[PyQt] PyQt 4.5 snapshot build (windows and mac)

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Sun May 17 11:02:07 BST 2009


On 17.05.09 09:13:45, Magnus Benjes wrote:
>> I was not aware that PyQt goes with mingw32 (what about VC9?). using
>> mingw which came with Qt4.5 I could build SIP and PyQt (still compiling)
>> successfully. this article was really helpful:
>> http://diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/BuildPyQt4Windows
> There is a build in binary incompatibility between the comercial version 
> of Qt and the open source version on Windows. The open source version is 
> built with Mingw and the comercial version is built with VC. If you want 
> to use Qt with VC you have to buy a comercial licence.

No you don't. Both the GPL and LGPL version of Qt4 build just fine with
MSVC 2005 or later (IIRC MSVC is supported in the GPL version since 4.3).

Andreas

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