Install old version PyQt4 on a mac by compiling the source

[Giuseppe Corbelli]

On 8/6/21 12:19 PM, Felix Voigt wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have come one step further. As a workaround I have set a symbolic link:
> ln -s ../Cellar/qt at 4/4.8.7_6/include/QtCore Q/usr/local/include/QtCore
> 
> Now the output after
> ~/.pyenv/versions/2.7.18/bin/python2.7 configure.py --qmake /usr/local/Cellar/qt at 4/4.8.7_6/bin/qmake --sip=/Users/felixvoigt/.pyenv/versions/2.7.17/bin/sip —verbose
> is
> 
> Determining the layout of your Qt installation...
> /usr/local/Cellar/qt at 4/4.8.7_6/bin/qmake -spec macx-llvm -o qtdirs.mk qtdirs.pro
> make -f qtdirs.mk
> llvm-g++ -c -pipe -O2 -arch x86_64 -Wall -W -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_CORE_LIB -DQT_SHARED -I/usr/local/etc/qt4/mkspecs/macx-llvm -I. -I/usr/local/Cellar/qt at 4/4.8.7_6/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers -I/usr/local/include -I. -F/usr/local/lib -o qtdirs.o qtdirs.cpp
> warning: include path for stdlibc++ headers not found; pass '-stdlib=libc++' on the command line to use the libc++ standard library instead [-Wstdlibcxx-not-found]
> In file included from qtdirs.cpp:1:
> In file included from /usr/local/Cellar/qt at 4/4.8.7_6/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers/QCoreApplication:1:
> In file included from /usr/local/Cellar/qt at 4/4.8.7_6/lib/QtCore.framework/Versions/4/Headers/qcoreapplication.h:45:
> In file included from /usr/local/include/QtCore/qobject.h:47:
> In file included from /usr/local/include/QtCore/qobjectdefs.h:45:
> In file included from /usr/local/include/QtCore/qnamespace.h:45:
> /usr/local/include/QtCore/qglobal.h:68:10: fatal error: 'algorithm' file not found
> #include <algorithm>
>           ^~~~~~~~~~~
> 1 warning and 1 error generated.
> make: *** [qtdirs.o] Error 1
> Error: Failed to determine the layout of your Qt installation. Try again using
> the --verbose flag to see more detail about the problem.

Well, I must admit that I have no macos experience and did not follow 
the thread but, naively, this looks like the std C++ library headers are 
not installed or not available in the compiler include paths.
algorithm is part of the standard C++ library

-- 
Giuseppe Corbelli