From 413e11f5e2f5adad4f7c10577e72aa1657bf92f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonas Camillus Jeppesen <jonascj@camillus.dk>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 18:02:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #14316: Improve error message for kiwisolver
 import error (DLL load failed)

---
 lib/matplotlib/__init__.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
index 5be7c2a311ac..341d8017d0f0 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py
@@ -184,6 +184,11 @@ def compare_versions(a, b):
 
 
 def _check_versions():
+
+    # Quickfix to ensure Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable
+    # DLLs are loaded before importing kiwisolver
+    from . import ft2font
+
     for modname, minver in [
             ("cycler", "0.10"),
             ("dateutil", "2.1"),