Qt for Python/GettingStarted/MacOS

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Requirements

• Qt package from https://www.qt.io or a custom build of Qt (preferably Qt 5.9 or Qt 5.6)
• Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ (Python 3.6 or Python 2.7)
• Xcode (macOS)
• CMake from https://cmake.org/download/ (>= 3.1)
• libclang (required for the 5.9 and dev branches) from download.qt.io (>= 3.9)
• LLVM
• virtualenv (optional but recommended)
• Python sphinx package for documentation (optional, pip install sphinx)

setup.py build script

Note: When doing local builds of Qt on macOS you will need to set either the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH environment variables.

Development

Development happens in the 5.9 and dev branches of the pyside-setup repository.

The top level repository has the following submodules:

• sources/pyside2-tools: uic, rcc tools

Contributions follow the standard process.·

It is helpful to have debug binaries and/or symbols for Python available. On macOS you will need to build the Python interpreter with debug symbols by hand.

It is also recommended to use a Virtual Environment for testing to be able to always start from a clean base and avoid issues with write permissions in installations.

On macOS, the command

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3-dbg testenv                                          

creates a Virtual Environment named testenv for debugging purposes.

Before building the first time, the module Sphinx should be installed into the virtual environment:

pip install sphinx