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

[Olivier Barthelemy]

It's a MSVC build launched from cygwin. That same script worked for an
earlier 5.x version

2015-06-04 17:05 GMT+02:00 Nuno Santos <nunosantos at imaginando.pt>:

> 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
>
> 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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