Installing PIL (Python Imaging Library) in Win7 64 bits, Python 2.6.4

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I'm trying to install said library for use with Python. I tried downloading the executable installer for Windows, which runs, but says it doesn't find a Python installation. Then tried registering (http://effbot.org/zone/python-register.htm) Python, but the script says it can't register (although the keys appear in my register).

Then I tried downloading the source package: I run the setup.py build and it works, but when I run setup.py install it says the following:

running install
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_imaging' extension
error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

What can I do?

UPDATE (May 2014): Like said by some comments and answers, PIL is currently unmantained, and the way to go now is to use Pillow (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/, pip install pillow).

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I found a working win7 binary here: Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages It's from Christoph Gohlke at UC Irvine. There are binaries for python 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 , 3.1 and 3.2 for both 32bit and 64 bit windows.

There are a whole lot of other compiled packages here, too.

Be sure to uninstall your old PILfirst. If you used easy_install: easy_install -mnX pil
And then remove the egg in python/Lib/site-packages

Be sure to remove any other failed attempts. I had moved the _image dll into Python*.*/DLLs and I had to remove it.

user_4269840

Compiling PIL on Windows x64 is apparently a bit of a pain. (Well, compiling anything on Windows is a bit of a pain in my experience. But still.) As well as PIL itself you'll need to build many dependencies. See these notes from the mailing list too.

There's an unofficial precompiled binary for x64 linked from this message, but I haven't tried it myself. Might be worth a go if you don't mind the download being from one of those slightly dodgy file-upload sites. Other than that... well, you could always give up and instead the 32-bit Python binary instead.

user_189360

I think I had a similar problem in the past, with another python library. I believe that it was a windows permission issue. Try adding "Users" to your python directory, and give them full access.

user_680340

Make sure you have the Visual C++ Redistributable package installed on your machine.

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