[PyQt] Building PyQt using gcc in Mingw and MSys

[Phil Thompson]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2013 20:33:05 +0200, Theuns Heydenrych
<theunsheydenrych at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI
> I successfully build Sip with gcc in mingw and Msys.
> With the following command.
> 
> *python ./configure.py -p win32-g++ --platform=linux-g++-64*
> 
> It compiled and installed correctly with mingw32-make. The reason i used
"*
> --platform=linux-g++-64*" is that the *python ./configure.py **-p
win32-g++
> *generated Makefiles with windows commands for the install targets.
> 
> E.g. *@if not exist c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4 mkdir
> c:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4 *
> *
> *
> This command fail when running *mingw32-make install* does not matter if
> its executed from MSys or Windows cmd.
> But when "*--platform=linux-g++-64" *is added the generated Makefiles is
> created with bash command in the install target of the Makefiles.
> 
> E.g *@test -d $(DESTDIR)c:\Python27 || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)c:\Python27 *
> *
> *
> 
> I had a look in the mkspecs directory of Qt and in the
> mkspecs\win32-g++\qmake.conf is the following script
> *!isEmpty(QMAKE_SH) {
> **MINGW_IN_SHELL      = 1**
> QMAKE_DIR_SEP       = /
> QMAKE_QMAKE     ~= s,\\\\,/,
> QMAKE_COPY      = cp
> QMAKE_COPY_DIR      = cp -r
> QMAKE_MOVE      = mv
> QMAKE_DEL_FILE      = rm
> QMAKE_MKDIR     = mkdir -p
> QMAKE_DEL_DIR       = rmdir
> QMAKE_CHK_DIR_EXISTS = test -d
> **} else {**
> **QMAKE_COPY      = copy /y**
> QMAKE_COPY_DIR      = xcopy /s /q /y /i
> QMAKE_MOVE      = move
> QMAKE_DEL_FILE      = del
> QMAKE_MKDIR     = mkdir
> QMAKE_DEL_DIR       = rmdir
> QMAKE_CHK_DIR_EXISTS    = if not exist
> **}*
> *
> *
> 
> The Makefiles generated by *python ./configure.py* have the *QMAKE_COPY
=
> copy* commands, i want the makefiles to contain the bash commands
> *QMAKE_COPY
> = cp*. To have this the *QMAKE_SH*variable must be set.
> 
>    1. How do i do set the *QMAKE_SH* variable?
>    2. How do i know what mkspec is being used?
>    3. How do i make sure it uses *win32-g++*
>    4. Or how do i configure PyQt to generate the corrrect Makfiles for
>    Mingw and MSys?
>    5. Does PyQt's Configure.py use values from the Compiled Sip to
figure
>    out platform etc?

MSYS isn't supported. Just use MinGW and win32-g++.

Phil