tcltl built fine).  I can do::
>>
>>  > gcc --version
>>
>> but not::
>>
>>  > g++ --version
>>
>> Did you install something extra for g++ -- I installed mingw 5.1.4,
>> MSYS and wget as instructed....)
>
> Never mind -- just reran the mingw-5.1.4.exe installer and it prompted
> me for additional compilers.  I selected g++ and now I have it

Now I am hitting a missing setuptools import from setupwinegg.py.
Apparently python2.6 doesn't come with setuptools on windows (Is this
expected?  It surprised me, I thought setuptools was supposed to be a
standard....)

Anyhow, a quick google takes me to

http://www.python-forum.org/pythonforum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10175

which suggests

1. Download setuptools-0.6c9.tar.gz
2. Download setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg to a folder(directory) outside
your Windows Python installation folder
3. Use 7-zip to extract ez_setup.py in the same folder as
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
4. Go to the corresponding dos prompt and run python ez_setup.py
setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg from the command prompt
5. Ensure that your PATH includes the appropriate C:\Python2X\Scripts directory

Is this really the path of least resistance?  Whatever happened to the
easy in ez_setup....

JDH