Re: using sip-wheel on MacOS

On 28/04/2020 04:55, Steve Borho wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Linux and Windows I can use sip-wheel to build binary wheels that
> will gladly use the Qt libraries packaged by PyQt5, by compiling
> against the same local version of Qt.
> 
> But when I try this on Mac, it is linking in the full paths to the
> local (homebrew) Qt libraries
> 
> $ otool -L foo.cpython-37m-darwin.so
> foo.cpython-37m-darwin.so:
> 	/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtPrintSupport.framework/Versions/5/QtPrintSupport
> (compatibility version 5.14.0, current version 5.14.1)
> 	/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtOpenGL.framework/Versions/5/QtOpenGL
> (compatibility version 5.14.0, current version 5.14.1)
> 	/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtWidgets.framework/Versions/5/QtWidgets
> (compatibility version 5.14.0, current version 5.14.1)
> 	/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtDataVisualization.framework/Versions/5/QtDataVisualization
> (compatibility version 5.14.0, current version 5.14.1)
> 	/usr/local/opt/qt/lib/QtGui.framework/Versions/5/QtGui (compatibility
> version 5.14.0, current version 5.14.1)
> 
> I see that sip-wheel has an option for:
> 
>   --target-qt-dir DIR   the Qt libraries will be found in DIR when the 
> wheel
>                         is installed
> 
> but it is not clear how to target the PyQt5 packaged Qt libraries.
> Has anyone else tackled this?  Thanks

Assuming you are going to package a Qt installation with your wheel 
using pyqt-bundle at a later stage then pass '--target-qt-dir Qt/lib'.

This will be documented in the next release of the PyQt docs.

Phil