I just installed matplotlib-0.63.4 on Mac OSX 10.3, with some difficulties i detail (and answer) below.
Using Fink (0.7.1), freetype2 (2.1.3-21), Tk and GTK.
python setup.py install fails because of wrong paths to find freetype2 ft2build.h. Darwin include paths (in setupext.py) are '/usr/local', '/usr', 'sw'. freetype2 include paths are :
> locate ft2build.h
> /sw/lib/freetype2/include/ft2build.h
> /usr/X11R6/include/freetype2/ft2build.h
Once '/usr/X11R6' or '/sw/lib/freetype2' to setupext.py paths for Darwin, build process works fine. Agg, GTKAgg, and TkAgg backends are available as described in your documentation.
I use matplotlib with ipython (python2.3.3, IPython0.6.3), and GTKAgg backend crashes if pygtk (2.0.0 here) is not build with threading. I used
> python setup.py build --enable-threading
Thanks for this great matplotlib product.
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