On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:19:01 +0100 (BST), Jeremy Sanders <jer...@jeremysanders.net> wrote: > What's the recommended compiler to use to compile Qt and PyQt on Windows? > > The free edition of Qt-4.5.2 builds very cleanly with mingw. I did a > static build of Qt with mingw (gcc 3.4.5) on Windows XP. > > I downloaded the Python 2.6.2 binary from the Python website and built the > latest sip snapshot using the win32-g++ platform. That appears to build > okay. > > I then tried the latest PyQt snapshot but it failed: > > g++ -c -O2 -frtti -fexceptions -mthreads -Wall -DUNICODE > -DQT_LARGEFILE_SUPPORT -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB > -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -I"..\..\..\..\Qt\4.5.2\include\QtCore" > -I"..\..\..\..\Qt\4.5.2\include\QtGui" -I"..\..\..\..\Qt\4.5.2\include" > -I"..\..\..\..\Python26\include" -I"..\..\_qt" -I"." > -I"..\..\..\..\Qt\4.5.2\include\ActiveQt" -I"release" > -I"..\..\..\..\Qt\4.5.2\mkspecs\default" -o release\qpycore_qstring.o > qpycore_qstring.cpp > qpycore_qstring.cpp: In function `QString > qpycore_PyObject_AsQString(PyObject*)': > qpycore_qstring.cpp:100: error: invalid conversion from `Py_UNICODE*' to > `const ushort*' > qpycore_qstring.cpp:100: error: initializing argument 1 of `static > QString QString::fromUtf16(const ushort*, int)' > > This is with PyQt configured using: > configure.py --consolidate -c -j 5 --enable QtCore --enable QtSvg --plugin > qjpeg --plugin qtiff --pluginqgif --plugin qsvgicon > > Is this a supported configuration? Would it be best to try to build Python > with mingw or rebuild Qt and PyQt with Visual Studio Express?
My recommendation is to use the compiler used to compile Python which for Python v2.6 is MSVC 2008. I don't test with MinGW. That said, I suspect the fix to the above is just to explicitly cast to const ushort *. If that works then tell me. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
