[PyQt] [sip] Can sip-4.13 be compiled with mingw32 ?

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:34:55 +0100, Hervé Autret
<Herve.Autret at angers.inra.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's my 1st message here, so I'm sending greetings to everyone there,
> 
> I would like to compile sip-4.13 with mingw32 but I could not yet.
> I use python-2.7 and gcc-4.6.1
> 
> I've edited configure.py as I could not manage to pass it an option that

> enables the correct platform. In set_defaults(), I've tried both 
> "win32-g++" and "gnu"
>      default_platform = "win32-g++"
>      sys.platform = default_platform
> 
> In both cases the sip.exe file is built, but the siplib fails.
> 
> Anyway, the makefile tries to build the lib sip.so instead of sip.dll, 
> and I think this is not the best choice for further use in the native 
> windows environnement, as programs not aware of mingw mays want to link 
> some code against the sip.dll.
> 
> Could you tell me which options are to be passed to mingw in order to 
> make the sip.dll yielded ?
> 
> Best regards

Have you read and followed...

http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/sip4/installation.html#configuring-for-mingw

Phil