Installing Python Imaging Library (PIL) on Snow Leopard with updated Python 2.6.2

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I have a fresh install (started with a wiped drive) of Snow Leopard with the developer tools installed during the Snow Leopard installation.

I then installed Python 2.6.2, replacing the Snow Leopard default python 2.6.1. I've tried to install PIL by:

  1. easy_install
  2. pip
  3. downloading source and running python setup.py build manually.

All yield the same error (link to pip log: http://drop.io/gi2bgw6). I've seen others have had success installing PIL using the Snow Leopard default python 2.6.1, so I'm not sure why I'm having so much trouble getting it to work with 2.6.2.

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12 Answers

The problem I ran into was that PIL was being compiled against PowerPC architecture (-arch ppc).

Do this before setup/build/compile:

export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386"

(Assuming you're on i386)

user_1903880

10.6 Snow Leopard install PIL without the hassle and without keeping MacPorts :)

Step 1: Install MacPorts
Step 2: sudo port install py26-pil
Step 3: mv /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/* /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/
Step 4: Uninstall MacPorts

Best of both worlds?

user_1589470

On OS X Lion with current XCode and no gcc-4.0 I'm able to get around the missing stdard.h error by setting the follow environment variables:

export CC="/usr/bin/llvm-gcc-4.2"

I can't say I understand why this works.

By the way this works for the Pillow fork of PIL too.

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