Still need support for pyqtdeploy

[Phil Thompson]

On 21/11/2024 10:51, Dr. Wolfgang Schilling wrote:
> Dear Phil,
> 
> I'm some steps further but now I'm stuck in installing Qt elements.
> 
> The following histrory may help you to understand how difficult the
> way to success is. This description may help other users, too:
> 
> 1. Install packages:
>    pip install pyqtdeploy
>    pip install sip
>    pip install PyQt-builder
> 2. Install perl (e.g. 'Strawberry Perl') and add perl/bin forder to
> system path
> 3. Install Visual Studio 2019 (v16)
>    Several installation links are available without to subscribe to
> Microsoft
> 4. Install VS Remote tools for VS2019 (v16)
>    Installation link is available without to subscribe to Microsoft
>    This installation is required to get all VS tools which are NOT
> included in
>    shareware version of VS2019 such as nmake.exe or cl.exe
> 5. Add different paths to system environment path to get to required
> VS tools
> 6. Copy zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz to /demo from www.zlib.net/fossils [1]
>    Direct download doesn't work because a newer version is showing up
> in www.zlib.net [2]
> 7. Copy qt-everywhere-src-5.12.2.tar.xz to /demo
>    Again, this file was not found automatically on the wed side
> 8. Run "python build-demo.py --target win-64 --verbose"
> 
> And here the installation process is stopping:
> 
> Looking to the error message it tolds me that a *.template file is
> missing in a specific directory (/redeclare-allow-sloppy-function).
> This directory is empty, but the requested template can be found in
> another directory (/redeclare). Just copying the files from one
> directory to the other doesn't work because the whole .tar file is
> always unpacked when restarting the installation procedure.
> 
> Any idea how to proceed? Help is appreciated very much.

I've only ever seen something like that when using a filesystem that 
doesn't support long path names.

Phil