Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib & Basemap / What is the Best Graphical Back-end for Raster Data Display (.png) ?

[Benjamin R. <ben...@gm...>]

Matplotlib will not work at all without AGG. Even the AGG-less backends
still use AGG for image handling (imshow() and such).

We can not guarantee that matplotlib would work with agg 2.5, as that is
the GPL'ed version. We develop against a patched 2.4 branch of AGG (which
is BSD-licensed), which is distributed with our source, and is built as
part of our build process. Have you tried building matplotlib directly from
our source without a system install of AGG?

Cheers
Ben Root


On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:34 AM, Claude Falbriard <cl...@br...> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> I like to receive an advice about the best back-end choice for Matplotlib
> & Basemap to generate large .png images in a background processing mode.
> Having issues with the pre-compiled "Agg" package which does not work
> under my machine architecture. Also not able to recompile the Agg 2.5
> package as its build throws an error at the build script autogen.sh.
> Error:
>
> ./configure: line 15546: syntax error near unexpected token `$SDL_VERSION,'
> ./configure: line 15546: `AM_PATH_SDL($SDL_VERSION,'
>
> When bypassing this line it runs into another dependency which is blocking
> the make install process.
>
> libtool: link: cannot find the library
> `../src/platform/X11/libaggplatformX11.la' or unhandled argument
> `../src/platform/X11/libaggplatformX11.la'
> Makefile:1166: recipe for target 'aa_demo' failed
> make[1]: *** [aa_demo] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/data/Downloads/agg/agg-2.5/examples'
> Makefile:481: recipe for target 'install-recursive' failed
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
> I do not plan to use any interactive access, so my guess is that excluding
> X11 libraries should work OK.
>
> My test showed that the  "Cairo" package is working fine, but its quality
> (vector oriented) is not as good compared to the Agg raster display. Case
> the "Agg"
> is not able to install on my machine, is there an alternate graphical
> back-end available under SuSE environments?
>
> Regards,
>
> *Claude Falbriard*
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