Building PySide on Windows

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Building PySide on Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

• "Qt 4.8 libraries VS 2008 edition":http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.5/qt-win-opensource-4.8.5-vs2008.exe is required when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2
• "Qt 4.8 libraries VS 2010 edition":http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.5/qt-win-opensource-4.8.5-vs2010.exe is required when building against Python 3.3 or 3.4
• "Windows SDK v7.0":http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3138 is required when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2
• "Windows SDK v7.1":http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8279 is required when building against Python 3.3 or 3.4
• "CMake":http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
• "Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4":http://www.python.org/download/
• "OpenSSL (optional)":http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

NOTE: Be sure that cmake.exe is in your PATH.

Building PySide installer

• Download "PySide Source Distribution":https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PySide/PySide-1.2.2.tar.gz

• Extract the source distribution and switch to the PySide-1.2.2 directory:

 c:gt; cd PySide-1.2.2

• Build PySide windows installer:

 c:gt; c:27\python setup.py bdist_wininst —qmake=c:.8.5\bin\qmake.exe —openssl=c:32bit\bin

• After the successful build, the binaries can be found in sub-folder "dist":

c:-setup\dist