Installing PIL on OS X Snow Leopard w/Xcode4 (no PPC support)

Question

Xcode4 dropped PPC support, so when I try building PIL, it throws hate:

Bens-MacBook-Air:Imaging-1.1.7 bkeating$ python setup.py build
running buildrunning b         


        

Answer 1

The solution has nothing to do with PIL but rather setting gcc's ARCHFLAGS:

ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" sudo pip install PIL

Answer 2

ARCHFLAGS doesn't seem to get passed into sudo. I had to do

sudo -s

then ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" pip install PIL to make it work.

Answer 3

A better way to solve this issue, in my opinion, would be to edit your ~/.profile or /etc/bashrc and add the line:

export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64"

Will save messing around with any future installations (I've just had to do this for installing lots of Perl modules in CPAN)!

Answer 4

Just to help others... I had to use ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" before building imaging with my Snow Leopard/XCode 4 system i.e. having "-arch i386" in their stopped it working for me.