[PyQt] Build PyQt5 from source with PyQt5-sip binary?

[Florian Bruhin]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 01:49:56PM -0500, Zach Pincus wrote:
> I'm sorry if this is an obvious question, but I'm struggling a bit to
> build PyQt5 from sources on my Mac. (So that I may test the fixed
> onexit scheme from a nightly snapshot.)

pyqt5_enable_new_onexit_scheme() is part of the PyQt 5.13.1 release, so you
don't need to build anything from sources to test it.

> Anyhow, is there a way to get PyQt5-sip to produce an executable (or
> another straightforward way to get a sip binary / executable), or do I
> pretty much need to install sip from source (or from a package
> manager) in order to build PyQt5?

I always build it from source - it's quite painless and takes 5 seconds or so
to build.

Florian

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