>eventually you build a partially hybrid application Can't see how. I have configure log for wx, but nothing "unusual" there for me.
>have you tried using Yaakov wx libraries ? > >http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/ Thanks for suggestion, I'll have it in mind, but will try to avoid removing all installed packages and recompiling everything again if I can As intermediate workaround I patched Matplotlib wx backend source: _load_bitmap() function that passes filename to wx.Bitmap() I changed to: f = open(filename, 'rb') wx.BitmapFromImage(wx.ImageFromStream(f)) f.close() and that works fine for Matplotlib I'll wait on wxPython mailing list someone to suggest "proper" patch so that other packages work without issue -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple