[PyQt] Dev setup on windows

[Phil Thompson]

On 21 Feb 2019, at 5:19 pm, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> How are others developing pyqt apps with sip extensions on windows? I have done this many ways the last 15 years, but it has always been a pain.
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> Developing a sip extension means you can’t use the qt/python binary installers because you don’t get the sip/python/qt headers and libs. But it is unclear how to install python/sip to a sysroot when building from source. But maybe I’m missing something from that route?

The Python binary installers include everything you need as far as Python is concerned. The Qt binary installers include everything you need as far as Qt is concerned.

Building sip (with the code generator and header file) is simply running configure.py and nmake. It is best to do this in a venv. This is my development environment.

> Or is pyqtdeploy-sysroot adequate for development as well as building a static release? I am still working through number of build issues on a vanilla install there so haven’t tried it yet.
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> Or maybe someone has a wiki outlining the dependencies and steps to get such a dev sysroot up?

Phil