[Eric] Eric 4.0.0 windows QT tools problem

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Montag, 11. Juni 2007, Laurent Bonny wrote:
> Hi every one,
>
> I can confirm what the other laurent said. To install Eric4 on windows, you
> have to add a line in qmake.conf
> 'QMAKE_CFLAGS_THREAD ='

Did you try to install the Qt4 executable installer (like 
qt-win-opensource-4.3.0-mingw.exe)? I am using this and it worked without 
problems. However, I compiled PyQt, sip and QScintilla2 myself because the 
installers usually are missing the pyqtconfig.py file.

> In the same way I was unable to make everything work without compiling
> myself PyQT, SIP and qscintilla (the exe package you can download for PyQT
> doesn't seems to be recognize by Qscintilla2, and through it Eric4).
> I know this should be a message sent on Qscintilla list, but I though this
> could be usefull too for futur Eric4 windiws users.
> Keep up the good work, and thanks for your great work
> Laurent
>
> 2007/6/10, Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de>:
> > On Donnerstag, 7. Juni 2007, Laurent Dufréchou wrote:
> > > Hello Detlev,
> > >
> > > I've just tried your last 4.0.0 eric release. That was a bit hard
> > > (under windows) but finally it works!
> > > (I had to add 'QMAKE_CFLAGS_THREAD =' in qmake.conf(!).)
> > >
> > > I'm trying to naviguate around the menu and I've found a bug.
> > > Well... don't know if it's a bug, perhaps a misuse of the GUI...
> > > If i want to launch designer via Extras/Tools/Designer... I've got this
> > > message:
> > > Window title: Process Generation Error
> > > Text: Could not start Qt-Designer.
> > > Ensure that it is available as bin\designer.exe
> > >
> > > The fact is that designer.exe is in my path variable and also I've set
> > > QT4DIR to e:\QT\4.3.0\ (i've also tried e:\QT\4.3.0\bin). No way to
> > > make it launch designer...
> > >
> > > :(
> > >
> > > Moreover at work, I've selected Export Qt4 Directory entered above in
> > > preferences/QT menu and the application won't start anymore.
> > > I've launch eric4-config.bat and hopefully it restored the situation!<-
> > > Is this OK?
> > >
> > > Any idea on how to make tools work under windows??
> >
> > That is a bug on win32. It will be fixed in the next release. If you have
> > Qt3
> > installed next to Qt4, should have two designer actions/menu entries. One
> > for
> > the Qt4 variant and one for the Qt3 one. However, due to the bug in
> > UserInterface.py, the Qt4 related designer action is not generated. This
> > just
> > happens on win32.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Detlev
> > --
> > Detlev Offenbach
> > detlev at die-offenbachs.de
> >
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