<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That appears to be the case. Some people report that you can get away with mixing RTL versions.<div class="">But others report strange crashes.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Barry</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Jun 2017, at 20:56, Nathan Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:nbwarmerdam@integrated-informatics.com" class="">nbwarmerdam@integrated-informatics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class="">Would this then mean that I would need to also build Qt myself with the VS for python as well? To avoid any incompatibilities?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Barry Scott <<a href="mailto:barry@barrys-emacs.org" class="">barry@barrys-emacs.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 11:52 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Nathan Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:nbwarmerdam@integrated-informatics.com" class="">nbwarmerdam@integrated-informatics.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com" class="">pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com" class="">pyqt@riverbankcomputing.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [PyQt] PyQt5 for Python 2.7 on Windows 10<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">On 31 May 2017, at 01:30, Nathan Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:nbwarmerdam@integrated-informatics.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">nbwarmerdam@integrated-informatics.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Hello All,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">I have built (with commercial license) PyQt5 for python 2.7. I used VS 2015 and packaged my build with what I believe to be the appropriate windows redistributables.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">That is the wrong VS version for python2.7, unless you rebuilt python 2.7 and all extensions using VS2015 you might hit bugs because of problems with C RTL cross version mixing that does not work in all cases.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">This is version you need if you are using binaries from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://pyton.org/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">pyton.org</a>: <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=44266" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=44266</a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">(google visual studio for python)<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class="">Barry<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">With the resulting build I have had success getting it to run on an independent (i.e. not the build machine) Windows 8.1 machine. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">However when attempting to get it to run on a Windows 10 I have run into the dreaded:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin “windows”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">This is usually a sign that the qt.conf is bad but why would it work on Windows 8 but not Windows 10? Furthermore it does not work even if I put a qt.conf file right next to the python.exe.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">I have followed the file structure used by Phil in the Python 3 version of PyQt5 (e.g. PyQt5\Qt\bin and PyQt5\plugins, etc) and modified the __init__.py file to set various environment variables. Like this:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">import os<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">import sys<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">dir_name = os.path.dirname(__file__)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">_path = os.path.dirname(__file__) + '\\Qt\\bin;' + os.environ['PATH']<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">os.environ['PATH'] = _path<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">os.environ['QML_IMPORT_PATH'] = os.path.join(dir_name, 'Qt', 'qml')<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">os.environ['QML2_IMPORT_PATH'] = os.path.join(dir_name, 'Qt', 'qml')<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">os.environ['QT_PLUGIN_PATH'] = os.path.join(dir_name, 'Qt', 'plugins')<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">os.environ['QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH'] = os.path.join(dir_name, 'Qt', 'plugins', 'platforms')<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">However the message persists.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">As I said, it works on independent Windows 8.1 machines but not with Windows 10. Does anyone have any tips or experience or success with PyQt5 for python 2.7 on Windows 10?<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">With respect,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri;" class="">Nathan<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">PyQt mailing list </span></span><a href="mailto:PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class=""></span><a href="https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>