Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib build/install error

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Dali Laadhar <dal...@pr...> wrote:
> Hey ALL
>
> I've been trying to install matplotlib-0.99.1.1.
> Getting build errors :
>
> 1/
> [user@MyMachine ~]$ uname -a
> Linux target-datalog 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen #1 SMP Fri Feb 15 12:34:28 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> 2/ Used this link to download matplotlib:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.1/matplotlib-0.99.1.2.tar.gz/download
>
> 3/ Used python 2.6.2
>
> 4/ STEPS:
> [user@MyMachine downloads]$ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib/matplotlib-0.99.1/matplotlib-0.99.1.2.tar.gz/download
> [user@MyMachine downloads]$ tar -xzvf matplotlib-0.99.1.2.tar.gz
> [user@MyMachine downloads]$ cd matplotlib-0.99.1.1
> [user@MyMachine matplotlib-0.99.1.1]$ python setup.py build
>
> Got this error:
> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> cc1plus: warning: command line option "-Wstrict-prototypes" is valid for Ada/C/ObjC but not for C++
> In file included from src/ft2font.cpp:1:
> src/ft2font.h:13:22: error: ft2build.h: No such file or directory

You do not have the freetype2 headers installed. On ubuntu, I think
they are provided by the libfreetype6-dev package.

Darren