Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: Matplotlib-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 1 msg

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

    Darren> It turns out that temporarily renaming conflicting dll
    Darren> that lives in the windows/system32 folder was the right
    Darren> thing to do. Renaming that dll to dll.off prevents it from
    Darren> being accessed and GTK works.

Hi Darren,

Glad you got something working.

    Darren> Now I just have to wait for the offending program to
    Darren> complain. Then, the dll that I renamed can be moved to the
    Darren> folder containing the .exe file. The final step is to
    Darren> contact the offending software company and complain about
    Darren> their 3rd party dll's in the system32 folder.

It is hard to get the various gtk for win32 packages working together
for this reason.

    Darren> The guy who takes care of the windows port of GTK tells me
    Darren> that these dll conflicts are very common. It might be
    Darren> worth discussing on the matplotlib windows quickstart
    Darren> section.

It's in the FAQ http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq.html#GTKPATH.  I
updated the quickstart instructions to provide a link to the FAQ in
case people have trouble.

JDH