Build failure: sip/QtCore/qprocess.sip: line 99: column 5: 'Q_PID' is undefined

[Phil Thompson]

On 15/09/2023 00:18, Nick Guenther wrote:
> I am struggling to build PyQt5. It tells me "'Q_PID' is undefined"
> while trying to build pylupdate.
> I seem to not be the only one running into this either:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/75802415/2898673
> 
> Here's a complete build log:
> 
> nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp$ cd "$(mktemp -d)"
> nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl$ curl -fJLO
> https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/5c/46/b4b6eae1e24d9432905ef1d4e7c28b6610e28252527cdc38f2a759
> 7d8b5/PyQt5-5.15.9.tar.gz
> % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
> Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> 100 3165k 100 3165k 0 0 14.1M 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 14.1M
> nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl$ tar -zxf PyQt5-5.15.9.tar.gz
> nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl$ cd PyQt5-5.15.9
> nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9$ python -m venv
> build-tools
> nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9$ .
> build-tools/bin/activate
> (build-tools) nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9$ 
> python -V
> Python 3.10.12
> (build-tools) nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9$ 
> pip -V
> pip 22.0.2 from
> /tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9/build-tools/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pip
> (python 3.10)
> (build-tools) nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9$
> pip install PyQt-builder
> Collecting PyQt-builder
> Downloading PyQt_builder-1.15.2-py3-none-any.whl (3.7 MB)
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.7/3.7 MB 36.3 MB/s eta 
> 0:00:00
> Collecting sip<7,>=6.7
> Downloading
> sip-6.7.11-cp37-abi3-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.whl (885
> kB)
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 885.8/885.8 KB 152.0 MB/s eta 
> 0:00:00
> Collecting packaging
> Downloading packaging-23.1-py3-none-any.whl (48 kB)
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 48.9/48.9 KB 164.2 MB/s eta 
> 0:00:00
> Collecting tomli
> Downloading tomli-2.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (12 kB)
> Requirement already satisfied: setuptools in
> ./build-tools/lib/python3.10/site-packages (from
> sip<7,>=6.7->PyQt-builder) (59.6.0)
> Collecting ply
> Downloading ply-3.11-py2.py3-none-any.whl (49 kB)
> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 49.6/49.6 KB 147.9 MB/s eta 
> 0:00:00
> Installing collected packages: ply, tomli, packaging, sip, PyQt-builder
> Successfully installed PyQt-builder-1.15.2 packaging-23.1 ply-3.11
> sip-6.7.11 tomli-2.0.1
> (build-tools) nick.guenther at joplin:/tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9$ 
> sip-install
> Querying qmake about your Qt installation...
> This is the GPL version of PyQt 5.15.9 (licensed under the GNU General
> Public License) for Python
> 3.10.12 on linux.
> 
> Type 'L' to view the license.
> Type 'yes' to accept the terms of the license.
> Type 'no' to decline the terms of the license.
> 
> Do you accept the terms of the license? yes
> Found the license file 'pyqt-gpl.sip'.
> Checking to see if the QtCore bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtNetwork bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtGui bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtWidgets bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtQml bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QAxContainer bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtAndroidExtras bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtBluetooth bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtDBus bindings can be built...
> The QtDesigner bindings are disabled with a static Qt installation...
> Checking to see if the Enginio bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtHelp bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtMacExtras bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtMultimedia bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtMultimediaWidgets bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtNfc bindings can be built...
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> Checking to see if the QtX11Extras bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtXml bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the QtXmlPatterns bindings can be built...
> Checking to see if the dbus-python support should be built...
> The dbus-python package does not seem to be installed.
> These bindings will be built: Qt, pylupdate, pyrcc.
> Generating the Qt bindings...
> Generating the pylupdate bindings...
> sip-install: /tmp/tmp.Q6ZiuHDgyl/PyQt5-5.15.9/sip/QtCore/qprocess.sip:
> line 99: column 5: 'Q_PID'
> is undefined
> 
> Are releng scripts anywhere? I tried to find a CI system to look for 
> clues about
> mistakes I made but I couldn't find one.
> 
> My goal here is to produce a macos_10_13_aarch64.whl that people in my
> lab who have macbook M1s can
> use. Is it okay if I distribute that within my lab? What if I publish
> it to a github releases
> page?

That looks like a Qt installation (ie. static) that I don't test.

Coincidentally I'm currently working on PyQt5 wheels on Apple silicon 
based on Qt v5.15.10. I hope to have experimental wheels available over 
the weekend.

Phil