[Eric] Re: Simplified installation?

[techtonik]

Phil Thompson <phil at ...> writes:

> 
> On Tuesday 19 June 2007 8:31 am, techtonik wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > What makes Eric so unpopular is the absence of all-in-one installer. Some
> > of Eric prerequisites are not available for Windows platform in compiled
> > form (QScintilla, PyQT). QScintilla is distributed in source form only
> > requiring additional dependencies like SIP to be built. PyQT has binaries,
> > but they are for Python 2.5 only, so the same compilation problem is
> > actual. That means you have to download MinGW, gcc and maybe other packages
> > required for compilation. You can easily spend an hour or even two manually
> > installing Eric - searching for required files, compiling dependencies and
> > loooking for workarounds for common problems, such as "ImportError: No
> > module named sipconfig". I do not mind when J2EE monster takes two hours to
> > complete the installation, because at least it makes it in a background.
> >
> > Right now I doubt that Eric installation is possible at all on Windows.
> > There is only one version of QSintilla component available from official
> > site and it's of version 2.1 that is claimed to be API incompatible with
> > 2.0 required for Eric.
> >
> > For most of the users, who just want a convenient Python editor this
> > installation procedure is overwhelming. I wonder what makes it so hard to
> > redistribute a complete binary installer for windows built for Pythons 2.4
> > and 2.5?
> 
> Please read recent posts on the subject.
> 
> Phil
> 

Even after reading recent posts I've decided to build Eric myself. After two and
a half hours of downloading all prerequisites and struggling with building and
installing sip from MSYS/MinGW I've stuck with compiling PyQt.

Any ideas what these error messages below are about?


C:\WorkSpace\Eric IDE\Prerequisites\PyQt-win-gpl-4.2>configure.py -w -p win32-g++
Determining the layout of your Qt installation...
C:\Tools\Qt4\qmake\qmake.exe -o qtdirs.mk qtdirs.pro
QMAKESPEC has not been set, so configuration cannot be deduced.
Error processing project file: qtdirs.pro
Error: C:\Tools\Qt4\qmake\qmake.exe failed to create a makefile. Make sure you
have a working Qt v4 qmake on your PATH or use the -q argument to explicitly
specify a working Qt v4 qmake.

C:\WorkSpace\Eric IDE\Prerequisites\PyQt-win-gpl-4.2>set QMAKESPEC=win32-g++


C:\WorkSpace\Eric IDE\Prerequisites\PyQt-win-gpl-4.2>configure.py -w -p win32-g++
Determining the layout of your Qt installation...
C:\Tools\Qt4\qmake\qmake.exe -o qtdirs.mk qtdirs.pro
Could not find mkspecs for your QMAKESPEC(win32-g++) after trying:
        C:/iwmake/build_mingw_opensource\mkspecs
Error processing project file: qtdirs.pro
Error: C:\Tools\Qt4\qmake\qmake.exe failed to create a makefile. Make sure you
have a working Qt v4 qmake on your PATH or use the -q argument to explicitly
specify a working Qt v4 qmake.