building pyqt5 from source

[Scott Talbert]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2022, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> On 2022-06-23 22:01, Scott Talbert wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I'm trying to build PyQt5.15.7 from source. 
>>> https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/news/PyQt_v5.15.7_Released indicates 
>>> that this requires "v12.11 of the sip module". How does this relate to 
>>> official SIP releases, which use versions 4.x, 5.x, 6.x ?
>> 
>> I believe that's referring to the *PyQt5-sip* module:
>> https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5-sip/
>
> Ah, thanks !
>
> So if I understand correctly, I need `PyQt5-sip` as runtime dependency for 
> PyQt5, and SIP itself (or the `PyQt-Builder` wrapper) only when building 
> PyQt5 myself, correct ?

Yes, I think that's right.

Scott