[PyQt] PyQt for 64-bit Python on Windows

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:45:45 -0600, Dave Doty <ddoty at iastate.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:
> 
>> > make[1]: Entering directory
>> > `/cygdrive/c/Users/ddoty/Downloads/python/sip-4.7.9/siplib'
>> > gcc -c -O2 -w -DUNICODE -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -I.
>> > -Ic:\programs\Python26\include -o siplib.o siplib.c
>> > siplib.c:16:20: Python.h: No such file or directory
>>
>> That would appear to be the first problem to solve - your Python
>> installation doesn't appear to be complete.
>>
>> Phil
> 
> 
> The file c:\programs\Python26\include\Python.h does exist, with read
> permissions enabled, so I assumed that the inability to find it was
either
> an error in the build scripts, or my own misunderstanding of how to use
> them.

Are you using Cygwin or just MinGW? I think Cygwin has given lots of
problems in the past.

> In either case, a pre-compiled binary distribution of PyQt for
> Windows
> running 64-bit Python would allow me to skip all this. Is there such a
> package?

Not to my knowledge.

> Is it necessary to get one if I cannot build PyQt (or SIP) on my own? Or
> should it be possible to use this distribution:
> 
> 
>
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Downloads/PyQt4/PyQt-Py2.6-gpl-4.4.4-2.exe
> 
> with 64-bit Python 2.6.1, through some other configuration trick?

I doubt it.

Phil