[SciPy-User] FreeImage <-> numpy IO wrappers

[Zachary Pincus]

> Just thought of another question:
>
> So FreeImage doesn't even depend on libjpeg !?
> I'm asking because I remember problems with installing (building!?)
> PIL on OS-X where jpg wasn't working because of some problem related
> to libjpeg ...
> I don't remember the exact circumstances - but if FreeImage didn't
> have that dependency it would be another thing _less_ to worry about.

It doesn't depend on any external libraries, but uses libs jpeg, tiff,  
png, and z internally -- they're included with the source and compiled  
as part of the build process.