Here's what I had to do to build PIL for a virtualenv on Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1751455
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Nate Sanders <[email protected]> wrote: > Installing on Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit: > > I had to... > > to get jpeg support in PIL: > apt-get install libjpeg8-dev (not libjpeg62-dev) > > to get png support in PIL (libz.so is not where it expects it to be): > sudo ln -s /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so /usr/lib > > I believe 64-bit Ubuntu will have libz.so in an also-wrong-but-different > place for PIL. > > There are still some other things (Freetype, LittleCMS, TkInter) that I > don't have working in PIL ....could be similar to above where you need > alternate library or just symlinks. > > -- Nate > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Leo Shklovskii <[email protected]>wrote: > >> If you're on windows, go grab the precompiled binaries. Compiling PIL >> from scratch on windows is a huge PITA. >> >> http://www.pythonware.com/**products/pil/<http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/> >> >> -- >> --Leo >> >> >> James Cooper wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> We'll be using PIL for the coding problem tonight. You might want to >>> have it installed. If you have pip, it's simply: >>> >>> pip install pil >>> >>> If you're on a Mac, and you get some crazy compile error, you might try >>> this: >>> >>> export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386 -arch x86_64' >>> pip install pil >>> >>> cheers >>> >>> -- James >>> >>> -- >>> >>> James Cooper >>> http://blog.bitmechanic.com/ >>> >> >
