building pyqt5 from source

[Phil Thompson]

On 25/06/2022 21:35, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> On 2022-06-24 22:37, Scott Talbert wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> OK, so I managed to build PyQt5 5.15.7 using `pip install
> PyQt-Builder`, and everything appears to be working as before.
> 
> Now I'm trying to compile my own code, which requires the `sip.h`
> header (as I need to access from Python back to C++ using `sipAPIDef`
> et al. I assume I need to install SIP for this. What version(s) of SIP
> do I need, that is / are compatible with PyQt5 5.15.7 ? Anything 5.x ?

Always use the latest versions.

Phil
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