Re: Build PyQt5 from source with PyQt5-sip binary?
Phil Thompson <[email protected]>
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On 20/09/2019 19:49, Zach Pincus wrote: > Hello, > > I'm sorry if this is an obvious question, but I'm struggling a bit to > build PyQt5 from sources on my Mac. (So that I may test the fixed > onexit scheme from a nightly snapshot.) > > In particular, I had assumed that the pip-installed PyQt5-sip package > would be sufficient to install to build PyQt5. However, this package > does not seem to provide a `sip` executable that can be used for this > purpose. The description of the PyQt5-sip package on PyPI seems to > suggest that the code generation tool is part of the install, but > perhaps it isn't? > https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5-sip/ That is the PyQt5.sip module - nothing else. > Anyhow, is there a way to get PyQt5-sip to produce an executable (or > another straightforward way to get a sip binary / executable), or do I > pretty much need to install sip from source (or from a package > manager) in order to build PyQt5? You need to build sip from the source package... https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html#building-and-installing-from-source Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt