Issues installing for Apple Silicon

8/12/2024

I've had some problems with installing MVTB in editable form. From wherever the toolbox repo has been installed

pip install -e .

will give a lot of error messages associated with building freetype. There is a good discussion of that here.

The work around is to create a file setup.cfg

[libs]
system_freetype = True

and create an envariable MPLSETUPCFG that is the full path to that file.