Installing PIL with JPEG support on Mac OS X

python django python-imaging-library libjpeg
user1034697 picture user1034697 · Dec 6, 2011 · Viewed 36.2k times · Source

I posted a question before regarding this subject, and read other ones posted before, but none has successfully solved my problem.

I am trying to install PIL on Mac OS X Lion, as I need it for a Django application. I also need JPEG support, so I need a JPEG decoder as well.

I have tried to download the libjpeg sources and compile them, and install PIL, but it doesn't recognize the directory.

So what I would like, and I believe this exists somewhere, is a method to install both PIL and libjpeg with a package installer, without the need for any compilation whatsoever!

Thank you in advance for every reply.

Answer

AnnW picture AnnW · Aug 30, 2012

In our virtualenv we found all we needed to do was:

pip uninstall PIL
brew install libjpeg
pip install PIL

which is simpler than some of the above and may be enough for others with this problem too. Although there was an xcode warning on the brew and a setup.py package warning on the reinstall of PIL, all the tests that previously failed with jpeg decode errors successfully ran after just the quick action above.

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