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<CANNq6Fksj9QgnRPE8jFp_3hnpkQ9647EFUPasUgLB3CgrCik0w@...552...>,Ok, there has been a lot of useful discussion (for both MacOSX and Windows),
but in the end, I want to know this: Is it possible for matplotlib to
provide a single, recommended, fully-supported-by-us method for installing
our package (possibly for each platform?). Could it be pip? Or some other
option?I think we'll always need to be able to install from source and also
offer a binary on MacOS X.* Build from source.
If your version of MacOS X is recent enough then building from source
could easily be made to work (with a few minor changes to setupext.py).
Most other projects have managed this. I may be able to find some time
to work on this.On the good side it would work with nearly any python build and it means
any user can install matplotlib in the obvious fashion. For these
reasons I think this is very much worth doing. However, it has some
disadvantages:
- It requires that users install XCode
- I don't think the resulting build will work with older versions of
MacOS X, because Apple's libraries aren't backward compatible. This
means the user will run into unexpected difficulty if they build and
distribute a bundled application. This is a serious problem and means
that users must have a binary installer option:-- Russell
A while ago, I posted a Makefile [1] that installs matplotlib (together with NumPy and SciPy) on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard without downloading any additional libraries (except from gfortran). Xcode (and Python) are the only dependencies.
I just tried to install the current github master on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (with a self-built Python 2.7.2) and it still works:
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7
export ARCHFLAGS=-arch x86_64
export CFLAGS="\{ARCHFLAGS\} \-I/usr/X11/include \-I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 \-isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX{MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}.sdk"
export LDFLAGS="-Wall -undefined dynamic_lookup -bundle \{ARCHFLAGS\} \-L/usr/X11/lib \-syslibroot,/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX{MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET}.sdk"
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
This should make it quite easy to let matplotlib be installed via "pip install matplotlib".
Cheers,
Stefan
[1] Building NumPy, SciPy & Matplotlib for Python 2.7 on Snow Leopard – Stefan Scherfke
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Benjamin Root <ben.root@...552...> wrote: