ios: PyQt incorrectly including QProcess

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Tue Apr 8 09:45:16 BST 2025


On 08/04/2025 05:31, Patrick Stinson wrote:
> The disabled_features sections of the pyproject.toml that the PyQt
> plugin writes are empty. That doesn’t seem right, shouldn’t it include
> PyQt_Process?

Yes, if they are defined in your sysroot.toml file.

Phil

> [tool.sip.bindings.QtCore]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtGui]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtNetwork]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtWidgets]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtMacExtras]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtQml]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtQuick]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
> [tool.sip.bindings.QtQuickWidgets]
> static = true
> disabled-features = []
> 
>> On Apr 7, 2025, at 9:22 AM, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Now I’m running into a related problem during the PyQt build:
>> 
>> /Users/patrick/dev/lib/Qt/5.15.2/ios/include/QtCore/qglobal.h:294:33: 
>> note: expanded from macro 'QT_DEPRECATED_X'
>>  294 | #  define QT_DEPRECATED_X(text) Q_DECL_DEPRECATED_X(text)
>>      |                                 ^
>> /Users/patrick/dev/lib/Qt/5.15.2/ios/include/QtCore/qcompilerdetection.h:675:55: 
>> note: expanded from macro 'Q_DECL_DEPRECATED_X'
>>  675 | #    define Q_DECL_DEPRECATED_X(text) __attribute__ 
>> ((__deprecated__(text)))
>>      |                                                       ^
>> /var/folders/cm/xhqjxbbn6qx1pvft5cw1gdg40000gn/T/tmpgeo7rte2/QtCore/sipQtCorepart0.cpp:73375:30: 
>> error: expected class name
>> 73375 | class sipQProcess : public ::QProcess
>> 
>>> On Apr 6, 2025, at 9:49 AM, Patrick Stinson <patrickkidd at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Actually, I removed the “disabled features” section in my toml and it 
>>> fixed it. Must have broken some part of the dependency matrix that 
>>> makes the PyQt_Process flag work.
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 6, 2025, at 1:47 AM, Phil Thompson 
>>>> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/04/2025 06:29, Patrick Stinson wrote:
>>>>> I am getting this error on PyQt5 building a pyqtdeploy sysroot for 
>>>>> iOS:
>>>>> qobject.sip:380:10: error: use of undeclared identifier 
>>>>> ‘sipName_QProcess'
>>>>> qobject.sip:380:29: error: use of undeclared identifier 
>>>>> ‘sipType_QProcess'
>>>>> Those lines show:
>>>>>  #if !defined(QT_NO_PROCESS)
>>>>>      {sipName_QProcess, &sipType_QProcess, -1, -1},
>>>>>  #else
>>>>> So I guess QT_NO_PROCESS is not getting defined or something since
>>>>> QProcess is not available on iOS.
>>>>> I do still see PyQt_Process in disabled_features in my sysroot.toml
>>>>> which worked some years ago…
>>>>> [PyQt.ios]
>>>>> disabled_features = [
>>>>>  "PyQt_Desktop_OpenGL", "PyQt_MacOSXOnly",
>>>>>  "PyQt_MacCocoaViewContainer", "PyQt_Printer",
>>>>>  "PyQt_PrintDialog", "PyQt_PrintPreviewDialog",
>>>>>  "PyQt_PrintPreviewWidget", "PyQt_Process",
>>>>>  "PyQt_NotBootstrapped"
>>>>> ]
>>>>> installed_modules = [
>>>>>  "QtCore", "QtGui", "QtNetwork", "QtWidgets",
>>>>>  "QtMacExtras", "QtQml", "QtQuick", "QtQuickWidgets"
>>>>> ]
>>>>> Any idea how to fix it? Cheers,
>>>>> -Patrick
>>>> 
>>>> That's usually a sign of remnants from a previous build or a 
>>>> misconfigured build system.
>>>> 
>>>> Phil
>>> 
>> 


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