Qt for Python/GettingStarted/X11

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Requirements

• GCC (Linux)
• Python from https://www.python.org/downloads/ (Python 3.6 or Python 2.7)
• Qt 5.6+
• CLANG 3.9 (for 5.9+ branches)
• OpenSSL 1.0
• CMake from https://cmake.org/download/ (>= 3.1)
• LLVM
• virtualenv (optional but recommended)
• Python sphinx package for documentation (optional, pip install sphinx)

Building from sources

Setting up CLANG

• Download libclang, e.g.

wget http://download.qt.io/development_releases/prebuilt/libclang/libclang-release_39-linux-Rhel7.2-gcc5.3-x86_64.7z

• Extract the files, e.g.

7z x libclang-release_39-linux-Rhel7.2-gcc5.3-x86_64.7z                             

• Export the installation path to the path you choosed to place the files

export CLANG_INSTALL_DIR=$PWD/libclang                                               
                                                                                    

Getting PySide2

• Clonning the official repository

git clone --recursive https://codereview.qt-project.org/pyside/pyside-setup         

• Checking out the version that we want to build, e.g. 5.9 (Keep in mind you need to use the same version as your Qt installation)

cd pyside-setup && git checkout 5.9                                                                 

Building PySide2

• Check your Qt installation path, to specifically use that version of qmake to build PySide2:

which qmake

• Check your OpenSSL installation path, to specify it to build PySide2:

which openssl

• Build can take a few minutes, so it is recommended to use more than one CPU core (e.g. 8). Remember to replace the paths to your current qmake and openssl path:

python setup.py build --qmake=/path/to/qmake  --openssl=/path/to/openssl --build-tests --ignore-git --jobs=8
                                                                                    

Installing PySide2

• To install on the current directory, just run:

python setup.py install --qmake=/path/to/qmake  --openssl=/path/to/openssl --build-tests --ignore-git --jobs=8
                                                                                    

Test installation

• You can execute one of the examples to verify the process is properly working.
• Remember to properly set the environment variables for Qt and PySide2.

python examples/examples/widgets/widgets/tetrix.py
               

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
• examples/

Contributions follow the standard process.

It is helpful to have debug binaries and/or symbols for Python available. On Linux, debug packages can be installed separately. For Ubuntu, the packages python3-dbg, libpython3-dbg provide a debug binary python3-dbg.

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 Linux, the command

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

creates a Virtual Environment named testenv for debugging purposes.