[PyKDE] PyQt4 GPL for Windows Binary Available

[Giovanni Bajo]

Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:

>>> at http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Downloads/PyQt4/
>>>
>>> You will also need to install the Qt binary from Trolltech at
>>> http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/windows.html. You also need a copy
>>> of MinGW (for some DLLs) but the Qt installer will download and install
>>> this for you.
>>>
>>> Another little project for somebody would be to identify all the
required
>>> and useful files from the Qt installation so that they can be added to
>>> the PyQt4 binary and avoid the 40M Qt download.
>>
>> Is this compatible with a bulk Python 2.4, or do we need a MinGW-compiled
>> Python?
>
> Standard Python 2.4.
>
> I think MinGW has been fixed so that you don't need to go through the
> previous hassle of creating a MinGW version of the Python DLL. At least I
> haven't seen any problems so far.


Thanks. Another question.

There is an unofficial patch to compile Qt4 with MSVC, which is becoming
very widespread (see also: http://psi-im.org/wiki/Compiling_Qt4_on_Windows).
Since I assume that PyQt4's build system will support MSVC for the benefit
of the commercial version of Qt, will it be possibile to build also PyQt4
GPL version with MSVC?
-- 
Giovanni Bajo