[QScintilla] installation issues on windows

[Marc-Olivier LaBarre]

Hi

I've met two issues while installing and configuring Qscintilla
(version 2.2) on my windows (xp) pc. I actually managed to (I think)
solve the issues (simple edits into the config files), and only post
so that the settings in question might be changed to avoid these
issues for the next version.

Issue 1:
I've had a problem with the "make install" step of the intallation.
the xcopy commands were buggy and returned "invalid number of
parameters". Turned out, while looking into Makefile.release, that the
xcopy instuctions didn't put quotation marks around the paths, which
lead to a bad number of parameter if the path itself contains one (or
more) space character.
ex: -$(INSTALL_FILE) c:\Program
Files\QScintilla-gpl-2.2\Qt4\qscintilla_cs.qm
c:$(INSTALL_ROOT)\Qt\4.4.1\translations
which I changed to: -$(INSTALL_FILE) "c:\Program
Files\QScintilla-gpl-2.2\Qt4\qscintilla_cs.qm"
c:$(INSTALL_ROOT)\Qt\4.4.1\translations
I guess simply changing the generation of the commands themselves to
add the quotation marks automatically should solve this problem.

Issue 2:
The second issue was with the python bindings/sip code generation... I
noticed that despite specifying alternate paths via the parameters
(default C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4, mine =
C:\dev\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PyQt4), I was getting the standard
error for code generation:
Generating the C++ source for the Qsci module...
The system cannot find the path specified.
Error: Unable to create the C++ code.

Turns out that despite giving specific parameters, the code itself
turned back to the default folders, which explains the cannot generate
code issue.

here's the "argv" variable that is generated, at line 221 of
configure.py (inside generate_code()):
['"C:\\Python25\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt4\\sip"', '-x', 'VendorID',
'-t', 'WS_WIN', '-x', 'PyQt_NoPrintRangeBug', '-t', 'Qt_4_4_1', '-g',
'-a', 'QScintilla2.api', '-I',
'C:\\Python25\\Lib\\site-packages\\PyQt4\\sip\\PyQt4', '-c', '.',
'-b', 'qsci.sbf', 'sip/qscimod4.sip']

To "solve" the problem I just added python lines to set the parameters
to the right values, but that doesn't explain why the parameters I
sent to the script where being ignored... First buggy/default path was
from pyqt.sip_bin (at line 189), and the second came through
sip_flags() (at line 191).

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I'm not sure my troubles are over with, but I seem to pass the
"installation" phase without problems.

thanks
Marc-O