[Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Python Imaging Library on Mac OS X

[Ritesh Nadhani]

Thanks for the pointer. I will work on it and hopefully somebody else
can point me to the right direction if I dont find it myself :)

On 7/23/07, Daniel Lord <daniellord at mac.com> wrote:
> It's been some time since I worked through this for 2.4, but IIRC,
> one has to modify the PIL make to ensure it finds libjpeg after you
> have installed it.
>
> How I did that I cannot recall just now off the cuff, so when I have
> time at some point I can try to dig it up.
> But in the mean time, if you are industrious and read the build notes
> for PIL,
> those pesky details might still be in there somewhere and clue you in
> to set it up properly so libjpeg is found by PIL on the build.
> If even I was able to solve it, I have no doubt that, with
> application, you will also and in a shorter time than I.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Jul 23, 2007, at 9:22 PM, Ritesh Nadhani wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > So I want to install Python Imaging Library on my Mac OS X. I followed
> > the tutorial steps by step. When I executed:
> >
> > IOError: decoder jpeg not available
> >
> > I got the error. Further Googling pointed me to the website:
> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/macosx/install/libjpeg
> >
> > I downloaded the libtool updated linked there and unzipped it. It says
> > that: Then, you need to update the libtool file in the source.
> >
> > Though I have no clue what does that mean. Unzipping it gave me two
> > file ltconfig and ltconfig.sh. Running the sh file gave me libtool
> > version mismatch error. Doing a search of system I found that there is
> > another ltconfig in /usr/share/libtool. Assuming that this file needs
> > to be updated with the one provided in the zip, I copied the original
> > ltconfig.sh to ltconfig.sh.bak and copied the new one to the folder.
> >
> > The I followed the same steps as mentioned up there and the
> > compilation and installation seems to have gone correctly.
> >
> > But again when I do selftest.py, I get:
> >
> > Exception raised:
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "./doctest.py", line 499, in _run_examples_inner
> >     exec compile(source, "<string>", "single") in globs
> >   File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >   File "./selftest.py", line 22, in _info
> >     im.load()
> >   File "PIL/ImageFile.py", line 180, in load
> >     d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig)
> >   File "PIL/Image.py", line 375, in _getdecoder
> >     raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name)
> > IOError: decoder jpeg not available
> > 1 items had failures:
> >    1 of  57 in selftest.testimage
> > ***Test Failed*** 1 failures.
> > *** 1 tests of 57 failed.
> >
> > Moreover, sudo python setup.py build_ext -i, give me:
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > PIL 1.1.6 BUILD SUMMARY
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > version       1.1.6
> > platform      darwin 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13)
> >               [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)]
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --- TKINTER support ok
> > --- JPEG support ok
> > --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok
> > --- FREETYPE2 support ok
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To check the build, run the selftest.py script.
> >
> > So it seems that the libraries were correctly found.
> >
> > --
> > Ritesh
> > http://www.riteshn.com
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