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

[William Kyngesburye]

Xcode on OSX 10.6 doesn't have clang++, all c++ is handled directly in "clang", though I think the early versions of clang here don't fully support c++.  You're better off with llvm-g++.  Xcode added clang++ in later versions starting with Lion. 

You should try to use a different qmake spec, either macx-g++ or macx-llvm.

On Jun 27, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Anzir Boodoo wrote:

> Phil,
> On 25 Jun 2013, at 15:42, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> Phil suggested:
> 
>> Use the --qmake flag to point to Qt5's qmake. You are probably defaulting
>> to Qt4's.
> 
> It turned out I had Qt 5 installed in my user folder, and was trying to install PyQt from a different account...
> 
> So, with Qt 5 safely (I guess) installed in /usr/local/ , I tried again...
> 
>> Anzir-Boodoos-MacBook-Pro-2:PyQt-gpl-5.0 pbadmin$ sudo python configure.py --qmake /usr/local/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/bin/qmake --verbose
>> Password:
>> Querying qmake about your Qt installation...
>> Determining the details of your Qt installation...
>> /usr/local/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/bin/qmake -o qtdetail.mk qtdetail.pro
>> make -f qtdetail.mk
>> clang++ -c -pipe -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 -O2 -Wall -W -fPIE -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -I/usr/local/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/mkspecs/macx-clang -I. -I/usr/local/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/include -I/usr/local/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/include/QtCore -I/usr/local/Qt5.0.2/5.0.2/clang_64/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/5/Headers -I. -o qtdetail.o qtdetail.cpp
>> make: clang++: No such file or directory
>> make: *** [qtdetail.o] Error 1
>> Error: Failed to determine the detail of your Qt installation. Try again using
>> the --verbose flag to see more detail about the problem.
> 
> 
> (note that I'd sudo'ed (it failed with a permission problem when I didn't), and also explicitly pointed at Qt 5.0.2's qmake
> 
> I have Xcode installed in /Developer (the default installation location), so clang is at /Developer/usr/bin/ - is that the right location?
> 
> anyway, there does appear to be no such thing installed as clang++ ... is this a typo somewhere or have I done something else wrong?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Anzir Boodoo, PhD student
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