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Thanks for all of the bug triaging that went on over the weekend. As I'm 
going through it, some of these are things that are pretty high 
priority, which I'm milestoning as "1.3.x blocker", and some are lower 
priority, but are good candidates for good things to discuss in person 
during the sprint, which I'm milestoning as "sprint".

Feel free to do the same for anything else that you think would make 
sense as a sprint topic -- not necessarily to work on, but at least to 
discuss in person.

Mike

Hi all,

I try to build matplotlib 1.2.1 under Windows and create package for
OSGeo4W [0].
OSGeo4W contains most of the necessary dependencies: Python 2.7.2, numpy 1.5.1,
libpng 1.2.34, Qt 4.7.1, freetype 2.3.7 and others.

After downloading and unpacking matplotlib sources I edited
setupext.py file and add
'C:\OSGeo4W' to basedir list

basedir = defaultdict(lambda: ['/usr/local', '/usr'], {
    # execptions to the ['/usr/local', '/usr'] defaults
    'win32'  : ['win32_static', 'c:\\OSGeo4W'],                     #
<---- here is it
    'darwin' : ['/usr/local/', '/usr', '/usr/X11', '/opt/local'],
    'sunos5' : [os.getenv('MPLIB_BASE') or '/usr/local',],
    'gnu0' : ['/usr'],
    'aix5' : ['/usr/local'],
    })

Than in commandline I run python setup.py build, from output I found
that include
files can't be found by compiler (see build.log.1 file from attached
zip). So I open
setupext.py again and modify check_for_freetype and add_ft2font_flags functions
adding to them path to osgeo4w includes (freetype includes in osgeo4w located at
C:\OSGeo4W\include\freetype, without 2 at end), modified file attached.

After this modification build process started, there are no missed includes, but
another error appears, see file build.log.2. I checked and found that in OSGeo4W
freetype library localed here C:\OSGeo4W\lib\freetype237.lib.

Is it possible to specify name of the library file somewhere? Maybe
there is build
guide? I found instructions at github [1], but all this guildes used
self-compiled
dependencies, while I want to use dependencies from OSGeo4W to make fully
compatible package.

Any hints and help is welcome

[0] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
[1] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1717

Thanks and sorry for my English
-- 
Alexander Bruy