site.py returns error in cygwin anaconda

the problem I had before was really just something that it was throwing later. It has something to do with my libfreetype I’ve noticed. I gave up for a while and used my vagrant box.

cygwin, matplotlib, numpy, python, scipyĪh man I wish it would’ve notified me that you replied.

To do this, locate the file `matplotlibrc` and change `backend : agg` to `backend : tkagg`. To fix that, you need to have `XWinServer` running and should configure matplotlib to use `tkagg` backend. I was able to get it to install using `pip -v install scipy=0.15.1`.Īfter installation, you may notice that you can’t plot stuff using mathplotlib’s `pyplot` module. The most important thing is that as of SciPy v 0.16.1, there seems to be some error in SciPy’s C files that prevents compilation and installation.

Running `pip -v install numpy` and `pip -v install matplotlib` should get you those packages without much headache. The dependencies that pip complains about are straightforward (just mark them for installation in Cygwin’s installer).

You also need to have `gcc-fortran`, `python-gtk2`, `tcl-tk`, `libpng`, `pkg-config` and a bunch of other stuff (that pip installer complains about) installed. Then using the `easy_install3 pip` command you can install pip.Īfter that, you need to have `liblapack-devel` and `libopenblas` installed via Cygwin’s package manager (SciPy depends on them).

To install pip, you need to have `python3-setuptools`installed. The whole thing took a few hours to figure out thanks to crappy bundled packages that pip fetches and lack of consistency between helps available online. Today I tried installing these modules under Cygwin with pip.

Site.py returns error in cygwin anaconda