Building PIL on OS X: Snow Leopard

Posted by Brad Montgomery 2 years, 2 months ago (4 comments)

1. Install lib jpeg using homebrew (which is super-aweseome!)

   brew intall jpeg

   .This installs the library into

   /usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/7



2. Install libfreetype the old-fashioned way (./configure, make, sudo make install). I used freetype-2.1.10.pre-20050511.


3. Download, unpack PIL (I used Imaging-1.1.6). I had to make the following changes to setup.py

   FREETYPE_ROOT = "/usr/local"
   JPEG_ROOT = ("/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/7/lib", "/usr/local/Cellar/jpeg/7/include")



4. Then, build PIL:

   python setup.py build_ext -i



5. If the build works without any errors, you can run the tests:

   python selftest.py

   which should yield the following: 57 tests passed.


6. (optional) I like to use virtualenv, so I activate that:

   workon myproject



7. Install PIL:

   python setup.py install

import Image
im = Image.open("/path/to/pretty/picture.jpg")
im.show()