[PyQt] ANN: pyqtdeploy v2.0 Released

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Mon Jan 8 11:08:06 GMT 2018



> On 8 Jan 2018, at 10:34 am, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On 8 Jan 2018, at 9:14 am, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Phil,
>> 
>> It looks like pyqtdeploy is linking to qmake in qt_dir to the host/bin folder in sysroot. but that does not preserve the PREFIX hardcoded in the qmake exe (see below). This causes the qmake error “Cannot find configuration file .” when qmake is executed from the link, causing the python component to fail building.
>> 
>> This version of Qt was configured with -prefix to the current source folder (/Users/patrick/dev/vendor/dev/build/qt).
> 
> The Qt plugin only supports existing installations created by a standard installer (I've updated the docs to make this clear).
> 
> The reason for providing the link is to provide a fixed location for qmake (relative to the sysroot directory) for all (supported) Qt builds so that build scripts (like build-demo.py) don't have to know QT was built.

That said, there is no reason why pyqtdeploy itself needs to use that symlink as it knows where Qt is really
installed. Changed in tonight's snapshot.

Phil


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