[Interest] Strange unresolved external symbols in QtCore on windows

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 00:51:02 PST Alexandru Croitor wrote:
> "#define protected public"
> 
> is used by PyQt5 / sip source code to allow overriding protected methods
> from Python derived classes.

That hack doesn't work with MSVC. It results in the exact error messages 
during linking that you see in the OP.

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