[matplotlib-devel] Building matplotlib on Windows

[Alexander B. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I try to build matplotlib 1.2.1 under Windows and create package for
OSGeo4W [0].
OSGeo4W contains most of the necessary dependencies: Python 2.7.2, numpy 1.5.1,
libpng 1.2.34, Qt 4.7.1, freetype 2.3.7 and others.

After downloading and unpacking matplotlib sources I edited
setupext.py file and add
'C:\OSGeo4W' to basedir list

basedir = defaultdict(lambda: ['/usr/local', '/usr'], {
    # execptions to the ['/usr/local', '/usr'] defaults
    'win32'  : ['win32_static', 'c:\\OSGeo4W'],                     #
<---- here is it
    'darwin' : ['/usr/local/', '/usr', '/usr/X11', '/opt/local'],
    'sunos5' : [os.getenv('MPLIB_BASE') or '/usr/local',],
    'gnu0' : ['/usr'],
    'aix5' : ['/usr/local'],
    })

Than in commandline I run python setup.py build, from output I found
that include
files can't be found by compiler (see build.log.1 file from attached
zip). So I open
setupext.py again and modify check_for_freetype and add_ft2font_flags functions
adding to them path to osgeo4w includes (freetype includes in osgeo4w located at
C:\OSGeo4W\include\freetype, without 2 at end), modified file attached.

After this modification build process started, there are no missed includes, but
another error appears, see file build.log.2. I checked and found that in OSGeo4W
freetype library localed here C:\OSGeo4W\lib\freetype237.lib.

Is it possible to specify name of the library file somewhere? Maybe
there is build
guide? I found instructions at github [1], but all this guildes used
self-compiled
dependencies, while I want to use dependencies from OSGeo4W to make fully
compatible package.

Any hints and help is welcome

[0] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
[1] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1717

Thanks and sorry for my English
-- 
Alexander Bruy