Re: Installing pyqt5 with sip and qmake executables on ubuntu

As mentioned, I am using the qmake and sip exes to build sip extensions that use qt for Mac windows and Linux.

Does the sip on pypi install the sip exe?

Qt 6 will move to cmake so that is the future. It may solve this problem in the long run. But not yet.

> On Apr 26, 2020, at 4:15 PM, michael h <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> > Is building qt/python/sip/pyqt5 the only way to install pyqt5 along with the sip and qmake exe’s so you can build extensions as well as run the project?
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> I install sip5 from pypi and use that (it was fairly trivial to migrate from sip4 for me, if you're still on that). However, the library i'm wrapping is built using cmake (which builds against Qt from the official installer) so I can't comment extensively on using qmake directly.
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> I wouldn't expect pyqt5 to ship with qmake (and seems like you'd need headers and libs anyways). What are you using qmake for?
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