PyQt6 and SIP v6 Snapshots Available

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Tue Dec 1 11:38:14 GMT 2020


On 01/12/2020 11:25, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:25:15PM +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> > I got my hands on an older snapshot and also tried the current one with
>> > the Qt version check removed - but whatever I do, I get:
>> >
>> >   sip-build: 'sip-module' must be set
>> >
>> > https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download mentions:
>> > "To build the sip module for PyQt6, run: sip-module --project PyQt6.sip"
>> > but that doesn't actually work.
>> >
>> > Assuming that it should actually say "sip-module --project PyQt6-sip
>> > PyQt6.sip", that doesn't show an error, but also doesn't seem to do
>> > anything. I've tried running with --sdist and installing the resulting
>> > sdist, but sip-build still gives me the same error. What am I missing?
>> 
>> Are you using the latest SIP v6 and PyQt-builder snapshots?
> 
> Sorry for the late answer - I just tried again with:
> 
> - PyQt6 6.0.0.dev2011301320
> - PyQt-builder 1.6.0
> - sip 6.0.0.dev2011271026
> 
> And I get:
> 
>   Generating the QtCore bindings...
>   sip-install:
> .../PyQt6-6.0.0.dev2011301320/sip/QtCore/qnamespace.sip:53: /BaseType/
> is only supported for ABI v13 and later
> 
> Any idea what's going wrong there?

Have you built the sip module according to...

https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download

Phil


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