Building mpl on OSX has proven to be a nightmare because of all the

different types of zlib, png and freetype that may be on your system.

The recommended and supported way to build is to use the make.osx file

in this directory. This script requires you to set a PREFIX

environment variable where you want the install to go. It will

fetch the dependencies from a remote server and install them into your

PREFIX dir, and then build mpl against them. It should ignore any

lib, png or freetype on your system

Example usage::

make -f make.osx PREFIX=/Users/jdhunter/dev PYVERSION=2.6 \

fetch deps mpl_install_std

Variables:

PREFIX (required): where to install the dependencies

PYVERSION (optional): which python version to use

(default=python, e.g. PYVERSION=2.6 uses python2.6)

Targets:

clean: remove compiled files

fetch: download dependencies

deps: build all dependencies (zlib, png, freetype)

mpl_build: compile matplotlib

mpl_install: install matplotlib in $PREFIX/lib/pythonX.Y/site-packages

mpl_install_std: install matplotlib in standard site-packages directory

mpl_install_egg: install matplotlib as an egg

mpl_install_develop: set up egg link to working directory (for developers)

binaries: create the dmg file for distribution