[Pythonmac-SIG] Building portable PIL

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 1, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Drew McCormack wrote:

> I am writing an article for MacDevCenter in which I want to perform 
> image processing via Xgrid. I started off trying to use imagemagick, 
> but that became a nightmare. Then I remembered PIL, and so far things 
> are going OK, but I'm not there yet.
>
> What I need is a copy of PIL which has no dependencies other than 
> those in a standard Mac OS X system. I tried first installing libjpeg 
> using fink, and then using MacPython for PIL, but the PIL formed 
> depends on the libjpeg.dylib file.
>
> I then tried compiling PIL myself, changing the paths to /sw/lib and 
> /sw/include, as stated in the instructions. This compile seems OK, 
> until you try to read a jpeg file, and then it says the decoder is not 
> available, or something like that. Checking the _imaging.so library 
> with otool indicates that the jpeg dylib is not linked, which is good, 
> but apparently neither is the static library.
>
> So I'm a bit stuck. Does anyone know how I can generate a version of 
> PIL that can deal with jpeg, but does not depend on libjpeg.dylib?

The libjpeg in my PackageManager repository doesn't have any external 
dependencies:
	http://undefined.org/python/pimp/

-bob