Problems with building from source on windows with MinGW

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Hi, I'm having problems with building mpl from SVN on WinXP,

    > Python 2.5, latest numpy. I'm using MinGW from the
    > enthought edition. I remember building it without problems
    > just few weeks ago. The build process finishes without
    > error. Then, when I try:

    > from pylab import *

    > it crashes

    > import matplotlib

Did you rm -rf your build dir (and sometimes site-packages/matplotlib)
before rebuilding. This is usually the cause of such crashes.

JDH

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Yes I have. I even reinstalled windows (not related to matplotlib :),
and I had the same problems.

I'll experiment a bit more, but maybe the problem is not my system... :wink:

Cheers,
Edin

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On 12/26/06, John Hunter <jdhunter@...4...> wrote:

Did you rm -rf your build dir (and sometimes site-packages/matplotlib)
before rebuilding. This is usually the cause of such crashes.