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

[Phil Thompson]

On 20/09/2019 19:49, Zach Pincus wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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.)
> 
> In particular, I had assumed that the pip-installed PyQt5-sip package
> would be sufficient to install to build PyQt5. However, this package
> does not seem to provide a `sip` executable that can be used for this
> purpose. The description of the PyQt5-sip package on PyPI seems to
> suggest that the code generation tool is part of the install, but
> perhaps it isn't?
> https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5-sip/

That is the PyQt5.sip module - nothing else.

> 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?

You need to build sip from the source package...

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Docs/PyQt5/installation.html#building-and-installing-from-source

Phil