[PyKDE] PyQt 3.1, Win2000, and MSVC runtime library

[greg Landrum]

Wow!  This cleared up all the problems I was having with PyQt.  Thanks Paul!

-greg

At 07:26 AM 4/11/2002, Paul Felix wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to pass on a fix I made to the Windows build of PyQt/Sip 3.1 using
>MS VC++.
>
>My build configuration is as follows:
>
>   NT 4.0 SP 5
>   VC++ 6.0 SP 5
>   PyQt/Sip 3.1
>   Qt 3.0.3
>   Python 2.2.0
>
>After building PyQt, I was able to run the PyQt examples on my NT 4.0 box, but
>when I ran the examples on a Win2000 box, they crashed at various times (most
>often when exiting the app).  Here is the Win2000 configuration I tested:
>
>   Windows 2000 Professional
>   5.0.2195 SP 2
>
>While investigating, I noticed that the build was mixing static (MT) and DLL
>(MD) versions of the C runtime library:
>
>   Package     C runtime option
>   -------     ----------------
>   Python         -MD
>   Qt             -MD
>   PyQt/Sip       -MT
>
>This is a no-no according to our friends at Microsoft:
>
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccore98/HTML/_core_.2f.md.2c_2f.ml.2c_2f.mt.2c_2f.ld.asp
>
>I went back to the PyQt/Sip build and changed the Makefile.win32-msvc files,
>replacing -MT with -MD.  Now the examples run fine for me on both NT 4.0 and
>Win2000.
>
>This is a head scratcher, because I know some of you are running on Win2000
>without problems -- maybe you made this fix too.
>
>Paul