DOC: conda install has no freetype support on Windows
pllim opened this issue · comments
Hello. I realized now that README recommends install from source for all platforms. However, by intuition, I first tried conda install (and also pip install at some point, I think). While it installed successfully on Windows, it did not have freetype support. To get that to work on Windows, I did this:
- Clone the aggdraw repository.
- Modify setup.py like mentioned in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17770413/aggdraw-cannot-load-font-no-text-renderer
- python setup.py install
I am documenting in here in case you wish to add a warning for Windows users. Thanks.
Aggdraw from conda-forge is meant to have freetype support enabled/included. Could you do me a favor and try freetype-config --prefix from your conda environment?
Additionally that stackoverflow question is out of date as the setup.py is now meant to find freetype automatically using the command mentioned above which is here in the setup.py (https://github.com/pytroll/aggdraw/blob/master/setup.py#L39). What did you set yours too when you built it from source?
Lastly, how are you checking that freetype support is enabled?
I just saw your linked issue for how it was failing. Maybe we need to add more output to the setup.py for what freetype it is using.
Lastly, do you have freetype manually installed in your conda environment? It's possible that the conda-forge recipe is broken and needs to force freetype installation.