request for release compatible with qt6 6.8.0

[Renee Otten]

Hi Phil, 

Thanks for the work to support Qt 6.8! 

When I try building the snapshots you mention, I see the following build error for PyQt6-WebEngine on macOS Sequoia:


:info:build /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/clang++ -c -pipe -stdlib=libc++ -O2 -std=gnu++1z  -arch x86_64 -isysroot /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=14
.0 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -fPIC -DPy_LIMITED_API=0x03080000 -DSIP_PROTECTED_IS_PUBLIC -Dprotected=public -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_WEBENGINECORE_LIB -DQT_QUICK_LIB -DQT_OPEN
GL_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_QMLMETA_LIB -DQT_QMLMODELS_LIB -DQT_QMLWORKERSCRIPT_LIB -DQT_WEBCHANNEL_LIB -DQT_QML_LIB -DQT_NETWORK_LIB -DQT_QMLINTEGRATION_LIB -DQT_POSITIONING_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I. -I.. -
I/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.12/include/python3.12 -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtWebEngineCore.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtQuick.framework/Headers -I/op
t/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtOpenGL.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtGui.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtQmlMeta.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtQmlModels.fr
amework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtQmlWorkerScript.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtWebChannel.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtQml.framework/Headers -I/opt/loc
al/libexec/qt6/lib/QtNetwork.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/include -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/include/QtQmlIntegration -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtPositioning.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/
libexec/qt6/lib/QtCore.framework/Headers -I. -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/
System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Headers -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGL.framework/Headers -I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.s
dk/System/Library/Frameworks/AGL.framework/Headers -I/opt/local/libexec/qt6/mkspecs/macx-clang -F/opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib -o sipQtWebEngineCoreQWebEngineFrame.o sipQtWebEngineCoreQWebEngineFrame.cpp
:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_renee_Software_macports-ports_python_py-pyqt6-webengine/py312-pyqt6-webengine/work/PyQt6_WebEngine-6.8.0.dev2410241448/sip/QtWebEngineCore/qwebengineframe.
sip:52:52: error: allocation of incomplete type 'QVariant'
:info:build    52 |             res = sipCallMethod(NULL, a1, "N", new QVariant(arg), sipType_QVariant, NULL);
:info:build       |                                                    ^~~~~~~~
:info:build /opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtCore.framework/Headers/qcontainerfwd.h:49:7: note: forward declaration of 'QVariant'
:info:build    49 | class QVariant;
:info:build       |       ^
:info:build /opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_renee_Software_macports-ports_python_py-pyqt6-webengine/py312-pyqt6-webengine/work/PyQt6_WebEngine-6.8.0.dev2410241448/sip/QtWebEngineCore/qwebengineframe.sip:79:52: error: allocation of incomplete type 'QVariant'
:info:build    79 |             res = sipCallMethod(NULL, a2, "N", new QVariant(arg), sipType_QVariant, NULL);
:info:build       |                                                    ^~~~~~~~
:info:build /opt/local/libexec/qt6/lib/QtCore.framework/Headers/qcontainerfwd.h:49:7: note: forward declaration of 'QVariant'
:info:build    49 | class QVariant;
:info:build       |       ^
:info:build 2 errors generated.
:info:build make[1]: *** [sipQtWebEngineCoreQWebEngineFrame.o] Error 1
:info:build make: *** [sub-QtWebEngineCore-make_first-ordered] Error 2
:info:build Command failed:  cd "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_Users_renee_Software_macports-ports_python_py-pyqt6-webengine/py312-pyqt6-webengine/work/PyQt6_WebEngine-6.8.0.dev2410241448" && sip-build-3.12 --qmake /opt/local/libexec/qt6/bin/qmake --verbose
:info:build Exit code: 1


Any insights on how to resolve this? 

