nmake: Installing PyQt In Windows 7 with Visual Studio .NET 2010
For those of you interested in pursuing Python development involving a front-end GUI made from Qt, and don't know how to get started on Windows 7, this is what you need to do. This could generalize to any software you might wish to install with the "nmake" tool, which allows you to "configure", "make", and "make install" different software packages in much the same way you would on a Linux box. My setup: Windows 7 machine Windows 7.0 APIs installed (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A) Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Ultimate (will hopefully work with Express too) First, for our specific purpose, download and install Qt if you haven't done that already. It'll take so long that you ought to have plenty of time to run the next step (building SIP) in parallel and still have time to play at least a couple rounds of solitaire. In general, before you build from any Makefile in Windows, download and unzip your sourc