PIL jpeg problems

[Jeff Shannon]

Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Jonathan Miller <notjonathan at yahoo.com> writes on Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:12:41 -0800 (PST):
> > I'm having trouble using jpegs with PIL on my ISP's server--FreeBSD
> > 4.1.1-STABLE, Python 2.0 (#4, Nov 22 2000), GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release), at
> > pair.com--a good box.
> > ...
> > IOError: decoder jpeg not available
> I once read (either here or in the Zope mailing lists) that
> JPEG support must be enabled explicitly.
>
> Please search Google to find out the details.
>
> Dieter

IIRC, PIL needs to have libjpeg available at compile-time in order to build with jpeg
support.  This shouldn't be an issue if using prebuilt binaries (as I have been), but I
don't know whether any BSD prebuilt binaries are available...

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International