[PyQt] Deploying from Linux to Windows

[Doug Hackworth]

Update:  I tried the same procedure (install Python, install PyQt4) on a fresh 
Windows XP machine that doesn't have Cygwin+Python and any complications that 
may cause, and things work as expected.

I did add Lib/site-packages to a system PYTHONPATH environment variable just to 
be on the safe side, but otherwise didn't have to do anything weird.  I guess I 
was just "lucky" in choosing for my first test machine one that had the Cygwin 
strangeness (a.k.a. Pernicious Python Path Problems!).  I tried this machine 
again, too, after uninstalling the Python package in Cygwin, and now things work 
there, too -- so it was indeed the path confusion caused by Cygwin's Python. 
Strange, I wouldn't have expected that.

So to summarize, the correct procedure is:

1.  Install Python 2.6
2.  Install PyQt4 for Python 2.6
3.  [optional?] Create PYTHONPATH environment variable and add 
$PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR/Lib/site-packages to it.


Thanks to all who responded!

-- Doug