Image import fails on macOS 10.13 with Pillow 9.1.0

[AlphonsG]

What did you do?

Tried running from PIL import Image after installing Pillow from pip.

What did you expect to happen?

Import to work.

What actually happened?

Error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/alphons/.venv/rainbow-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 132, in <module>
    from . import _imaging as core
ImportError: dlopen(/Users/alphons/.venv/rainbow-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PIL/_imaging.cpython-38-darwin.so, 2): Symbol not found: ____chkstk_darwin
  Referenced from: /Users/alphons/.venv/rainbow-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PIL/.dylibs/libtiff.5.dylib (which was built for Mac OS X 11.0)
  Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
 in /Users/alphons/.venv/rainbow-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/PIL/.dylibs/libtiff.5.dylib

What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?

• OS: macOS 10.13 High Sierra (64 bit)
• Python: 3.8.10
• Pillow: 9.1.0

Note: import works using Pillow 9.0.1

[radarhere]

Hi. We've changed a few settings in our wheels since January, so this could be a number of different things. I've put together a Pillow 9.1.0 wheel for your system the way we did it for Pillow 9.0.1 - Pillow-9.1.0-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip. Would you be able to test it and see if that works?

If it does work, would you be willing to test out some more variations on that wheel, so that we can figure out exactly what the problem is? macOS 10.13 is not a system that I have easy access to.

If that doesn't work, and you're looking for things to try immediately, you can install Pillow from source - python3 -m pip install Pillow --no-binary :all:

[hugovk]

Note that macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) is now 16 months EOL and two versions out of support, so strictly speaking not supported by Pillow.

I also recommend upgrading to macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or later to get security updates from Apple.

[AlphonsG]

Hello @radarhere

I've put together a Pillow 9.1.0 wheel for your system the way we did it for Pillow 9.0.1 - Pillow-9.1.0-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip. Would you be able to test it and see if that works?

Yeah that worked:

If it does work, would you be willing to test out some more variations on that wheel, so that we can figure out exactly what the problem is?

Yeah I can do that

[radarhere]

Thanks. See what you make of these.

1. before_auditwheel.zip
2. after_auditwheel.zip
3. before_turbo.zip
4. after_turbo.zip

[AlphonsG]

1. before_auditwheel.zip

Worked

2. after_auditwheel.zip

Worked

3. before_turbo.zip

Failed, with previous error.

4. after_turbo.zip

Failed, with previous error.

Also, just a note, the name of files 1 and 2 after download is the same, didn't check if the files themselves are different or not though.

[radarhere]

Ah, ok. I've got it now. The problem was python-pillow/pillow-wheels#265, and I've created python-pillow/pillow-wheels#282 to fix this for the next release.

This wheel works, yes? Pillow-9.1.0-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip

[AlphonsG]

This wheel works, yes? Pillow-9.1.0-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip

Yes that wheel works, thanks very much for fixing!

[wulph111]

you can install Pillow from source - python3 -m pip install Pillow --no-binary :all:

Installing from source worked for me. Thanks for looking into this, even though official support ended. Not everyone wants to update their systems, for various reasons. I always appreciate a path to keep legacy stuff working.

[radarhere]

In case more users come to this issue, here are wheels for other Python versions.

Pillow-9.1.0-cp37-cp37m-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip
Pillow-9.1.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip
Pillow-9.1.0-cp310-cp310-macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl.zip