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user3187688
user3187688

Reputation: 11

building matplotlib from source on fedora 19, and found no freetype header files

i had installed matplotlib source package on a fedora 19 system, and got the following information:

============================================================================
Edit setup.cfg to change the build options

BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
    matplotlib: yes [1.3.1]
        python: yes [2.7.6 (default, Jan  9 2014, 14:24:42)  [GCC
                4.8.1 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.1-1)]]`
      platform: yes [linux2]

REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES AND EXTENSIONS
         numpy: yes [version 1.8.0]
      dateutil: yes [dateutil was not found. It is required for date
                     axis support. pip/easy_install may attempt to
                     install it after matplotlib.]
       tornado: yes [tornado was not found. It is required for the
                WebAgg backend. pip/easy_install may attempt to
                install it after matplotlib.]
     pyparsing: yes [pyparsing was not found. It is required for
                mathtext support. pip/easy_install may attempt to
                install it after matplotlib.]
         pycxx: yes [Couldn't import.  Using local copy.]
        libagg: yes [pkg-config information for 'libagg' could not
                be found. Using local copy.]
      freetype: no  [The C/C++ header for freetype2 (ftbuild.h)
                could not be found. You may need to install the
                development package.]
           png: yes [pkg-config information for 'libpng' could not
                be found. Using unknown version.]

OPTIONAL SUBPACKAGES
   sample_data: yes [installing]
      toolkits: yes [installing]
         tests: yes [using nose version 1.3.0]

OPTIONAL BACKEND EXTENSIONS
        macosx: no  [Mac OS-X only]
        qt4agg: no  [PyQt4 not found]
       gtk3agg: no  [Requires pygobject to be installed.]
     gtk3cairo: no  [Requires cairo to be installed.]
        gtkagg: no  [Requires pygtk.]
         tkagg: no  [TKAgg requires Tkinter.]
         wxagg: no  [requires wxPython]
           gtk: no  [The C/C++ header for gtk (gtk/gtk.h) could not
                be found.  You may need to install the development
                package.]
           agg: yes [installing]
         cairo: no  [cairo not found]
     windowing: no  [Microsoft Windows only]

OPTIONAL LATEX DEPENDENCIES
        dvipng: yes [version 1.14]
   ghostscript: yes [version 9.07]
         latex: no
       pdftops: yes [version 0.22.1]

============================================================================
                * The following required packages can not be built:
                * freetype

however, before this installation, i had already installed freetype 2.5.2 in default directory, that is, /usr/local. I found the header file(ft2build.h) in /usr/local/include/freetype2. The setupext.py is also checked, in the code part of class FreeType(SetupPackage), there are

the default_include_dirs=
          ['freetype2','lib/freetype2/include','lib/freetype2/include/freetype2',]

now, i don't know why the package could not find the installed freetype. do somebody have some ideas? Thanks for all your help!!!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1732

Answers (3)

subhacom
subhacom

Reputation: 919

Same problem on cygwin 64 on Windows 7, using pip install: solved after installing pkg-config.

Upvotes: 0

user3187688
user3187688

Reputation: 11

Thanks for all your helps!

yes, i install all these packages manually, since my pc with linux system donot connect to internet.

before i find your replying, i have solved the problem in an indirect way ;-( ,and here are what i have done:

since the devel package for freetype 2.5.2 is no convenient for my fedora 19 system, so i had to choose using freetype 2.4.11-6 with its devel package, and the dependency is ok now. i personally suspect it's a problem of environmental path-setting, but i have no time to test it at that time. in fact, the source package of freetype 2.5.2 already includes the devel sub-directory.

BTW, the manual installation of matplotlib are complicated, excluded the must packages: libpng and numpy, your still need to install distribute、backports.ssl_match_hostname、tornado、six、dateutil and pyparsing. only after all these installations are over, the matplotlib can finally be installed in your system.

Upvotes: 0

spacup
spacup

Reputation: 21

I had exactly the same problem. I solved it simply replacing 'ft2build.h' by the entire pathway of my ft2build.h (as suggered by tcaswell) in setupext.py, in self._check_for_pkg_config().

Upvotes: 1

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