PIL on Macbook Pro + 10.6 Snow Leopard + libjpeg FINALLY!

Posted On: June 30, 2011 at 11:49 a.m. by Neum

Download the latest libjpeg from http://www.ijg.org/files/ (I used jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz.) Then download the latest PIL“). Note that since I wanted to be able to use a global install of PIL in any virtualenv I was working with I ran these instructions without a virtualenv active.

In terminal cd to the download directory and run the following to install libjpeg.

	tar -zxvf jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
	cd jpeg-8c/
	export CC="gcc -arch i386"
	./configure
	make
	sudo make install

Now install PIL. Just to make sure it picks up our libjpeg correctly we’ll edit setup.py with the path to libjpeg.

	tar -zxvf Imaging-1.1.7.tar.gz

Edit setup.py and change the line

	JPEG_ROOT = None
	to below
	JPEG_ROOT = libinclude( "/usr/local" )

Now lets install.

	python setup.py build
	sudo python setup.py install

That works for me on my new Macbook Pro 64bit running Snow Leopard. Finally!