[PyQt] pyqtdeploy freeze error: cannot find bootlocale.py

[Bill Eaton]

Ok. I finally got it working!

Mostly I followed bootchk's advice for building everything statically:
https://plashless.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/using-pyqtdeploy0-5-on-linux-to-cross-compile-a-pyqt-app-for-android/

However, there were quite a few hiccups along the way. I had Android SDK 
22 installed from ADT-Bundle. It seems Google has ditched the 
Eclipse-based bundle in favor of their own Android Studio based on their 
acquisition of IntelliJ. I ended up having to download the NDK again. I 
deleted all of the files in /usr/lib/adt-bundle/ndk and replacing them 
with the tarball. But the permissions were screwy, so ended up chmod -R 
777 the whole NDK directory and chmod -R +x the relevant bin directories.

I used Python 3.4.0 and there was a problem with _posixsubprocess.c  So 
I found the patch and overwrote it in my local source directory. 
Regrettably, I cannot find the link for the c file now.

Statically building PyQt5 took a while. I ran into the same problems 
bootchk did: many modules will fail on make. QWebsocket, QMultimedia*, 
and many others failed. I kept editing the pyqt5-android.cfg file until 
I got no more errors.

Systemwide Qt5 worked just fine for qmake during the static build 
process. I have an update install of Qt5.5 using the Qt Maintenance Tool 
gui program. All of my Qt files seem to be stored in /opt/Qt/

I'm so psyched to start doing some real programming!

Bill Eaton
Thousand Oaks



On 09/21/2015 09:51 AM, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 21 Sep 2015, at 5:44 pm, Bill Eaton <wpeaton4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...because you haven't built Python yet.
>> Thanks for the help. I get that I need to build Python. Bootchk statically
>> builds Python using a local version of qmake from a local version of Qt. Is
>> this the preferred way? Or can I get away with using the qmake that QT
>> Maintenance tool installs systemwide?
> Assuming you are using the standard Android Qt binaries (rather than compiling your own) you should use the qmake included with that.
>
> Phil