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

[Pierre Raybaut]

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> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 14:49:33 +0200 From: Thorsten Kampe 
> <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> Subject: [PyQt] Re: PyQt 4.4.2 GPL 
> installer / missing DLL To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com Message-ID: 
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> * Python(x,y) (Sat, 24 May 2008 09:33:00 +0200)
>> > Phil Thompson a écrit :
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>>> > > 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.
>>> > >
>>>       
>> > in order to run MATLAB with a specific PATH set up?
>> > If that's what you meant, I really can't do that for two reasons.
>>     
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> I had this problem, too (just not with Matlab). I copied the DLLs to the 
> site-packages/PyQt4 folder. Not a clean solution but it works. Another 
> possibility would be to /move/ the exes and DLLs to the pyd folder. But 
> then Qt Assistant might not find the help files.
>
> Thorsten
Thanks Thorsten, good to know.
If it works, why not doing it directly in the PyQt4 GPL installer, Phil?
In fact, that would be great if the "add directory to PATH" thing would 
not be necessary any more, just like before (with the 4.3.3 release).

Pierre