[PyQt] static Python target osx-64 missing util.h

[Phil Thompson]

On 9 Dec 2015, at 9:26 a.m., John Hackett <john.hackett at icon-is.co.uk> wrote:
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> Phil,
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> Am I missing something? I've reread the tutorial on pyqtdeploy and can't see anything about the need for XCode when setting up to cross compile from Linux to Mac....
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> My setup is:
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> o/s Ubuntu 14.04.
> Qt5.5.1
> PyQt-commercial-5.5
> sip-4.17
> Python 2.7.9
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> I have set up directories as specified here: http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/pyqtdeploy/tutorial.html#ref-directory-structure
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> I use the PyCharm IDE to edit the Python code which is in a single file. I think I've followed the tutorial re installing the static builds for a native installation and have managed to get the app to compile and run correctly on the host machine (Ubuntu 14.04). So, this should mean that I now have the correct Qt/PyQt/Python libraries and paths set up now and the few Python code changes I had to make to get the App compiled - it was running in the IDE but some changes needed to be made to allow it to compile correctly.
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> My (naive!) expectation was that having got all this correct in Linux the only changes required to compile for the Mac (and later windows) would be to change the $SYSROOT and compile static versions of Python, sip and PyQt5 with the same pyqtdeploycli commands as before but with the "target" variable changed from "linux-64" to "osx-64" into the $SYSROOT directory. [ see http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/pyqtdeploy/static_builds.html ]
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> Clearly this had failed at the first hurdle - I can't seem to compile the static Python with oxs-64 as the target....
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> Are my assumptions not correct? If not then what am I missing?
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> PS: searching for util.h on my Mac (find /Applications/Xcode.app -name util.h) gives me quite a few results - if I find the correct one do I just copy it from my mac to the linux host? And if so where so I put it? It seems odd to me that this would be required.

I didn't pick up on the fact you are trying to cross-compile for Mac. I know of no way to do this, you must compile them natively.

Phil