Saturday, October 24, 2009

Building PIL-1.1.6 on Mac OS X 10.6

I was trying to get the Python Imaging Library installed on Snow Leopard. (This is for a "Python from python.org" environment separate from Apple standard and Macports.) I read a number of posts on the net, but it took a combination of ideas I found to arrive at a solution that worked.

Prerequisites: Install Xcode from the Snow Leopard disk. As you do that, make sure you check the box that enables continued 10.4 SDK support.

Then:

$ curl -O http://effbot.org/downloads/Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
$ tar zxf Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz
$ sudo bash
# cd Imaging-1.1.6
# export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i686"
# export CFLAGS="-arch i686"
# python setup.py build
# python setup.py install
# exit

I don't like the cheap trick ("sudo bash"), but I found I needed the ARCHFLAGS and CFLAGS settings for both the build and install steps.

See also Rich Atkinson's use of pip on his blog post. That might be all you need.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

Thanks, I had the exact same problem heh.

darthflatus said...

Howdy! Thanks for this info, I too have been trying for weeks with an exhaustive list of combinations.

I tried this and it doesn't work for me due to the following:
ld: in /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib, file is not of required architecture for architecture ppc

oddly when building PIL, it uses the build directory of: build/lib.macosx-10.3-fat-2.6

and I get a warning about:
/usr/include/AvailabilityMacros.h:108:14: warning: #warning Building for Intel with Mac OS X Deployment Target < 10.4 is invalid.

do I need to first muck with the lib/python2.6/config/Makefile settings?

Anonymous said...

I am not that experienced with command line, and have read countless posts on how to solve it. This is the only one that worked. Thanks!

Unknown said...

Running OS X 10.6.4 on a 64 bit system (Macbook Pro), and I was also getting the Deployment Target < 10.4 error. I solved it by having Xcode installed and running the following:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" CFLAGS="-arch x86_64" python setup.py install

(In the PIL source's directory)

Chris said...

Thank you! I appreciate the post. :)

Jesse said...

Thanks for the post, and thanks Shadow for the update - with shadows added note, I was able to get this working!

Шолеров Владислав said...

Respect to U! It really works!

pilover said...

Thanks my lord.. it even work for PIL-1.1.7 with python 2.6