[PyKDE] PyQt4 GPL for Windows Binary Available

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 12 January 2006 1:41 pm, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> 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?

I don't see why not. In fact that might make it slightly easier to create a 
PyQt4-including-Qt4 binary.

Phil