PyQt6 and SIP v6 Snapshots Available

[Phil Thompson]

On 01/12/2020 11:38, Phil Thompson wrote:
> 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

Sorry, just realised those instructions are wrong. Now fixed.

To install the PyQt6.sip module...

sip-module --sdist PyQt6.sip
pip install PyQt6_sip-13.0.0.tar.gz

Phil