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

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 17.05.09 21:47:53, Michael Held wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 17.05.09 13:51:13, Michael Held wrote:
> >> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >>> 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).
> >>>
> >> thanks for your infos. I installed the non-commercial Qt4.5 binaries
> > 
> > Missed that part, the binary package of Qt4.5 is of course compiled with
> > MinGW. However you can simply fetch the source package and build it
> > yourself with MSVC.
> > 
> >> actually mingw is fine for me, or are there serious implications I do
> >> not know about?
> > 
> > Well, its only slightly less broken than MSVC6 wrt. some C++ constructs and
> > its horribly slow too.
> 
> thanks for the infos. so you say
> PyQt-Py2.6-gpl-4.5-snapshot-20090504-1.exe was build with mingw?

I don't know, haven't used PyQt for quite some time and never really the
snapshots. I was talking about Qt, not PyQt binaries. As PyQt4 binary
packages also contain Qt itself, it could be that Phil builds them with
MSVC.

> anyway, I am fine with mingw32, but tried to find out why my py2exe dist
> is not transferable to another PC.
> I switched to this binary snapshot of PyQt 4.5 but py2exe is now
> struggling to find MSVCP90.DLL...

That indicates that indeed the snapshot was built with MSVC9.

Andreas

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