<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">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: <a href="https://cpython-core-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_cpython_windows.html">https://cpython-core-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_cpython_windows.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Though some of these problems also have to do with using a debug build of python.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 24, 2020, at 12:16 AM, Phil Thompson <phil@riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On 24/04/2020 06:50, Patrick Stinson wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Hello,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I ran into a few problems with configuring, building, and installing</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sip-4.19.19 script on windows using python built from source (with</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>PCBuild\build.bat). Here they are along with my workarounds:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>SIP</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- It expects site-packages\PyQt5 to already exist when passing</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>—sip-module=PyQt5.sip. I worked around this by patching configure.py</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to create the dir if it doesn’t exist (see attached diff)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- For a python built from source, configure.py expects pythonxx.lib or</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>pythonXX_d.lib to be in PYTHON_ROOT\\libs. I hacked configure.py to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>use PYTHON_ROOT\\amd64 instead (see attached diff).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- As with sip above, I hacked configure.py to include the '_d' debug</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>suffix for each entry in installed.txt so that `nmake install` would</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>pick up the correct file names (see attached diff).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>PYQT5</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- The include paths need to include both PYTHON_ROOT\include for</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Python.h and PYTHON_ROOT\PC for pyconfig.h. I worked around this by</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>manually appending PYTHON_ROOT\PC to include_paths just before the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>call to generate_module_makefile().</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- As describe above with sip, for a python built from source,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>configure.py expects pythonxx.lib or pythonXX_d.lib to be in</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>PYTHON_ROOT\\libs. I hacked configure.py to use PYTHON_ROOT\\amd64</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>instead (see attached diff).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>- As with sip above, I hacked configure.py to include the '_d' debug</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>suffix for each entry in installed.txt so that `nmake install` would</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>pick up the correct file names (see attached diff).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Am I making any big mistakes here that would make life easier?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Are you saying that a Python installation built from source behaves differently than one installed from python.org?</span><br><span></span><br><span>Phil</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>