Compiling PyQt6

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Thu Sep 14 18:13:23 BST 2023


On 14/09/2023 18:03, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade from PyQt5 to PyQt6, using a custom build of 
> PyQt6.
> Everything works fine, but the `PyQt6.Qt` module is missing.

PyQt6 doesn't have a PyQt6.Qt module.

> I notice pypi offering both PyQt6 as well as PyQt6-Qt packages. 
> However,
> only the former provides an associated source package.
> Why are they split, and what does the latter contain ? How can I build 
> that
> myself ?

PyQt6-Qt contains the parts of the LGPL version of Qt relevant to PyQt6 
packaged as a wheel.

Phil


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