[PySide] The problem of bulid Pyside on Windows with MinGW

[Roman Lacko]

Hi,

2013/5/5 Peng Feixiang <pengfx at yeah.net>

> Hi,all
>
> I checked http://qt-project.org/wiki/Building*PySide*on_Windows and only
> Visual Studio is used to build PySide on Windows. But for some reason I
> have to use MinGW to build PySide.
>
> I'm trying to build PySide on Windows with MinGW, with the following
> command:
>
> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst --make-spec=mingw
> --qmake=c:\Qt\qt-4.8.4-mingw-x32\bin\qmake.exe
>
> shiboken build should be OK, but QtCore failed with error:
>
> [ 18%] Building CXX object PySide/QtCore/CMakeFiles/QtCore.dir/PySide/QtCore/point_wrapper.cpp.obj
> g++.exe: D:\binding_project\PySide-1.1.2\pyside_build\py2.7-qt4.8.4-32bit-release\pyside\PySide\QtCore\PySide\QtCore\point_wrapper.cpp: No such file or directory
> g++.exe: no input files
> mingw32-make[2]: *** [PySide/QtCore/CMakeFiles/QtCore.dir/PySide/QtCore/point_wrapper.cpp.obj] Error 1
> mingw32-make[1]: *** [PySide/QtCore/CMakeFiles/QtCore.dir/all] Error 2
> mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> the error is due to generator warning:
>
> [  3%]
> Running generator for QtCore...
> ...
> type 'POINT' is specified in typesystem, but not defined. This could potentially lead to compilation errors.
>
> Then I tried to solve this problem. I found that:
>
>    -
>
>    *Core/CMakeList.txt* includes the following 5 lines
>
>        if(ENABLE_WIN)
>            set(SPECIFIC_OS_FILES
>            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/PySide/QtCore/msg_wrapper.cpp
>            ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/PySide/QtCore/point_wrapper.cpp
>        )
>
>    -
>
>
>
If you look in
pyside_build\py2.7-qt4.8.4-32bit-release\pyside\PySide\QtCore\PySide\QtCore
you will find that
msg_wrapper.cpp is generated and point_wrapper.cpp is not, which is strange
because MSG struct is also missing from wtypes.h,  it's defined in
winuser.h. I will look at this tomorrow.

Regards
-Roman


>
>    -
>
>    And in *QtCore/typesystemcorewin.xml*,with the following 6 lines
>
>        <value-type name="POINT">
>            <include file-name="wtypes.h" location="global"/>
>        </value-type>
>        <value-type name="MSG">
>            <include file-name="wtypes.h" location="global"/>
>        </value-type>
>
>
> I think file "wtypes.h" may become the key point.
>
> Then I searched the whole windows file system using kwyword “wtypes”, and
> located “wtypes.h” under *"mingw/include/"* .I opened this file, but
> found nothing related to "POINT". In another windows OS with VS2008 in it,
> I did the search again, "WTypes.h" is located under *"Microsoft
> SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Include"*. I opened this file, and found the
> defination of POINT and MSG.
>
> I feel that the lack of defination in MinGW leads to the problem"type
> 'POINT' is specified in typesystem, but not defined". Then I found the
> defination of POINT under "mingw/include/windef.h"(the defination of POINT
> under "mingw/include/winuser.h"), I changed the file "*QtCore/typesystem
> corewin.xml*":
>
> REPLACE
>
>     <value-type name="POINT">
>         <include file-name="wtypes.h" location="global"/>
>     </value-type>
>
> WITH
>
>     <value-type name="POINT">
>         <include file-name="windef.h" location="global"/>
>     </value-type>
>
> Build again, but same problem occurred --"type 'POINT' is specified in
> typesystem, but not defined. "
>
> I was stuck here. Can someone help me?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Peng Feixiang
>
>
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