[PyQt] pyqtdeploy and sip errors...

[Phil Thompson]

On 29 Oct 2015, at 11:46 a.m., John M. Hackett <john.hackett at icon-is.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> I am having problems with the final stages of building an application with pyqtdeploy: "make" fails with this error:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld cannot find -lsip
> /usr/bin/ld cannot find -lintl
> 
> PyQt5.5 is installed on Ubuntu 14.04 and the application (Python2.7) is running correctly inside the IDE (Pycharm). Then using the instructions here - http://pyqt.sourceforge.net/Docs/pyqtdeploy/static_builds.html - I've build the static packages.
> 
> Concentrating on the sip problem I have setup SYSROOT and followed the instructions for building the static SIP (v4.17).
> The output of "python2.7 configure.py ...." indicates that the module and headers will be copied to the SYSROOT directory:
> 
> The sip module will be installed in
> /root/pyqtdeploy-dir/sysroot-linux/lib/python2.7/site-packages.
> The sip module will be built as a static library.
> The sip.h header file will be installed in
> /root/pyqtdeploy-dir/sysroot-linux/include/python2.7.
> 
> but the output of the "make" command is using python3.4m and "make install" is copying the files to the python3 tree:
> 
> cp -f sip.so /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sip.so
> strip /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sip.so
> cp -f /root/Software/sip-4.17/siplib/sip.h /usr/include/python3.4m/sip.h
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Software/sip-4.17/siplib'

What *exactly* where the commands and arguments that you ran?. My guess is that you didn't use a clean source tree and didn't run qmake.

Phil