ft2build.h is located here:
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\include
Initially, I made the same mistake as here:
Fatal Error C1083: Cannot Open Include file: 'tiffio.h': No such file or directory VC++ 2008
but since then, I've corrected that particular error (I've added the above directory to the "include" list, rather than the "executables" list), but I still get an error. The complete output is this:
BUILDING MATPLOTLIB
matplotlib: 0.98.5.2
python: 2.6.2 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (release26-maint, Apr
14 2009, 21:19:36) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
platform: win32
Windows version: (5, 1, 2600, 2, 'Service Pack 3')
REQUIRED DEPENDENCIES
numpy: 1.3.0
freetype2: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
* WARNING: Could not find 'freetype2' headers in any
* of '.', '.\freetype2'.
OPTIONAL BACKEND DEPENDENCIES
libpng: found, but unknown version (no pkg-config)
* Could not find 'libpng' headers in any of '.'
Tkinter: no
* No tk/win32 support for this python version yet
wxPython: 2.8.9.2
* WxAgg extension not required for wxPython >= 2.8
Gtk+: no
* Building for Gtk+ requires pygtk; you must be able
* to "import gtk" in your build/install environment
Mac OS X native: no
Qt: no
Qt4: no
Cairo: no
OPTIONAL DATE/TIMEZONE DEPENDENCIES
datetime: present, version unknown
dateutil: matplotlib will provide
pytz: matplotlib will provide
OPTIONAL USETEX DEPENDENCIES
dvipng: no
ghostscript: no
latex: no
pdftops: no
[Edit setup.cfg to suppress the above messages]
============================================================================
pymods ['pylab']
packages ['matplotlib', 'matplotlib.backends', 'matplotlib.projections', 'mpl_to
olkits', 'matplotlib.numerix', 'matplotlib.numerix.mlab', 'matplotlib.numerix.ma
', 'matplotlib.numerix.npyma', 'matplotlib.numerix.linear_algebra', 'matplotlib.
numerix.random_array', 'matplotlib.numerix.fft', 'matplotlib.delaunay', 'pytz',
'dateutil', 'dateutil/zoneinfo']
running build
running build_py
copying lib\matplotlib\mpl-data\matplotlibrc -> build\lib.win32-2.6\matplotlib\m
pl-data
copying lib\matplotlib\mpl-data\matplotlib.conf -> build\lib.win32-2.6\matplotli
b\mpl-data
running build_ext
building 'matplotlib.ft2font' extension
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W
3 /GS- /DNDEBUG -IC:\Python26\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include -I. -IC:\Pyth
on26\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\include\freetype2 -I.\freetype2 -IC:\Python26\
include -IC:\Python26\include\Stackless -IC:\Python26\PC /Tpsrc/ft2font.cpp /Fob
uild\temp.win32-2.6\Release\src/ft2font.obj
ft2font.cpp
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\INCLUDE\xlocale(342) : warning C
4530: C++ exception handler used, but unwind semantics are not enabled. Specify
/EHsc
c:\python26\lib\site-packages\matplotlib-0.98.5.2\src\ft2font.h(13) : fatal erro
r C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ft2build.h': No such file or directory
error: command '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\cl.exe"' fa
iled with exit status 2
I should mention that this is Python 2.6
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