[PyQt] Building with Visual Studio 2008

[Phil Thompson]

On Saturday 17 May 2008 17:01:12 Kevin Copps wrote:
> I am doing some experimentation with alpha3 Python 2.6 and building with
> Visual Studio 2008 C++, so I know I'm living on the edge here...
>
> I can successfully build and install release PyQt-win-gpl-4.3.3 and
> everything seems to work. But now I am also trying to build release
> PyQt-win-gpl-4.4, but I get the following error message from the linker:
>
> link /NOLOGO /DLL /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS \"/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:type=\'win32\'
> name=\'Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls\' version=\'6.0.0.0\'
> publicKeyToken=\'6595b64144ccf1df\' language=\'
> *\' processorArchitecture=\'*\'\" /INCREMENTAL:NO /OUT:QtCore.pyd
> @C:\Users\Kevin\AppData\Local\Temp\nm62CF.tmp
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> '"/MANIFESTDEPENDENCY:type=\'win32\'.obj'
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x450'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 9.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
> It looks like the LFLAGS_WINDOWS variable in pyqtconfig.py is mishandling
> quotation marks and backslashes.
>
> This is with qt-win-opensource-src-4.4.0 and sip-4.7.5. In order to get sip
> to run from within the Python install, I had to add the following line to
> the install target of the Makefile inside the sipgen directory:
>
> copy /y $(TARGET).manifest C:\Python26\$(TARGET).manifest

Hopefully fixed in tonight's snapshot.

A manifest is also generated for the sip module but it isn't installed. Is it 
needed?

Phil