[Image-SIG] Installing PIL on Windows

[Gary Speer]

Thank you all for trying to clear this up.

Lennart cleared the fog concerning how to reposition the PIL files from a PY
install where Zope will see them.

Fredrik explained why precise major/minor revision matching is important.
Specifically PIL 1.1.2's _imaging.pyc will not execute under Python 2.2.1 as
it was compiled under Python 2.1.1  Here's the mismatch:

The current Zope release is 2.5.1, built on Python 2.2.1.
Lennart pointed me to the latest pythonware bundle, PY21 that is PIL 1.1.2
on Python 2.1.1
The latest PIL release is 1.1.3 which says it is tested and will run on
Python 2.2x
Unfortunately the PIL 1.1.3 at Pythonware is uncompiled and I do not have a
C compiler.

So now I clearly understand I have to precisely ask if anyone has PIL 1.1.3
compiled for windows as it seems that is the only version that will execute
correctly in the current version of Zope.  The 1.1.3 download has all of the
ancillary files, but not the compiled files like _imaging.pyc

Fredrik - Perhaps you might update the FAQ to point out that this is the
most likely cause of error for new users until Pythonware releases a
compiled version of 1.1.3

Hope somehone can help.  Thank you for the great explainations!
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@torped.se>
To: "Gary Speer" <gspeer@cortech.org>; "Eric Woudenberg"
<eaw@connactivity.connactivity.com>
Cc: <rmccain@gvpi.com>; <image-sig@python.org>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL on Windows


> From: "Gary Speer" <gspeer@cortech.org>
> > Do you have any experience with Zope?  As best I can tell as a relative
> > Newbie to Python and Zope is that Zope only seems to execute in the
> context
> > of the python installation it created at installation and so it doesn't
> seem
> > to find resources such as PIL.  I have no idea where that 'python path'
is
> > set or how to modify it except as the directory it is launched from.
The
> > issue is that Zope only sees the instance of Python that it installed
> > itself.  I tried clean installing Python first and Zope over it, forcing
> it
> > to the same directory names, but the links to PIL still end up broken by
> > this approach
> > Any thoughts?
>
> If you are installing PIL to use with Zope, place _imaging.pyd and the PIL
> directory in lib\python under the Zope directory.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Lennart Regebro
> Torped Strategi och Kommunikation AB
> http://www.easypublisher.com/
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@pythonware.com>
To: <rmccain@gvpi.com>; <image-sig@python.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2002 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL


> Robert wrote:
>
> > I for some reason cannot seem to install the python Image Library on my
> > computer. I have tried every solution that I have seen or could think of
> > with no luck. Well I can actually get the PIL to install and import, its
> > just that when I try to work on an image I get the error that the python
> > imaging c library is not installed.
>
> I've added a brief description of what might cause this
> problem to the PIL faq:
>
>     http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/faq.htm
>
> (summary: PIL is no different from any other extension;
> your interpreter needs to find the PIL files, and on Windows,
> the _imaging extension will only work for the python major/
> minor version it was built for)
>
> </F>
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