[PyKDE] quirks of sip-2.5 on Windows

Phil Thompson phil at river-bank.demon.co.uk
Fri Sep 21 01:59:40 BST 2001


Gerard Vermeulen wrote:
> 
> Phil,
> 
> In trying to port my PyQwt extensions to Windows and stumbled on the
> following quirks:
> 
> (1) 'sip -V' returns 'unknown'

It's a feature because the Windows build environment doesn't use
autoconf etc.

> (2) sip on Windows uses \ instead of / as path-separator in the
> fully qualified filenames in the #include and #line directives.
> MSVC does not accept this and I have to process the sip generated code
> to fix this (easy, of course, but...).

I'm confused - can you send me a simple example? sip doesn't do anything
with path separators and I build PyQt for Windows using MSVC with no
problems.

Phil




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