[Image-SIG] ActiveState Python PIL on Win32 needs "jpeg62.dll"

[Riccardo Trocca]

>Hi PIL folks.  I hope this is the right place to ask this.  I'm a PIL
>newbie; I just downloaded the ActiveState Python binaries onto my Win98
>machine and everything seems fine, except PIL doesn't run.  When I do
>>>>  import _imaging
>I get an error about a missing DLL (of course it doesn't say what it is).
>
>Firing up FileMon to see what it is, it seems that it's looking along
>sys.path for a file called "jpeg62.dll" which I don't have anywhere on my
>system.  Is this because (a) I should have jpeg62.dll?  Where should I get
>it?  (b) _imaging.pyd is looking for it mistakenly?  How can I fix it?  or
>(c) I'm an idiot, and just have to adjust some config file somewhere?
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated,
>
>thanks,
>
>-- Gary Oberbrunner (garyo@oberbrunner.com)
>
>
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I didn't have so much time to use ActivePython, but the first time I 
installed it with PIL I noticed that it was not working. Instead of 
spending time trying to fix it I simply downloaded a precompiled 
version of PIL with some patch for Win32 in the Download section of 
piddle.sourceforge.net.
I just substituted the original PIL dir with the new one and 
everything worked smoothly, or, at least, I could run the demo 
scripts of PIL.
A short note: the PIL binary on the piddle website, doesn't contain 
the demo scripts, but you can use those included in the original PIL 
dir that comes with ActivePython.

Not the most elegant solution, but it worked for me without any problem.
If there is something better let me know.
-- 

Riccardo Trocca
rtrocca@libero.it
Laboratory of Musical Informatics
DIST
University of Genoa