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In attempt to build sip from source packages, I have the infinite loop on a building step. I run make.exe and it takes the following steps unitl I press Ctrl+Brake:

cd sipgen
make
make[1]: Entering directory `C:/sip'
cd sipgen
make
make[2]: Entering directory `C:/sip'
cd sipgen
make
make[3]: Entering directory `C:/sip'
cd sipgen
make
make[4]: Entering directory `C:/sip'
...........................................
cd sipgen
make
make[n]: Entering directory `C:/sip'
^C

Makefile in root directory contains code below:

all:
    cd sipgen
    $(MAKE)
    @cd ..
    cd siplib
    $(MAKE)
    @cd ..

install:
    cd sipgen
    $(MAKE) install
    @cd ..
    cd siplib
    $(MAKE) install
    @cd ..
    @if not exist C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages mkdir C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages
    copy /y sipconfig.py C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\sipconfig.py
    copy /y C:\sip\sipdistutils.py C:\Python34\Lib\site-packages\sipdistutils.py

clean:
    cd sipgen
    $(MAKE) clean
    @cd ..
    cd siplib
    $(MAKE) clean
    @cd ..

Do you know the reasons? Can I solve this issue, or it impossible on Windows?

PS. Sorry for my awful English

Gallyam Biktashev
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  • I downloaded sip-4.16.4-snapshot-c2cfa151229a.zip, then from cmd execute : python configure.py then execute make , building is ok .. but the make file contains the following in (all) section : all: @(cd sipgen; $(MAKE)) @(cd siplib; $(MAKE)) – houssam Oct 11 '14 at 21:06

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I just copy the answer of another question

If you use python configure.py, the generated Makefiles are actually nmake makefiles. nmake is Microsoft's equivalent to make. You can run it by invoking nmake in a Visual Studio command prompt, if you have that installed.

For building with mingw, you have to indicate that you want to use that particular platform when creating the makefiles, as follows:

python configure.py --platform win32-g++

After that, invoking make works fine.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16051239

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If you use the PyQt windows installer the sip package will be installed too!

Plouff
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    which PyQt windows installer will install the SIP package as well? On this site (http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download) it notes that SIP must first be installed. – user25976 May 06 '15 at 19:32
  • It's true I can see the note too. I stopped working with PyQt a while ago and I don't remember how I set up my environment. But I am pretty sure I never installed SIP on my own. Maybe you could check Python install. BTW if you can use PyQt5 I could be better for you in the future :). – Plouff May 07 '15 at 11:33
  • @user25976 That page states _"Before you can build PyQt4 you must have already built and installed SIP"_, but if you install a precompiled version then you don't have to build (I think). There's a sip.exe (version 4.16.4) in my PyQt4 directory (and v4.16.6 in PyQt5) after install, but I don't know whether it's in path afterwards. – Andris May 23 '15 at 06:28
  • I should change my opinion, sipconfig.py was still missing so I needed to install sip. – Andris May 23 '15 at 11:07