[PyQt] Pyqtdeploy - build pyqt app on Windows

[Mạnh Tú Vũ]

Yes, it is PyQt 5.13. 

I can see in the __init__.py from PyQt5, it try to find the .dll file instead of .lib file. Is there anyway to workaround it?

Thanks
Tu

> On 22 Aug 2019, at 11:12, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On 22/08/2019 10:54, Mạnh Tú Vũ wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>> I have already built qt-everywhere with pyqtdeploy-sysroot and I can
>> see those .lib files in my sysroot-win-32/qt/lib. Is that not enough
>> or I have to build something else?
> 
> Are you using PyQt v5.13? Support for that hasn't been added to pyqtdeploy yet.
> 
> Phil
> 
>>> On 22 Aug 2019, at 10:28, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>>> On 22/08/2019 10:04, Mạnh Tú Vũ wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I'm trying to build my PyQt application on Windows and I'm not sure that I
>>>> understand the way it works. I have built my application into a .exe binary
>>>> file but when I was trying to run, it threw an exception of:
>>>> C:\boatswain\boatswain\build-win-32>release\Boatswain.exe
>>>>> Log file:
>>>>>> C:\Users\manhtu\AppData\Local\theboatswain\boatswain\Logs\boatswain.log
>>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 983, in _find_and_load
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 668, in _load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 638, in _load_backward_compatible
>>>>> File ":/boatswain/__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 983, in _find_and_load
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 668, in _load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 638, in _load_backward_compatible
>>>>> File ":/boatswain/main.py", line 22, in <module>
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 983, in _find_and_load
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 983, in _find_and_load
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 668, in _load_unlocked
>>>>> File "bootstrap.py", line 638, in _load_backward_compatible
>>>>> File ":/PyQt5/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
>>>>> File ":/PyQt5/__init__.py", line 33, in find_qt
>>>>> ImportError:
>>>>> unable to find Qt5Core.dll on PATH
>>>> I suspect, the Qt application was trying to find Qt5Core.dll library,
>>>> however, I see in the Makefile.Release, we had already
>>>> included  sysroot-win-32\qt\lib\Qt5Core.lib into the application. So, why
>>>> do we need the .dll library again?
>>>>> LIBS          = /LIBPATH:C:\boatswain\boatswain\sysroot-win-32\lib
>>>>> /LIBPATH:C:\boatswain\boatswain\sysroot-win-32\l... C:\boatswain\boatswain\sysroot-win-32\qt\lib\Qt5Core.lib
>>>>> ...
>>>> I have tried to run the app using Qt command line and see it worked.
>>>> Because the required libraries are already included in the PATH env. So,
>>>> does it mean that I have to distribute the .dll libraries with my
>>>> application as well?
>>> If you haven't built a static version of the Qt libraries then yes.
>>> Phil
>