Building PySide on Microsoft Windows

Building PySide on Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

• MS Visual Studio Express 2008 [microsoft.com]
  • NOTE: Visual Studio Express 2010 is not supported
• CMake [cmake.org]
• Git [code.google.com]
• Python 2.6 or 2.7 [python.org]

NOTE: Be sure that git.exe and cmake.exe are all in your PATH.

Build

• Open “Visual Studio Command Prompt”: [Start Menu]->Programs->Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition->Visual Studio Tools

• Get build scripts from repository http://qt.gitorious.org/pyside/packaging and go to folder “c:\repositories\packaging\setuptools”. The script can automatically download the sources, compile them, and create the installer, all in one step.

• Run the build.py script (it must be run from “Visual Studio Command Prompt”):

To build the latest stable binaries for Python 2.7 and Qt 4.7.3, run the script with parameters:

1.   c :\repositories\packaging\setuptools >c :\Python27\python. exe build. py  -d  -q c :\ Qt\4.7.3\bin\qmake. exe
2.  

To build the latest development binaries:

1.   c :\repositories\packaging\setuptools >c :\Python27\python. exe build. py  -d  -m dev  -q c :\ Qt\4.7.3\bin\qmake. exe
2.  

All build.py parameters:

1.     -p  <package_version > Specify package version.  Default is latest stable version  (1.0.4 )
2.     -d                   Download latest sources from git repository
3.     -m  <pyside_version >  Specify what version of modules to download from git repository :
4.                           'dev'  (master tag ) or  'stable'  (1.0.4 tag ).  Default is  'stable'.
5.     -q  <qmake_path >      Locate qmake
6.     -e                   Check the environment
7.     -b                   Specify what module to build
8.     -o                   Create a distribution package only  using existing binaries
9.    

• After the successful build, the final binary distribution can be found in sub-folder “dist”:
  1.   c :\repositories\packaging\setuptools\dist\PySide -1.0.4qt473. win32 -py2.7. exe
  2.  

Categories:

• LanguageBindings
  • PySide