Installing PIL 1.1.6 on OS X Leopard (10.5)

March 31st, 2008 at 4:51 pm (Programming)

What a headache. After a couple of hours of googleing, it looks like this is the way you should install PIL on OS X:

Download libjpeg: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
At the time of this writing the libjpeg homepage is down.

Next compile it:

tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.sub .
cp /usr/share/libtool/config.guess .
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static
make
sudo make install
sudo ranlib /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a

Edit: If sudo make install fails, mkdir the directories that make is trying to install the files into. There are a couple of man directories and a bin directory.

Now download PIL: http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

and compile it

tar xvzf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
cd Imaging-1.1.6
sudo python setup.py install

Whew… what a mess.

5 Comments

  1. Greg Sadetsky said,

    September 25, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Thanks!

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    September 29, 2008 at 2:09 pm

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  3. Bear said,

    November 7, 2008 at 10:27 am

    Thanks a lot !
    It worked just perfectly.

  4. Bret said,

    January 10, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    Thanks a lot! BTW, the new link for Imaging is http://effbot.org/media/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz

  5. Zach Holmquist said,

    June 18, 2009 at 10:05 pm

    Jason! I <3 You for posting this!

    After getting errors, and venting this to you, you led me to the light . . . before make install for the libjpeg :

    sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib
    sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1/

    To make sure the install worked, in Terminal:
    python
    import Image

    If no errors! Success!

    Thanks again dude, you are the best!

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