Need support for pyqtdeploy

[Phil Thompson]

On 20/11/2024 10:38, Dr. Wolfgang Schilling wrote:
> Dear Phil!
> 
> Thank you for your fast response and help!
> 
> I decided to return to MSVC V16, setting it up with "vcvars64.bat" and
> now, verifying host and target architecture seem to work:
> 
> Next steps were to install a perl-Version (and add it to the windows
> PATH), SIP and PyQt-builder. Then I tried again build-demo.py (with
> option --target):
> 
> It seems to me that the script is searching for a different make file
> (could not find 'nmake' - I apologize German wording ...). I suggest,
> 'qmake.exe', which is part of the Python site packages
> (..\Python\Lib\site-packages\qt5_application\Qt\bin\qmake.exe), would
> be the correct choice, right?

No. nmake and qmake are completely different things.

> I suggest, I need to modify something in the pyqtdeploy suite now?
> Please, can you help me out how to do it? Can I expect further
> surprises?

Use the --verbose flag to see what is going on.

Phil

> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> 
>  		BETREFF:
>  		Re: Need support for pyqtdeploy
> 
>  		DATUM:
>  		Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:09:38 +0000
> 
>  		VON:
>  		Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> 
>  		AN:
>  		Dr. Wolfgang Schilling <wschill at freenet.de>
> 
> On 18/11/2024 16:49, Dr. Wolfgang Schilling wrote:
> 
>> Dear All!
>> 
>> I hope I'm doing the right thing to provide this question to you. If
>> it's not the correct contact, please let me know.
> 
> Please ask questions on the PyQt mailing list.
> 
>> I've a developped a Python/PyQt5 application which I want to deploy
>> to
>> Windows 10 64bit and Linux 32bit. I found your tool "pyqtdeploy"
>> which
>> seems to me the right approach to do so.
> 
> Other tools are available, eg. PyInstaller.
> 
>> I just started with the demo and have problems to get it up and
>> running. I've installed VisualStudio v17, implemented the
>> environment
>> variable "set VisualStudioVersion=17.12.0". In addition I executed
>> the
>> script "vcvarsall.bat amd64_arm64" which ends up with the following
>> message:
>> 
>> All seems fine so far, but when I start your tool with:
>> 
>> python build-demo.py --target win-64
>> 
>> the command stopped with following message:
>> 
>> Does that really mean the latest MSVC version 17 doesn't work? Am I
>> doing something wrong? Is there any workaround available? Or
>> should/must I go back to an older version, e.g. MSVC 16?
> 
> It means that MSVC v17 is unsupported (ie. untested). The check is
> made in WindowsArchitecture.msvc_target() in platforms.py. You can try
> relaxing the check and seeing it fi works.
> 
> Phil
> 
> -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht --------
> 
>  		BETREFF:
>  		Need support for pyqtdeploy
> 
>  		DATUM:
>  		Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:49:51 +0100
> 
>  		VON:
>  		Dr. Wolfgang Schilling <wschill at freenet.de>
> 
>  		AN:
>  		info at riverbankcomputing.com
> 
>  Dear All!
> 
> I hope I'm doing the right thing to provide this question to you. If
> it's not the correct contact, please let me know.
> 
> I've a developped a Python/PyQt5 application which I want to deploy to
> Windows 10 64bit and Linux 32bit. I found your tool "pyqtdeploy" which
> seems to me the right approach to do so.
> 
> I just started with the demo and have problems to get it up and
> running. I've installed VisualStudio v17, implemented the environment
> variable "set VisualStudioVersion=17.12.0". In addition I executed the
> script "vcvarsall.bat amd64_arm64" which ends up with the following
> message:
> 
> All seems fine so far, but when I start your tool with:
> 
> python build-demo.py --target win-64
> 
> the command stopped with following message:
> 
> Does that really mean the latest MSVC version 17 doesn't work? Am I
> doing something wrong? Is there any workaround available? Or
> should/must I go back to an older version, e.g. MSVC 16?
> 
> Best Regards
> W. Schilling
> Germany