[PyQt] How to build pyqt sources to provide the same content than official wheel?

[BPL]

Phil,

Usually I don't have any of my available qt distributions in path, when you
said

You don't copy your Qt installation, PyQt (when build from sources) will
> use it where it is.


I guess you meant PyQt (when built from sources) will use the Qt
installation from either path
or from the Qt folder in the target dir where PyQt has been installed. I
can see pyqt
__init__.py looks like this:

def find_qt():
    import os

    path = os.environ['PATH']

    dll_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) + '\\Qt\\bin'
    if os.path.isfile(dll_dir + '\\Qt5Core.dll'):
        path = dll_dir + ';' + path
        os.environ['PATH'] = path
    else:
        for dll_dir in path.split(';'):
            if os.path.isfile(dll_dir + '\\Qt5Core.dll'):
                break
        else:
            raise ImportError("unable to find Qt5Core.dll on PATH")

    try:
        os.add_dll_directory(dll_dir)
    except AttributeError:
        pass


find_qt()
del find_qt


As a workaround I've decided to create a junction pointing out
to the Qt distribution used to build pyqt from sources, ie:

(py364_32) d:\virtual_envs\py364_32\Lib\site-packages\PyQt5>mklink /j Qt
d:\qt\5.13.0-394-g69ef6e8212
Junction created for Qt <<===>> d:\qt\5.13.0-394-g69ef6e8212


But for some reason when I do `from PyQt5.Qt import *` I'll just get this
content
<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/cj9rf8mbm023rwf/2019-07-20_17-49-10.txt>
where
you can see there isn't any available
QApplication :(

And when doing `from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *` I'll get:

    from PyQt5.QtWidgets import *
ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.

So I'm stuck at this point, could you advice?

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 4:34 PM BPL <spscener84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Florian,
>
> Thanks to provide those wiki docs as well as the qt releasing mailing
> list, they're definitely
> helpful indeed to make proper planning.
>
> If I look in retrospective is funny though, that QTBUG-74492 is the first
> one I've ever been involved with,
> this bug was opened in 21.03.2019 and after few months passed nobody was
> working on it or they didn't
> know what the problem was. I decided to spend some days bisecting the bug
> and finding the root cause
> of the problem, thanks to that the author who introduced the bug in the
> first place could fix it properly in few days. In any case,
> finding the issue was really tricky and the fix ended up to be quite
> "trivial" one. The moral of the story here is,
> for something as trivial as this one you'll need to wait quite a lot of
> time to get
> a proper release... and that's assuming you're interested enough to help
> Qt team to narrow it down. The
> workload of Qt devs isn't small neither... which indicates there is room
> to optimize development in that company.
>
> Bug opened in 21.03.2019 and official release with the fix delivered in
> 15.08.2019... That's quite a lot
> of time to wait for...
>
> Anyway, at this point a global view of how things work in both Qt & pyqt
> has become +/- clear, which is great so you
> know what you can or can't expect.
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 3:10 PM Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 02:53:29PM +0200, BPL wrote:
>> > Anyway... I'll try again to see if I can make it work but hopefully a
>> new
>> > pyqt wheel with this annoying bug fix
>> > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-74492
>> > will land soon at pypi, I've got some opengl tools in place where this
>> > glitch makes really annoying work with them, it's a really disturbing
>> bug :/
>>
>> As you can see in the bug report, the fix lands in Qt 5.12.5, 5.13.1 and
>> 5.14.0.
>> Via the Qt wiki, you can see when those are planned to be released:
>>
>> https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.12_Release (5.12.5: 27.08.2019)
>> https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.13_Release (5.13.1: 15.08.2019)
>> https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_5.14_Release (5.14.0: 26.11.2019)
>>
>> After a new Qt is released, usually a couple of days afterwards, PyQt gets
>> updated (might be a bit longer for new feature releases like 5.14 will
>> be).
>> So if you're okay with upgrading to Qt 5.13, you'll hopefully see an
>> updated
>> PyQt in a month or so.
>>
>> I'd also recommend subscribing to the Qt Releasing mailinglist - it's
>> quite
>> low-traffic, and you get announcement mails when Qt updates are released,
>> or
>> when there was a release team meeting (with the meeting minutes):
>>
>> https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/releasing
>>
>> Florian
>>
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