Build system for matplotlib OSX binaries
You'll need:
OSX >=10.6 (I've tested 10.6 and 10.8, <10.6 might work, I haven't tested)
Xcode command line tools
git on your system path
pkg-config on your system path. I build this from source at http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases, using:
./configure --with-internal-glib make sudo make install
Python.org python installed from the DMG installer. I've tested with Python 2.7 and 3.3. It might work with the system python, I haven't tried
For each python you want to install from, a version of numpy >= the required minimum version for matplotlib. At time of writing (v1.3.1) this was numpy 1.5
Run with:
python2.7 waf distclean configure build
where python2.7 is the python you want to build with.
The first time you run configure it will initalize the submodules, so you
might need to wait a few minutes. Or run it yourself beforehand with:
git submodule update --init
When the build is done, you should have a new matplotlib*mpkg directory in
build. Copy it somewhere and set permissions with something like:
sudo ./waf write_mpkg --mpkg-outpath=~/Downloads --mpkg-clobber
Some dependencies are archives, others are git submodule commits (tags usually).
To update the archives, download into the archive directory and edit the
wscript file to use the new archive filename.
For git submodule commits, update the commit reference in the wscript file,
then run waf refresh_submodules to pull in any necessary commits that you
don't yet have in the submodules.