Despite numerous attempts to install pymc with no luck -- see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19878430/installing-pymc-then-matplotlib-win7-64-continues-to-fail-despite-workarounds -- I came across another SO post (Building lxml for Python 2.7 on Windows) explaining that I need to install MS Visual Studio 2008 to get this to compile, as I am using Python 2.7.3 on Win7-64, installed as part of Python(x,y).
When I now use python setup.py install, I don't get a "can't find vcvarsall.bat" error, but I get the following. Prior to running the following, I added c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\bin to the end of my PATH statement.
Any ideas on what this means/what I need to do next, as I have no idea how to unpick it?
Update 12-Nov-2013
I've now tried to install matplotlib via the available binary and freetype from Sourceforge. Neither seems to improve the situation. Any furter suggestions on what to try?
BTW the real goal is to install pymc -- however, there seems to be a dependency on matplotlib, where the following originates from.
ft2font.cpp
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\xlocale(342) : war
ning C4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not enabled. Sp
ecify /EHsc
c:\users\dantehman\appdata\local\temp\easy_install-sdaatv\matplotlib-1.3.1\src\ft
2font.h(16) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such
file or directory
error: Setup script exited with error: command '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsof
t Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' failed with exit status 2
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
func(*targs, **kargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\util.py", line 284, in _exit_function
info('process shutting down')
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Error in sys.exitfunc:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
func(*targs, **kargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\multiprocessing\util.py", line 284, in _exit_function
info('process shutting down')
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
