Apr '09
25

Been working on the django side of the site and needed to install PIL. But after I built it I released that it doesn’t come with JPEG support :(

*Update - Follow these instructions on Snow Leopard: http://breadandpepper.com/blog/2009/oct/2/django-development-snow-leopard/

*** JPEG support not available

Here are the steps for getting jpeg support on the mac, this should work for linux too, I have no idea what to do on that other OS…

  1. Download the jpeg source: http://www.ijg.org/.
  2. Unzip the file.
  3. In terminal cd into the directory: cd jpeg-6b/
  4. Then type: ./configure
  5. Then make
  6. I had some trouble installing the library because some directories did not exist. Make sure the following directories exist, and if they don’t use sudo mkdir to create them:
    • /usr/local/include
    • /usr/local/lib/
  7. Once these directories exists you should be ready to install: sudo make install

— JPEG support ok

2 Responses to “JPEG Support in PIL”

  1. Mattb says:

    Do away with JPEG and use PNG’s for a better world.

  2. dave says:

    Yes PNG FTW!!

    But you got to support jpeg :)

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