Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL on Windows
Hi Gary, I haven't been following this thread closely, so I don't know if this helps, but if you install the PY21 (Python 2.1) binary package from Python labs that has a working PIL included in it. Installation executable is here: http://www.pythonware.com/downloads/py21-20010906.exe Executable Python binary ends up in /py21/python.exe The py21 installation doesn't effect any other Python installations you may have on your machine. Rick "Gary Speer" writes:
Hi Robert - I understand your frustration installing PIL. I have been trying off and on for a couple months. The Pythonware site since March has said the Windows binary will be posted 'later this month'. I requested an installer from the Image group and the file I received hangs at the point that the installer wants the Python path identified. Per the readme, the source files on Pythonware reportedly require a C+ or VB compiler that I do not have access to. I have followed the threads in this group and as best I can tell, people are installing an older Zope (2.3.3) to use the older binaries and some have been dropping the incremental patches and revisions over time as the development programmers announce them. No one has shared their log of what files were added in what order. I, too, don't know how to do a new Win32 setup of Zope2.5.1 and its included Python release and have PIL available to Zope. I have no clue how to determine where Python sets its path to know what directories are in it and to add the PIL directory to it.
It would be great if someone could post a how-to readable by newbies that specifically linked to the current versions of all needed files instead of another endless search of 'somewhere in the sourceforge site'. I inquired once with Python Labs and their response is 'buy a support package' for $2K and we'll point you to the latest files. Until I can demo this stuff, I can't get a client to finance 'an interesting technology'.
I wish I could help. Its extremely frustrating. If I get more clues, I will certainly share them with you.
Regards, Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@torped.se> To: <rmccain@gvpi.com>; <image-sig@python.org> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL
From: <rmccain@gvpi.com> I for some reason cannot seem to install the python Image Library on my computer. I have tried every solution that I have seen or could think of with no luck. Well I can actually get the PIL to install and import, its just that when I try to work on an image I get the error that the python imaging c library is not installed. I tried importing this library with no luck. I put this under the dll directory, in just about every PIL directory and no luck. I really need some help on this one. Maybe the exe distribution will help me as that is the only version I could ever get to work on my computer. I am currently running python 2.2, on a windows 98 os. Please let me know if you have any solutions to my problem.
Thanks,
-Robert M. McCain
You should use the windows download (make sure you have the one for Python 2). Place the DLL files somewhere in the python path, and place the PIL directory in the same place.
That should be all.
Best Regards
Lennart Regebro Torped Strategi och Kommunikation AB
_______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
Thank you Eric - Do you have any experience with Zope? As best I can tell as a relative Newbie to Python and Zope is that Zope only seems to execute in the context of the python installation it created at installation and so it doesn't seem to find resources such as PIL. I have no idea where that 'python path' is set or how to modify it except as the directory it is launched from. The issue is that Zope only sees the instance of Python that it installed itself. I tried clean installing Python first and Zope over it, forcing it to the same directory names, but the links to PIL still end up broken by this approach Any thoughts? Thanks again, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Woudenberg" <eaw@connactivity.connactivity.com> To: "Gary Speer" <gspeer@cortech.org> Cc: <rmccain@gvpi.com>; <image-sig@python.org>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL on Windows
Hi Gary,
I haven't been following this thread closely, so I don't know if this helps, but if you install the PY21 (Python 2.1) binary package from Python labs that has a working PIL included in it.
Installation executable is here: http://www.pythonware.com/downloads/py21-20010906.exe
Executable Python binary ends up in /py21/python.exe
The py21 installation doesn't effect any other Python installations you may have on your machine.
Rick
"Gary Speer" writes:
Hi Robert - I understand your frustration installing PIL. I have been trying off and on for a couple months. The Pythonware site since March has said the Windows binary will be posted 'later this month'. I requested an installer from the Image group and the file I received hangs at the point that the installer wants the Python path identified. Per the readme, the source files on Pythonware reportedly require a C+ or VB compiler that I do not have access to. I have followed the threads in this group and as best I can tell, people are installing an older Zope (2.3.3) to use the older binaries and some have been dropping the incremental patches and revisions over time as the development programmers announce them. No one has shared their log of what files were added in what order. I, too, don't know how to do a new Win32 setup of Zope2.5.1 and its included Python release and have PIL available to Zope. I have no clue how to determine where Python sets its path to know what directories are in it and to add the PIL directory to it.
It would be great if someone could post a how-to readable by newbies that specifically linked to the current versions of all needed files instead of another endless search of 'somewhere in the sourceforge site'. I inquired once with Python Labs and their response is 'buy a support package' for $2K and we'll point you to the latest files. Until I can demo this stuff, I can't get a client to finance 'an interesting technology'.
I wish I could help. Its extremely frustrating. If I get more clues, I will certainly share them with you.
Regards, Gary
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lennart Regebro" <lennart@torped.se> To: <rmccain@gvpi.com>; <image-sig@python.org> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [Image-SIG] Installing PIL
From: <rmccain@gvpi.com> I for some reason cannot seem to install the python Image Library on my computer. I have tried every solution that I have seen or could think of with no luck. Well I can actually get the PIL to install and import, its just that when I try to work on an image I get the error that the python imaging c library is not installed. I tried importing this library with no luck. I put this under the dll directory, in just about every PIL directory and no luck. I really need some help on this one. Maybe the exe distribution will help me as that is the only version I could ever get to work on my computer. I am currently running python 2.2, on a windows 98 os. Please let me know if you have any solutions to my problem.
Thanks,
-Robert M. McCain
You should use the windows download (make sure you have the one for
Python
2). Place the DLL files somewhere in the python path, and place the PIL directory in the same place.
That should be all.
Best Regards
Lennart Regebro Torped Strategi och Kommunikation AB
_______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
From: "Gary Speer" <gspeer@cortech.org>
Do you have any experience with Zope? As best I can tell as a relative Newbie to Python and Zope is that Zope only seems to execute in the context of the python installation it created at installation and so it doesn't seem to find resources such as PIL. I have no idea where that 'python path' is set or how to modify it except as the directory it is launched from. The issue is that Zope only sees the instance of Python that it installed itself. I tried clean installing Python first and Zope over it, forcing it to the same directory names, but the links to PIL still end up broken by this approach Any thoughts?
If you are installing PIL to use with Zope, place _imaging.pyd and the PIL directory in lib\python under the Zope directory. Best Regards Lennart Regebro Torped Strategi och Kommunikation AB http://www.easypublisher.com/
On *nix, the python executable that is installed in a Zope binary install is in the 'bin' directory. So you can execute it by specifying it explicitly by path.. (otherwise you might get the regular installed version of python) I found this helpful in getting the PIL installation on my Linux zope installation to work.. (it allowed me to run the setup.py scripts properly by including the Zope python in my path environmental variable and specifying the path to python and the python executable on the command line..) A similar situation probably exists for Windows.. Not having any experience at all running Zope under Windows, I wouldn't be able to help you much beyond that.. But you should be able to get somewhere with this info, it was very helpful to me and not documented anywhere.... -Chris Beaumont
Thank you Eric - Do you have any experience with Zope? As best I can tell as a relative Newbie to Python and Zope is that Zope only seems to execute in the context of the python installation it created at installation and so it doesn't seem to find resources such as PIL. I have no idea where that 'python path' is set or how to modify it except as the directory it is launched from. The issue is that Zope only sees the instance of Python that it installed itself. I tried clean installing Python first and Zope over it, forcing it to the same directory names, but the links to PIL still end up broken by this approach Any thoughts? Thanks again, Gary
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