[PyQt] Android build failing with Python 3.6.4

[Phil Thompson]

On 21 Jun 2018, at 11:08 pm, Kálmán Viktor <viktorvector at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to build my application using pyqtdeploy 2.1, ndk r10e with android platform 21.
> Building sysroot succeeds but building the application fails, the error I get is
> 
> grpmodule.o:grpmodule.c:function grp_getgrall: error: undefined reference to 'setgrent'
> grpmodule.o:grpmodule.c:function grp_getgrall: error: undefined reference to 'getgrent'
> grpmodule.o:grpmodule.c:function grp_getgrall: error: undefined reference to 'endgrent'
> grpmodule.o:grpmodule.c:function grp_getgrall: error: undefined reference to 'endgrent'
> 
> If I manually "empty" the function (so it just creates a PyObject and returns it) things seem to work but it might bite me back later in a form of some weird errors.
> 
> 
> My json file I used to build my sysroot
> 
> {
>     "Description": "A skeleton sysroot specification.",
> 
>     "qt5": {
>         "android#qt_dir":           "/home/name/Qt/*/android_armv7"
>     },
>     "python": {
>         "build_host_from_source":true,
>         "build_target_from_source": true,
>         "source": "Python-3.6.4.tar.xz"
>     },
> 
>     "sip": {
>         "source": "sip-4.19.8.tar.gz"
>     },
> 
>     "pyqt5": {
>         "android#disabled_features":    [
>                 "PyQt_Desktop_OpenGL", "PyQt_Printer", "PyQt_PrintDialog",
>                 "PyQt_PrintPreviewDialog", "PyQt_PrintPreviewWidget"
>         ],
>         "source": "PyQt5_gpl-5.10.1.tar.gz",
>         "android#modules":              [
>                 "QtCore", "QtGui", "QtNetwork", "QtQml", "QtQuick", "QtSvg", "QtWidgets",
>                 "QtAndroidExtras"
>         ]
>     }
> }

The meta-data for the 'grp' module may be incorrect for Android. Edit the 'grp' entry in pyqtdeploy/metadata/python_metadata.py and change target='!win' to target='linux|ios|macos'

> Also somewhat not relevant question but when is the next PyPi release expected? The current one does not support Python 3.6.5 but as I saw the pyqtdeploy source it already does.

I'm waiting for the release of Python v3.7.

Phil