Development changes ------------------- Windows build ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Previously, when building the ``matplotlib._png`` extension, the build script would add "png" and "z" to the extensions ``.libraries`` attribute (if pkg-config information is not available, which is in particular the case on Windows). In particular, this implies that the Windows build would look up files named ``png.lib`` and ``z.lib``; but neither libpng upstream nor zlib upstream provides these files by default. (On Linux, this would look up ``libpng.so`` and ``libz.so``, which are indeed standard names.) Instead, on Windows, we now look up ``libpng16.lib`` and ``zlib.lib``, which *are* the upstream names for the shared libraries (as of libpng 1.6.x). For a statically-linked build, the upstream names are ``libpng16_static.lib`` and ``zlibstatic.lib``; one still needs to manually rename them if such a build is desired. Packaging DLLs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Previously, it was possible to package Windows DLLs into the Maptlotlib wheel (or sdist) by copying them into the source tree and setting the ``package_data.dlls`` entry in ``setup.cfg``. DLLs copied in the source tree are now always packaged; the ``package_data.dlls`` entry has no effect anymore. If you do not want to include the DLLs, don't copy them into the source tree.