Mac osx lion, virtualenv, pil install - gcc error

Question

I have just completed the xcode install, mac osx lion. Upon completion I attempted to install PIL in a virtual enviroment using pip, easy_install and home brew. All three are er

Answer 1

After spending hours on the same problem this is what it worked for me:

Download the PIL source code and cd into it. Check which version of gcc do you have by:

gcc
i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1: no input files

Then I force to apply this version by:

export CC=gcc-4.2

And select the correct architecture (in my case 32bit):

export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386"

For 64 use export ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64"

Then build and install:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install