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enlarge on windows build instructions slightly #3401

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31 changes: 18 additions & 13 deletions INSTALL
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Expand Up @@ -163,10 +163,11 @@ Build requirements

These are external packages which you will need to install before
installing matplotlib. If you are building on OSX, see
:ref:`build_osx`. If you are installing dependencies with a package
manager on Linux, you may need to install the development packages
(look for a "-dev" postfix) in addition to the libraries themselves.

:ref:`build_osx`. If you are building on Windows, see
:ref:`build_windows`. If you are installing dependencies with a
package manager on Linux, you may need to install the development
packages (look for a "-dev" postfix) in addition to the libraries
themselves.

Required Dependencies
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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libpng 1.2 (or later)
library for loading and saving :term:`PNG` files (`download
<http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html>`__). libpng requires
zlib. If you are a Windows user, you can ignore this because we
build support into the matplotlib single-click installer

zlib.

Optional GUI framework
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Optional dependencies
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

`Pillow http://python-imaging.github.io/`__
`Pillow <http://python-imaging.github.io/>`_
If Pillow is installed, matplotlib can read and write a larger
selection of image file formats.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -295,12 +294,18 @@ the different OSX version (e.g., 10.4 and 10.5). We recommend that you build
the way we do for the OSX release: get the source from the tarball or the
git repository and follow the instruction in :file:`README.osx`.

.. _build_osx:
.. _build_windows:

Building on Windows
-------------------

Building for source on windows can be difficult. Please see
`matplotlib-windbuild
<https://github.com/jbmohler/matplotlib-winbuild>`_ for detailed
instructions, dependency source blobs, and helper scripts.
The Python shipped from http://www.python.org is compiled with Visual Studio
2008 for versions before 3.3 and Visual Studio 2010 for 3.3 and later. Python
extensions are recommended to be compiled with the same compiler. The .NET
Framework 4.0 is required for MSBuild (you'll likely have the requisite
Framework with Visual Studio). In addition to Visual Studio `CMake
<http://www.cmake.org>`_ is required for building libpng.

Since there is no canonical Windows package manager the build methods for
freetype, zlib, libpng, tcl, & tk source code are documented as a build script
at `matplotlib=winbuild <https://github.com/jbmohler/matplotlib-winbuild>`.
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typo '=' instead of '-'

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.. note::
Mac OSX users please see the :ref:`build_osx` guide.

Windows users please see the :ref:`build_windows` guide.

Then, if you want to update your matplotlib at any time, just do::

> git pull
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