[PyQt] pyqtdeploy building demo problem with NDK

[Phil Thompson]

On 3 Aug 2018, at 6:04 am, Ronald Petit <elronaldpetit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Okay Phil, I'm still here, sorry if I'm bothering too much, but as more as I read, seems like pyqtdeploy is my only option to convert PyQt5 into Qt C++ code.
> 
> Now, I setup sysroot.json to use my existing Qt installation, then, It was complaining about Python, as I tried to use Python-3.7.0.tar.xz, and got the same error as on Qt because it is an xz, however, I downloaded Python-3.7.0.tgz, the pyqtdeploy was able to extract that one (Still not too much clues about why Python cannot extract .xz files, the error message was "Unknown file format", I built my own Python (Python 3.7.0), so I'm thinkking I did something wrong there.

As I said, you have to have the xz support available when building Python (the xz-devel package on Red Hat).

> Now the pyqtdeploy is complaining when building Python, it says:
> 
> Python/sysmodule.c: In function ‘_PySys_BeginInit’:
> Python/sysmodule.c:2303:60: error: ‘_PYTHONFRAMEWORK’ undeclared (first use in this function)
>      SET_SYS_FROM_STRING("_framework", PyUnicode_FromString(_PYTHONFRAMEWORK));
> 
> Then a bunch of notes and the final error of make returning non-zero exit status. No clue about this on google, any other hint?

pyqtdeploy v2.1 does not support Python v3.7.0. v2.2 will. The latest version supported by v2.1 is v3.6.4.

Phil