[PyQt] Static PyQt Initialization

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:20:34 -1000, McKay Davis <mckay.cpp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My setup: Windows 32-bit, Visual Studio 2008, PyQt 4.4.4, Qt 4.4.3, sip
> 4.7.9.
> 
> I need to build SIP, Python and PyQt statically.  I can get everything to
> build and link but I cannot figure out how to correctly initialize PyQt
so
> that Python finds it as a builtin module.
> 
> This message:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.pyqt-pykde/14422/focus=14425
> 
> covers what I need except for the exact syntax of the call to
> PyImport_ExtendInittab()
> 
> I duplicated what this poster tried (w/ the same results):
> 
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=pykde&m=116959724322512&w=2
> 
> I added the following code to my python interpreter executable:
> 
> extern void initsip(void);
> extern void initQtCore(void);
> extern void initQtGui(void);
> struct _inittab pyqt_inittab[] = {
>   {"sip", initsip}
>   {"PyQt4.QtCore", initQtCore},
>   {"PyQt4.QtGui", initQtGui}
>   {0, 0}
> };
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   PyImport_ExtendInittab(pyqt_inittab);
>   Py_Initialize();
> ...
> 
> The python interpeter executable builds and links, but running the
> PyQt/examples/tutorial/t1.pyw example script returns the error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "t1.pyw", line 7, in <module>
>     from PyQt4 import QtGui
> ImportError: cannot import name QtGui
> [13350 refs]
> 
> Can anybody please provide me the correct inittab entries for a static
> PyQt?

>From memory (so take with a pinch of salt) Python doesn't handle builtin
packages (as opposed to modules) without a patch. I don't know if that
patch has made it to current versions of Python. Check the archives of this
mailing list.

Phil