Building PySide on Windows

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Building PySide on Microsoft Windows

Prerequisites

• Qt 4.8 libraries VS 2008 edition is required when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2
• Qt 4.8 libraries VS 2010 edition is required when building against Python 3.3 or 3.4
• Windows SDK v7.0 is required when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2
• Windows SDK v7.1 is required when building against Python 3.3 or 3.4
• CMake
• Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4
• OpenSSL (optional)

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

Building PySide installer

• Download PySide Source Distribution

• Extract the source distribution and switch to the PySide-1.2.4 directory:

c:gt; cd PySide-1.2.4

• 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