install pillow - error: ld returned 1 - windows

Question

(Many more undefs...)
build\temp.win-amd64-3.4\Release\_imaging.o:_imaging.c:(.text+0x55a6): undefined
 reference to `_imp__PyUnicode_FromString'

build\temp.win-amd64-3.4\Release\_imaging.o:_imaging.c:(.text+0x55bb): undefined
 reference to `_imp__PyDict_SetItemString'

c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: build\temp
.win-amd64-3.4\Release\_imaging.o: bad reloc address 0x14 in section `.data'

collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

To me it seems like some linking error, but I have no idea how to correct it, I've tried few things already, but unfortunately no working solutions yet. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Command line output from "pip install pillow" using MinGW.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

From experience, that way lies only madness.

I'd recommend downloading a prebuilt windows binary

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My guess for this particular error is that your compiler does not match the one python 3.4 was built with - if you're upgrading from a working 2.7 setup, that would make sense, since python switched from MSVC 2008 to MSVC 2010.

I was able to get it to compile with the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 compiler, but with neither JPEG or PNG support.