[PyQt] problem with qextscintillaglobal.h when installing PyQT-3.7.16

[Phil Thompson]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:02:20 +0000, Nicola Caon <nicola.caon at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to install PyQT-3.17.16, and I obtain the error:
> qextscintillaglobal.h could not be found in
>
/usr/pkg/SIEvarios/QScintilla/i686/QScintilla-gpl-2.3.2/qt-3.3/include/Qsci

That's not an error - it's just saying that you don't have QScintilla v1
installed so it won't generate the Python bindings for it.

> (The PC has Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4, on a 32-bit CPU).
> 
> Now the above directory is where I installed from source QScintilla
> 2.3.2 (I do not
> have write permissions in /usr/lib/qt-3.3)
> This directory contains many header files, however
> qextscintillaglobal.h is nowhere
> to be found.
> 
> I checked a previous installation of QScintilla, version 1.65, and in
this
> one
> qextscintillaglobal.h is indeed among the header files.
> 
> Thus I compared the header files in the old and new QScintilla releases,
> and it
> looks like to me that the header files have been renamed, what before was
> qextscintillaapis.h is now called qsciapis.h, qextscintillaglobal.h is
now
> qsciglobal.h, and so on.
> 
> So perhaps PyQT code should be modified in order to use the appropriate
> header
> files for the latest QScintilla release, or at least this problem
> should be noted in the
> installation instructions along with possile solutions.

The Python bindings for QScintilla v2 are included with QScintilla itself.

Phil