[Image-SIG] Re: libjpeg and friends: binary distributionfor Windows?]

[Steve Holden]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> 
> 
>>>what binaries are you talking about?  the pythonware.com/effbot.org
>>>kits are fully self-contained (as dumpbin can tell you).
>>>
>>></F>
>>
>>Hmmm, in that case I'd appreciate some help discovering why my PIL
>>installation won't run. When I run
>>
>>    python -c "import _imaging"
>>
>>in a command interpreter window I get a dialog box entitled "python.exe
>>- Unable To Locate DLL" containing the alert "The dynamic link library
>>libjpeg.dll could not be found in the specified path: (followed by a
>>long list of path directories). When I dismiss the dialog, python
>>reports "ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be
>>found."
> 
> 
> there's no trace of a "libjpeg.dll" file on the machines I use to build and
> test PIL and the distribution kits, so I think I would have noticed a libjpeg
> dependency... ;-)
> 
One would certainly have thought so ... :-)

> try running
> 
>     python -vv -c "import _imaging"
> 
> and make sure that the PYD file it tries to import really is the one that comes
> from the PIL installation kit, and not some old cygwin or activestate (or what-
> ever) build.
> 
That nailed it. It was importing _imaging.pyd from C:\Python23\DLLs, and 
there was also an _imagingft.pyd in there - I hadn't realized those 
files were in the PIL directory (duuuh). Deleting the DLLs copies fixed 
the problem (though I can't help wondering what I might have broken).

Thanks for your help. My code is now properly portable again.

regards
  Steve
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