[PyQt] Re: PyQt 4.4.2 GPL installer / missing DLL

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 23 May 2008 6:47:11 pm Pierre Raybaut wrote:
> About this missing DLL issue, the main difference between the 4.3.3 and
> 4.4.x Windows installer releases seems to be about the .dll management.
> Apparently, since 4.4.1 release, for example, there is not only a
> QtCore.pyd file but also a QtCore4.dll and so on. Hence the new "add to
> path" installer feature, for Windows to find the QtCore4.dll. The problem
> is that MATLAB for example is also using a QtCore4.dll (which is built with
> MSVS2005, hence the missing MSVCP80.dll error), and Windows find the MATLAB
> directory first when searching the PATH environment variable... so, PyQt is
> currently not compatible with MATLAB for example, which is quite a serious
> problem for me and a lot of scientific users I know. Unless you have a
> solution to this PATH conflicting issue?

Just add a .bat file around one of them with a specific PATH set up.

Phil