[PyQt] Building PyQtChart

[Phil Thompson]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 08:18:57 -0400, Mark Mordeca
<mark.mordeca at prosensus.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> I have downloaded a 30-day trial of Qt Charts and want to build
PyQtChart
> for it, however the build is not working:
> 
> 
> 
> c:\QtEnterprise\PyQtCharts\PyQtChart-commercial-1.3>This is the
commercial
> versi
> 
> on of PyQtChart 1.3.
> 
> QtCommercialChart 1.3.0 is being used.
> 
> PyQt 4.9.5 is being used.
> 
> Qt v4.8.3 free edition is being used.
> 
> SIP 4.14.1 is being used.
> 
> The QtChart package will be installed in
> 
> C:\Python27_64\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4.
> 
> The QtChart .sip files will be installed in C:\Python27_64\sip\PyQt4.
> 
> The QtChart module is being built with generated docstrings.
> 
> Generating the C++ source for the QtChart module...
> 
> sip: Usage: sip [-h] [-V] [-a file] [-c dir] [-d file] [-e] [-g] [-I
dir]
> [-j #]
> 
> [-m file] [-p module] [-r] [-s suffix] [-t tag] [-w] [-x feature] [-z
file]
> [fi
> 
> le]
> 
> *Error: Unable to create the C++ code.*
> 
> * *
> 
> I don’t particularly understand what the problem is as all I get is this
> mysterious error.  I am building it with Visual Studio 2008 for 64bit. 
I
> haven’t had problems like this building PyQt.  Any help would be
> appreciated because I would like to see what the capability of PyQtChart
is
> before my trial runs out.

Try running configure.py with the --verbose flag to see what's going on.

Phil