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Posted on May 31, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Building Python Extensions on Win32 with MS VC++ 2008 Express

These days, I’m mostly working on linux and I haven’t had to use the Microsoft dev tools for a long time. I’m using Vista on my new laptop. Yesterday, I had to install pycrypto from source on Windows. The only compiler I had was MinGW, which doesn’t quite cut it with distutils. I figured that [...]

Posted on June 29, 2006 at 9:56 am

Installing PyQt4 GPL on Windows, take 2

I upgraded to Qt 4.1.4 GPL yesterday. Just did some note taking throught the whole process. Building Qt Extract Qt zipfile to C:\Qt Create directory C:\Qt\4.1.4 Copy Directory mkspecs to C:\Qt\4.1.4 go to C:\Qt\qt-win-opensource-src-4.1.4 and run “configure.exe -prefix C:\QT\4.1.4″ run “mingw32-make” and “mingw32-make install” Now for some reason QtDesigner doesn’t work. But then I hate [...]

Posted on June 4, 2006 at 1:28 pm

Installing PyQT4 GPL with Mingw on Windows

I’ve been trying to get the latest PyQT4 GPL snapshot with QT 4.1.2 working with Mingw32 on a windows box. Had a little bit of trouble in the process, so writing this log so that anyone else who tries this wouldn’t end up wasting time like I did Ingredients: 1) Python 2.4.3 2) Mingw 3) [...]