[Pyqt-mac-list] PyQt4 linking to Qt4 -framework

[Michael M. <ma...@ho...>]

Hi,

I've been using PyQt and Qt3&4, along with the Eric3 IDE, on
Linux and BSD. Nice stuff.

Trying to get the same environment on OS X, though, is
painful. Ridiculously so. I'll gloss over the problems with
Eric3 [python 2.3 not 2.4, and refuses to save preferences/
settings].

I've been trying to build Qt4 and PyQt for use on OS X
using the Framework structure that is more or less
native to OS X. Both Qt4 and PyQt build to the framework
structure, so this should be no problem...

Problem. PyQt expects Qt4 to be in anything *but* framework
format. I tried symlinking everything [all of the frameworks
under my QTDIR into /Library/Frameworks, then all of the
headers and librarys into QTDIR/include and QTDIR/lib], only
to have the build fail claiming that QtCore was not a shared
library [probably symlinked the wrong thing, but file(1) thought
it was a shared library].

Currently compiling Qt4 *again*, with -no-framework, to make
PyQt build.

Is it possible for future [non-developer] releases of PyQt to
have a config parameter for linking to OS X framework builds?
Seems odd to have both components build frameworks, but
not be able to link together.

--Mike