[reportlab-users] Installing on Mac OSX

[Andrea Riciputi]

Thanks a lot Aaron,
I'll try it out tomorrow morning. Hope for the best. I'll let you know.

Cheers,
  Andrea

On 28 May, 2009, at 22:36, Aaron Barlow wrote:


> 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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