I tried to update my #pelicanssg site this afternoon with my new macOS setup with a virtual python environment (both uv and pipenv) but pyPillow can’t “see” the homebrew installed libraqm.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

#homebrew #uv #raqm #pillow

I have tried a few things I found in search like:

- Adding a .env to the root folder pointing to the homebrew lib location
- adding exports to the .zshrc file
- using pipenv vs .venv

The “goal” is to keep the virtual environment vs installing everything to the machine python and have a functional pelicanssg site again.

I still haven't figured this out, but I have #pelican-photos working without watermarks for now. It will at least allow me to start updating the site and if I get it figured out I can always re-process the photos.

#pelicanssg #macos #python #pillow #libraqm #homebrew #uv