[PyQt] building SIP on FreeBSD

[Phil Thompson]

On 08/06/2019 01:04, Per Gunnarsson wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have failed to install SIP using pip on FreeBSD.
> 
> Using pip I got:
> 
> Collecting sip
>   ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement sip
> (from versions: none)
> ERROR: No matching distribution found for sip

At a guess you are using a version of Python for which wheels are not 
provided.

> When I looked in the source, there was a README with references to
> "normal installation instructions" and a build.py.
> 
> I don't know anything about the normal installation instructions on
> python, and I did not find the file "build.py" which was supposed to be
> around when I downloaded with mercurial.
> 
> I am grateful for pointers.

If you are wanting to write your own bindings you should build from the 
source package...

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/sip/installation.html

Phil