Installing PIL Python Imaging Library in Win7 64 bits Python 2 6 4

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I m trying to install said library for use with Python  I tried downloading the executable installer for Windows  which runs  but says it doesn t find a Python installation  Then tried registering  http   effbot org zone python-register htm  Python  but the script says it can t register  although the keys appear in my register    Then I tried downloading the source package  I run the setup py build and it works  but when I run setup py install it says the following   running install running build running build py running build ext building   imaging  extension error  Unable to find vcvarsall bat   What can I do   UPDATE  May 2014   Like said by some comments and answers  PIL is currently unmantained  and the way to go now is to use Pillow  https   pypi python org pypi Pillow   pip install pillow

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Make sure you have the Visual C   Redistributable package installed on your machine

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I found a working win7 binary here  Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages    It s from Christoph Gohlke at UC Irvine    There are binaries for python 2 5  2 6  2 7   3 1 and 3 2 for both 32bit and 64 bit windows   There are a whole lot of other compiled packages here  too   Be sure to uninstall your old PILfirst  If you used easy install  easy install -mnX pil And then remove the egg in python Lib site-packages  Be sure to remove any other failed attempts   I had moved the  image dll into Python    DLLs and I had to remove it

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Just got this error msg on my 32 bit Windows - I read the FAQ here   http   pythonware com products pil faq htm and this sort of indicates that Windows is funny   Looked again at install pg and downloaded the Windows executable for Python26   Python Imaging Library 1 1 7 for Python 2 6  Windows only  - and the  imaging module gets installed when you run this  Should solve problem   So you can t just do the python setup py install routine on   Python Imaging Library 1 1 7 Source Kit  all platforms   November 15  2009

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Compiling PIL on Windows x64 is apparently a bit of a pain   Well  compiling anything on Windows is a bit of a pain in my experience  But still   As well as PIL itself you ll need to build many dependencies  See these notes from the mailing list too   There s an unofficial precompiled binary for x64 linked from this message  but I haven t tried it myself  Might be worth a go if you don t mind the download being from one of those slightly dodgy file-upload sites  Other than that    well  you could always give up and instead the 32-bit Python binary instead

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Pillow is new version  PIL-1 1 7 win-amd64-py2 x installers are available at   http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs  pil

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I was having the same problem so I decided to download the source kit and install it according to how you posted above      Downloaded Source Kit Opened command prompt on that folder and typed python setup py build Then I typed python setup py install   It worked perfectly   Now  some notes  when I typed python setup py build  I saw that Microsoft Visual Studio v9 0 C compiler was being used to build everything   So probably it s something with your compiler not correctly configured or something     Anyways  that worked with me so thank you

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I ve just had the same problem  with Python 2 7 and PIL for this versions  but the solution should work also for 2 6  and the way to solve it is to copy all the registry keys from   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Python   to  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Wow6432Node Python   Worked for me  solution found at the address below so credits should go there  http   effbot slinkset com items Adding Python Information to the Windows Registry

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If you installed a win64 python  you need a win64 PIL  The official PIL download site only has win32  as far as I can tell  The win32 installer will not see your 64-bit python installation   No amount of tinkering with permissions or redistributables will fix this  You could use the win32 python instead  the Win64 python is mutant anyhow  Microsoft decided that C  long  should be 32 bits in their 64-bit world  so python  ints  are only 32 bits in Win64 python    Since sizeof long   sizeof ptr  in win64  porting C extensions can be problematic  and will not be the same as porting them to linux 64  E g  it seems that Win64 numpy is experimental broken whereas linux64 numpy has been fine for years  My recommendation is if you use win64  stick with win32 python  If you want 64-bit python use linux

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http   www lfd uci edu  gohlke pythonlibs   press contrl F  type Pillow-2 4 0 win-amd64-py3 3 exe  then click and downloadd the 64 bit version   Pillow is a replacement for PIL  the Python Image Library  which provides image processing functionality and supports many file formats  Note  use from PIL import Image instead of import Image  PIL-1 1 7 win-amd64-py2 5 exe PIL-1 1 7 win32-py2 5 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win-amd64-py2 6 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win-amd64-py2 7 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win-amd64-py3 2 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win-amd64-py3 3 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win-amd64-py3 4 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win32-py2 6 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win32-py2 7 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win32-py3 2 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win32-py3 3 exe Pillow-2 4 0 win32-py3 4 exe

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I think I had a similar problem in the past  with another python library   I believe that it was a windows permission issue   Try adding  Users  to your python directory  and give them full access

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