Re: [matplotlib-devel] I have a Mac!

[Matt T. <mat...@gm...>]

I'm banging away at installing MPL on top of python.org's python.  I'm at
the libfreetype/freetype issue.  There seems to be three approaches to
getting MPL's dependencies.

1) install libpng[1] and freetype[2] from source
2) install XQuartz[3] and twiddle /opt/X11, /usr/X11 (per Russell's
directions[4]) so MPL finds XQuartz's libpng/freetype
3) install XQuartz[3] and install pkg-config[5] so MPL can find the
cleverly installed libraries
4) create the MPL binary installer and use that

Option 1 seems simple-est, but installing freetype requires more than
./configure && make && sudo make install.
Option 2 worries me with the manual symlinking and such.  Who knows what
we'll clobber.
Option 3: haven't fully explored.
Option 4: This would require some input from whoever (Gohlke?, Owen?) makes
the binary installers.


[1] http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
[2] http://www.freetype.org/index.html
[3] http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
[4]
http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/rowen/BuildingMatplotlibForMac.html
[5] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Matt Terry <mat...@gm...> wrote:

>  > with/without third party X
>> I'm not quite sure what you mean by with/without third party X. If you
>> are referring to Tck/Tk:
>>
>
> I had an issue where MPL found the headers to freetype in /opt/local, but
> library in /usr/X11.  Hilarity ensues.  I *think* /usr/X11 showed up when I
> installed XQuartz, but I don't have a clean image to compare against.
>
> The with-X / without-X builds would be there to check that the default
> search paths are compatible with common environments.
>
> -matt
>