Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] compiling PIL on OSX10.5

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 28 Feb, 2008, at 15:41, DavidW wrote:

Hey Ronald - I recon that way madness lies!

so I downloaded and have begun - wow - talk about speed!

btw it's quite hard to work out where exactly to get the .dmg
from - sometimes MacPython is called python (under a mac heading) etc
(went around the loop a couple of times and eventually downloaded
from http://www.python.org/download/
which instantiates as

I sent the last post and then realised I could run both a new and old python

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 22 2008, 07:57:53)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5363)] on darwin

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Executable: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/ Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python

Is that the right one?

The correct download for Python 2.5.x is from http://www.python.org/download/ . There is a dmg on pythonmac.org as well, but AFAIK that either isn't maintained or is a copy of the python.org image.

That said, OSX 10.5 ships with Python 2.5.1 as /usr/bin/python. I'd use that version unless you need the Python.org build (e.g. you're running into a bug that's fixed in 2.5.2 or you're embedding python in an application that you'll ship to OSX 10.4 users).

Anyway PIL compiles and loads, so,sorry to bother you about this -
Sometimes it's better to bite the bullet!

Ronald

Did you download and compile libjpeg as well? If you don't install that somewhere PIL will happily build and install, but without JPEG support.

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