[PyQt] Supplying PyQt5 via PyPI

[Darren Dale]

Also
http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/52501-Gotcha-warning-Qt5-source-build-on-Windows-with-Visual-Studio
: "Qt 5 is now officially released, but binaries are not available for
Visual Studio 2008. Therefore, you must build it from source."

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://docs.python.org/2/extending/windows.html#building-on-windows :
> "Notice that you should use the same version of VC++that was used to build
> Python itself."
>
> http://siomsystems.com/mixing-visual-studio-versions/
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstruktion at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Darren,
>>
>> Hmm.. I've been using 5.3 with Python 2.7 for the past year or so,
>> compiled using vs2012 initially, but lately vs2013. Are you sure this is
>> relevant?
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcus
>>
>> On 20 September 2014 12:55, Darren Dale <dsdale24 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstruktion at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I’ve uploaded an initial version, compiled using VS2013x64 for Python
>>>> 2.7 x64 under Windows 8.1.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I overlooked this the first time through. You are mixing the MSVC2013
>>> runtime with that of MSVC2008, which is used to compile py26 and py27. This
>>> will lead to problems. And if you do compile with MSVC2008, it is very
>>> difficult to build Qt5 with qtwebkit. I submitted a patch here a while back
>>> that will make it possible to do so, but I never was able to figure out how
>>> to build ICU with MSVC2008, so I gave up trying to build conda packages for
>>> PyQt5 on py27.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> *Marcus Ottosson*
>> konstruktion at gmail.com
>>
>
>
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