[reportlab-users] Installing on Mac OSX

[Aaron Barlow]

Andrea,

It's been a little while since I've done either, but here goes. I am  
assuming that you have the Mac OS X developer tools installed.  
Otherwise, none of the rest will work.

freetype2 installs from source without any problems and if I remember  
correctly doesn't require any dependencies. It's default location is / 
usr/local and should be fine to leave that there.

To get the most of PIL, it needs the libjpeg library which you should  
be able to download and compile from source. It should also install  
to /usr/local by default.

If you've made it this far, the rest is pretty easy. To install PIL  
and ReportLab is a matter of downloading the source and running python  
setup.py in their respective source folders.

--
Aaron

On May 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Andrea Riciputi wrote:


> Hi Aaron,

> installing FreeType and PIL from sources scares me a little bit.  

> Both of them are quite big packages and I can imagine they also have  

> many dependencies in turn. Could you be so kind to give me some more  

> details about the procedure?

>

> TIA,

> Andrea

>

> On 28 May, 2009, at 22:17, Aaron Barlow wrote:

>

>> Andrea,

>>

>> I've installed Reportlab on several Mac, but you can't use  

>> easy_install do to because of some of the required dependencies  

>> (i.e. FreeType and PIL). You'll have better success installing  

>> ReportLab and its dependencies from source.

>>

>> --

>> Aaron

>>

>> On May 28, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Andrea Riciputi wrote:

>>

>>> Hi all,

>>> I'd like to give ReportLab a try, but I'm having some trouble  

>>> installing it on my Mac. Maybe someone here can help me to figure  

>>> out to get it done.

>>>

>>> At the moment I'm using the Python distribution provided by Apple  

>>> on OSX 10.5, i.e. Python 2.5.2. When I try to install ReportLab  

>>> via easy_install I get the following error:

>>>

>>>> ld: library not found for -l_renderPM_libart

>>>> ld: library not found for -l_renderPM_libart

>>>

>>> I'm not sure, but I think this issue can be related to the lack of  

>>> freetype2 from OSX. Is freetype2 mandatory to get ReporLab up and  

>>> runnning? Can anyone give me some hints or a recipe about how to  

>>> install ReportLab on OSX?

>>>

>>> Thanks in advance,

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