Installing Pillow with Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Question

I\'m trying to install Pillow following the instruction:

http://pillow.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#mac-os-x-installation

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Answer 1

Had this problem in Nov 2015. Easiest solution for me was to install a precompiled binary of pillow using wheels:

pip install wheel
pip install --use-wheel pillow

Answer 2

1. Reinstall X11 from XQuartz.org
2. Install the latest XCode

3. Install the command line tools:

   xcode-select --install

Worked for me on mavericks

Answer 3

I confirm that following these steps I can install Pillow on Mavericks 10.9.2 with XCode 5

1:

brew install libtiff libjpeg webp littlecms

2: go to here https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.3.1 downalod the zip file and unzip it.

3: open a Terminal window and go to Pillow-2.3.1 folder in Terminal.

4: these two lines are extremely important because they will ignore the errors during installation of Pillow, without these two lines the setup cannot be finished (I am using python 2.7 so you may need to change whatever version you use):

sudo sed -i '' -e 's/-mno-fused-madd//g' /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/_sysconfigdata.py
sudo rm /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/_sysconfigdata.pyc

5: run command

sudo python setup.py install

Done!

Answer 4

Installing earlier version of Pillow worked for me

pip uninstall pillow
pip install Pillow==2.5.0

Boom Ya Baby!

running MacOSX 10.8.5 from PIL import Image now throws no errors.

Answer 5

Follow these steps

1. update xcode on qppstore
2. open the terminal an type:
   1. xcode-select --install
   2. su
   3. export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
   4. export CPPFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
   5. pip install pillow

Answer 6

a friend told me how to fix this:

1. sudo su -
2. export CFLAGS=-Qunused-arguments
3. pip install Image
4. python
5. from PIL import Image

by https://github.com/moskytw