[Interest] Python not found when building QT 5.4.x

[Nuno Santos]

Are you targeting for MingW or or MSVC? 

I have been build Qt from source very recently and I have used the windows prompt. 

I have followed this guide:

http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-building.html <http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-building.html>

In my case, at some point, I had to install python and put it on the path.

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> On 04 Jun 2015, at 15:56, Olivier Barthelemy <barthelemy at geovariances.com> wrote:
> 
> I am launching QT5 build from sources, from a cygwin bash terminal on windows.
> Just before launching the nmake, the python i want to use is properly found and working. But during the build, the command 
> python C:/sdk/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.4.2/qtdeclarative/src/3rdparty/masm/create_regex_tables > .generated\debug\RegExpJitTables.h
> fails with the error  that python command was not found.
> 
> I am guessing that at some point, the build process starts a new windows shell that doesn't inherit the environment i set in cygwin, and python would be found if i set PATH to my python in the system's base values for the environment variables so all shells inherit it. 
> 
> But as the build is in an automated script, whose environment must be set by scripts depending on what i want to build, hardcoding in the system the path to this python is not an idea i like very much.
> 
> Any suggestion?
> 
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