Matplotlib Build Problem: Error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h'

Question

ft2build.h is located here:

C:\\Program Files\\GnuWin32\\include

Initially, I made the same mistake as here:

Fatal

Answer 1

This error comes about when building matplotlib on Ubuntu 10.10 also. The solution is to do:

sudo apt-get install python-dev libfreetype6-dev