[PyQt] Installing PyQt 5 on Mac OS X (10.6.8 Snow Leopard)

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:36:59 +0100, Anzir Boodoo <ab at transcience.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying to install PyQt 5 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, and got the
> following output (the first line being the Terminal command):
> 
>> Anzir-Boodoos-MacBook-Pro-2:PyQt-gpl-5.0 pbadmin$ python configure.py
>> --verbose
>> Querying qmake about your Qt installation...
>> An internal error occured.  Please report all the output from the
>> program,
>> including the following traceback, to support at riverbankcomputing.com.
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "configure.py", line 2409, in <module>
>>     main(sys.argv)
>>   File "configure.py", line 2366, in main
>>     target_config.get_qt_configuration(opts)
>>   File "configure.py", line 484, in get_qt_configuration
>>     if qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC == 'macx-xcode':
>> AttributeError: TargetQtConfiguration instance has no attribute
>> 'QMAKE_SPEC'
> 
> I had a look at configure.py, and notice the line in question seems to
be
> from here:
> 
>>         # The binary MacOS/X Qt installer defaults to XCode.  If this
is
>>         what
>>         # we might have then use macx-clang.
>>         if sys.platform == 'darwin':
>>             if qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC == 'macx-xcode':
>>                 # This will exist (and we can't check anyway).
>>                 self.qmake_spec = 'macx-clang'
>>             else:
>>                 # No need to explicitly name the default.
>>                 self.qmake_spec = ''
>> 
>>             # See if it is a framework.
>>             if os.access(os.path.join(qt_config.QT_INSTALL_LIBS,
>>             'QtCore.framework'), os.F_OK):
>>                 self.qt_framework = True
> 
> 
> I'm by no means a Python expert (I'm at the beginning of learning Qt,
> certainly), but qt_config.QMAKE_SPEC doesn't seem to be defined anywhere
> here (I may be completely wrong, but that appears to be where
configure.py
> is failing).
> 
> Can anyone tell me where I might have gone wrong and what I'd need to do
> to get PyQt 5 installed?

Use the --qmake flag to point to Qt5's qmake. You are probably defaulting
to Qt4's.

Phil