[PyKDE] pyQt on windows

[Phil Thompson]

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 4:40 am, Keith Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this is for both PyQt and PyKDE, which implies it's linux
> oriented, but I've got a question about distributing pyQt on windows.
> I'm a linux user, and I've got a pyQt application that I would like a
> friend (who's on windows) to be able to run. I can't seem to figure out
> how he can run it, though. He installed python and PyQt-3.7, which I
> assume does not install the qt libraries. He proceeded to install the Qt
> windows evaluation version (3.0.?) available at trolltech.com, which
> made him jump through a number of loops related to visual studio, and
> which I don't think he should have had to do. Even then, 'import qt' in
> idle complained that it couldn't find the required dll. So I'm wondering
> how I can go about this... it certainly can't be as hard as installing
> the Qt development product on any computer that wants to use it. (By the
> way, this is totally a noncommercial application.) I was wondering if
> anyone had any comments about this.

Tell your friend to download the non-commercial version of Qt - not the 
evaluation version. This is based on Qt v2.3, so your application needs to be 
portable between Qt v2 and Qt v3.

Phil