Building PySide

Attention

This is a page dedicated to PySide (Qt4). For recent development on PySide2 (Qt5) and PySide6 (Qt6) refer to Qt for Python

Building PySide

Getting the source code

The source code for the current stable release can be downloaded from PySideDownloads.

Alternatively, you can get the latest development branch from the read-only repos:

git clone git://code.qt.io/pyside/apiextractor.git
git clone git://code.qt.io/pyside/generatorrunner.git
git clone git://code.qt.io/pyside/shiboken.git
git clone git://code.qt.io/pyside/pyside.git
git clone git://gitorious.org/pyside/pyside-tools.git

You can also use the web interface at gitorious

If you intend to contribute patches, you should follow Qt Code review guidelines and use the gerrit repositories at:

ssh://codereview.qt.io:29418/pyside/shiboken.git
ssh://codereview.qt.io:29418/pyside/pyside.git

Specific instructions for each platform

• Building_PySide_on_Linux
• Building_PySide_on_Mac_OS_X
• Building_PySide_on_Windows
• Building_PySide_on_Symbian