[PyKDE] what do I need to develop qpe-Applications using PyQt?

Phil Thompson phil at river-bank.demon.co.uk
Mon May 27 09:36:00 BST 2002


"Stephan M." wrote:
> 
> I would like to use PyQt to develop Python programs for the Zaurus on my
> Mandrake 8.2 box (running KDE 3.0 & qt304)
> 
> I managed to install SIP & PyQt (./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3) and
> to do some GUI-examples, using Qt Designer 3 and pyuic.
> 
> Now I want to move on to develop for the zaurus - which needs QPEApplication
> instead of QApplication (as far as I know).
> 
> But PyQt-./configure always says:
> 
> "checking for the Qt Palmtop Environment module... no - qtpe module will not
> be built"
> 
> I downloaded qt-embedded-free-3.0.4 from Trolltech, compiled it, and tried
> PyQt-configure  --with-qt-dir=~/qt-embedded-free-3.0.4  - only with the same
> "qtpe module will not be built" -message.
> 
> Actually I tried "some" more things with no success :(((
> 
> Am I missing something here?

You'll have to get the detail of what's going on from your config.log.

One obvious problem (probably not this one) is that the Zaurus uses Qt
2.3, not Qt 3.

Phil




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