2. Installation
You can install PyQwt on the POSIX (Unix, Linux), MacOS/X,
and Microsoft Windows operating systems:
- see 2.1 for the software packages needed to build
and install PyQwt.
- see 2.2 for build and installation instructions
using configure.py.
- This is the most portable method, recommended unless you want to make an
installer (.rpm on some Linux systems and .exe on Microsoft Windows).
- It allows you either to link an already installed Qwt-4.2.0 library
with PyQwt or to compile and link the sources of a slightly patched
internal version of Qwt statically into PyQwt.
- see 2.3 for build and installation instructions
using setup.py.
- This method does a better job at detecting missing dependencies and is
therefore recommended on Linux.
- It only allows you to compile and link the sources of the slightly
patched internal version of Qwt statically into PyQwt.
- However, setup.py offers the facilities to make an installer (.rpm
on some Linux systems and .exe on Microsoft Windows).
- see 2.4 for instructions on the use of the binary
Windows installer, to be used with the non-commercial packages
QtWin230-NonCommercial.exe and PyQt-win-nc-msvc-3.13.exe.
Contact the mailing list, if you run into problems.
Note:
The compatibility of PyQwt's build scripts with the commercial packages of Qt
and PyQt on Windows depends on your feedback, because I do not have
access to those versions of Qt and PyQt.
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