GD/gdmodule on Win XP

[Eduardo Elgueta]

John,

Thank you very much for such a complete answer.

I'll try it and let you now if I succeed building the patched gdmodule.

Best regards,

Ed.

<cita quien="John Hunter">
>>>>>> "Eduardo" == Eduardo Elgueta <eelgueta at navix.cl> writes:
>
>     Eduardo> Hi All, I'm trying to setup matplotlib
>     Eduardo> (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) in a Win XP box.
>
> gdmodule is difficult to install on windows (as you've discovered).
> Fortunately, Stefan Kuzminski figured this out and built a statically
> linked gd module - no need to download gd lib or freetype, etc.  Here
> are the compile notes he posted to the matplotlib-users mailing list
>
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7064914
>
> and here is a link to the dll; just put this in your site-packages dir.
>
>   http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gd/_gd.dll
>
> You will also need to place gd.py from the gdmodule-0.51 distro in
> site-packages.   After that you should be able to do
>
>   > python
>   >>> import gd
>
> IMPORTANT - I've been doing a lot of development on the gd backend of
> late and the latest version of matplotlib requires a patched version
> of gdmodule (which will become included in the standard gdmodule at
> the next release).  So the DLL linked above *will not* work with
> matplotlib-0.50.  Thus you will need to either:
>
>    * downgrade to matplotlib-0.42.2 -
>      http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706
>
>    * build the patched gdmodule using
>      http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gd/_gdmodule.c.  If you do
>      this, you can take advantage of the improvements made in the gd
>      backend subsequent to 0.42.2.  Please mail me a copy of the DLL
>      if you succeed with any compile notes.
>
> Of course you still need to the prerequisites described on
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/backends.html#GD, but gdmodule is
> definitely the tough nut to crack on win32.
>
> I haven't built fonttools for win32 in some time, so if someone else
> can pipe in and share their insights I'd be happy.  I found the TTX
> installer on the sourceforge site, but this doesn't seem to provide
> the python fontools package.
>
> With the prereqs installed, you can test your setup with
>
>   import matplotlib
>   matplotlib.use('GD')
>   from matplotlib.matlab import *
>   plot([1,2,3])
>   savefig('gdtest')
>
> Good luck!
> John Hunter
>


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