[PyKDE] Installation problems with PyQT on Windows (DLL Load Failed)

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 20 December 2002 3:19 am, Feroze Mohamed Arif wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded the latest binary for PyQT (PyQt-win-nc-3.5.exe) and installed
> it with Python v2.2.2.  The installation went off smoothly without any
> problems.  I pointed the installation to d:\python22 and the qt module
> files and libsip.dll got installed under D:\Python22\Lib\site-packages
> while the examples and tutorials got installed under D:\Python22\PyQt. 
> When I tried running the examples (aclock.py) I got the following trace
> back:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "D:\PYTHON22\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
> line 301, in RunScript
>     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
>   File "D:\Python22\PyQt\Examples\aclock.py", line 4, in ?
>     from qt import *
>   File "D:\PYTHON22\lib\site-packages\qt.py", line 28, in ?
>     import libsip
> ImportError: DLL load failed: One of the library files needed to run this
> application cannot be found.
>
> As I understand it PyQT-win-nc-3.5.exe contains the SIP binary and I can
> see the libsip.dll file but there seems to be some problem.  I tried doing
> a regsvr32 libsip.dll but I got an "LoadLibrary libsip.dll failed.
> GetLastError returns 0x00000485".
>
> I am currently running on Windows 98 and have installed
> QtWin230-NonCommercial.
>
> I would appreciate it very much if someone could help me out.

On which drive is Qt installed?

On which drive are you running the example from?

Phil