Thanks,
Renee



> On Oct 29, 2024, at 8:00 AM, pyqt-request at riverbankcomputing.com wrote:
> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:54:46 +0100
> From: Thomas Klausner <wiz at gatalith.at>
> To: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
> Subject: request for release compatible with qt6 6.8.0
> Message-ID: <ZyCi1kJrGBKuBcjm at exadelic.gatalith.at>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> 
> Hi!
> 
> The current pyqt release 6.7.1 does not compile against qt6 6.8.0.
> 
> In pkgsrc (for which I'm packaging) we see:
> 
> /private/tmp/pkgsrc/x11/py-qt6/work/PyQt6-6.7.1/build/QtCore/sipQtCoreQXmlStreamEntityResolver.cpp:64:97: error: call to deleted constructor of '::QXmlStreamEntityResolver'
>  64 | sipQXmlStreamEntityResolver::sipQXmlStreamEntityResolver(const ::QXmlStreamEntityResolver& a0): ::QXmlStreamEntityResolver(a0), sipPySelf(SIP_NULLPTR)
>     |                                                                                                 ^                          ~~
> /tmp/pkgsrc/x11/py-qt6/work/.buildlink/qt6/include/QtCore/qxmlstream.h:220:25: note: 'QXmlStreamEntityResolver' has been explicitly marked deleted here
> 220 |     Q_DISABLE_COPY_MOVE(QXmlStreamEntityResolver)
>     |                         ^
> 
> I checked Arch Linux[1] and they are using a snapshot, so we switched
> pkgsrc to that too, and that fixed the compilation problem. But we
> prefer to use releases, so could you please make a "proper" release
> supporting qt6 6.8.0?
> 
> Thank you,
> Thomas
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pyqt6/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:25:18 +0000
> From: Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> To: Thomas Klausner <wiz at gatalith.at>
> Cc: pyqt at riverbankcomputing.com
> Subject: Re: request for release compatible with qt6 6.8.0
> Message-ID: <98f8e0e63e688d5a65d7ab60f61e1580 at riverbankcomputing.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
> 
> On 29/10/2024 08:54, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> The current pyqt release 6.7.1 does not compile against qt6 6.8.0.
>> 
>> In pkgsrc (for which I'm packaging) we see:
>> 
>> /private/tmp/pkgsrc/x11/py-qt6/work/PyQt6-6.7.1/build/QtCore/sipQtCoreQXmlStreamEntityResolver.cpp:64:97:
>> error: call to deleted constructor of '::QXmlStreamEntityResolver'
>>  64 | sipQXmlStreamEntityResolver::sipQXmlStreamEntityResolver(const
>> ::QXmlStreamEntityResolver& a0): ::QXmlStreamEntityResolver(a0),
>> sipPySelf(SIP_NULLPTR)
>>     |
>>                                ^                          ~~
>> /tmp/pkgsrc/x11/py-qt6/work/.buildlink/qt6/include/QtCore/qxmlstream.h:220:25:
>> note: 'QXmlStreamEntityResolver' has been explicitly marked deleted
>> here
>> 220 |     Q_DISABLE_COPY_MOVE(QXmlStreamEntityResolver)
>>     |                         ^
>> 
>> I checked Arch Linux[1] and they are using a snapshot, so we switched
>> pkgsrc to that too, and that fixed the compilation problem. But we
>> prefer to use releases, so could you please make a "proper" release
>> supporting qt6 6.8.0?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Thomas
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pyqt6/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads
> 
> It will be released when it is ready, I don't see any urgency. The 
> current snapshots are complete (although PyQt6-Graphs is still a work in 
> progress) but there are a lot of related changes that I want to make 
> sure aren't going to cause problems...
> 
> - support for Windows on Arm
> - support for Linux on Arm
> - support for Python v3.13
> - drop support for Python v3.8
> - a new build environment to support the new architectures
> 
> I'm currently working on fixing bugs in Qt v6.8.0 which I hope will make 
> it into v6.8.1. I may delay the release of PyQt6 v6.8.0 until Qt v6.8.1 
> is released.
> 
> Phil