[PyQt] Incorrect file names in sip-4.19 configure script for Windows

[Patrick Stinson]

Yes. Some of the paths are different because there is no install step that produces a python dist for hierarchy - that I know of. Everything occurs in place in the source build dir and in different locations. For what it’s worth, I just built with PCBuild/build.bat as described here: https://cpython-core-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_cpython_windows.html

Though some of these problems also have to do with using a debug build of python.

> On Apr 24, 2020, at 12:16 AM, Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On 24/04/2020 06:50, Patrick Stinson wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I ran into a few problems with configuring, building, and installing
>> sip-4.19.19 script on windows using python built from source (with
>> PCBuild\build.bat). Here they are along with my workarounds:
>> SIP
>> - It expects site-packages\PyQt5 to already exist when passing
>> —sip-module=PyQt5.sip. I worked around this by patching configure.py
>> to create the dir if it doesn’t exist (see attached diff)
>> - For a python built from source, configure.py expects pythonxx.lib or
>> pythonXX_d.lib to be in PYTHON_ROOT\\libs. I hacked configure.py to
>> use PYTHON_ROOT\\amd64 instead (see attached diff).
>> - As with sip above, I hacked configure.py to include the '_d' debug
>> suffix for each entry in installed.txt so that `nmake install` would
>> pick up the correct file names (see attached diff).
>> PYQT5
>> - The include paths need to include both PYTHON_ROOT\include for
>> Python.h and PYTHON_ROOT\PC for pyconfig.h. I worked around this by
>> manually appending PYTHON_ROOT\PC to include_paths just before the
>> call to generate_module_makefile().
>> - As describe above with sip, for a python built from source,
>> configure.py expects pythonxx.lib or pythonXX_d.lib to be in
>> PYTHON_ROOT\\libs. I hacked configure.py to use PYTHON_ROOT\\amd64
>> instead (see attached diff).
>> - As with sip above, I hacked configure.py to include the '_d' debug
>> suffix for each entry in installed.txt so that `nmake install` would
>> pick up the correct file names  (see attached diff).
>> Am I making any big mistakes here that would make life easier?
> 
> Are you saying that a Python installation built from source behaves differently than one installed from python.org?
> 
> Phil
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