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[echosori]

Hi,
I installed pyqt5 with CLI command "pip3 install pyqt5".
But when I install PyQt5-tools with the same way : pip3 install PyQt5-tools, it shows message below:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement PyQt5-tools (from versions: )
No matching distribution found for PyQt5-tools

I have read other issues, and I know maybe it is too big to put it on pypi.

Do anybody knows how to install PyQt5-tools on mac?
THX.

[altendky]

I'm sorry but pyqt5-tools is Windows-only at this point. I started trying to make a Linux version awhile back but did not complete it. If I remember correctly, that was the travis branch.

Are you writing a custom widget you want available in Qt Designer? That's the primary reason for using pyqt5-tools, it comes with a built copy of the PyQt Designer plugin. Otherwise, you could just install the regular Qt package and use its tools.

[altendky]

I've been reworking the build for PyQt 5.14+ and went ahead and included Linux and macOS as well. Don't get too excited, they are all in progress and the macOS wheel needs the most work... but it exists.

http://permanent.fstab.net/python/wheels/pyqt5_tools-5.14.1.1.6rc1.post144-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl

Mostly I'm posting here in case anyone thinks they could offer any help. I don't have any access to macOS at this point though I've considered buying a basic one or renting a vm or whatever in some cloud somewhere. Recommendations welcome.

If I make any milestones, I will of course share. The two points I think I need to work on next are getting a shared Python build so the Designer and QML plugins will build and putting together a system to collect application dependencies (the .frameworks I think? maybe macholib?).

[The-Compiler]

I don't have any access to macOS at this point though I've considered buying a basic one or renting a vm or whatever in some cloud somewhere. Recommendations welcome.

You'd likely qualify for a free cloud-hosted Mac Mini from MacStadium's Open Source Project.

[altendky]

Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe... I'm not billing for my present pyqt5-tools work but I do sometimes. Not sure I can claim it has three months of active development or an active community. And I would have to make a logo... :] But maybe.

[abnerh69]

Hi @altendky, maybe we (me and my team) can be the little of help for this pyqt5-tools for macOS and Linux.

[abnerh69]

On macOS Catalina Version 10.15.3, Python 3.6.5, pip 20.0.2, I received this error message:

pip install pyqt5_tools-5.14.1.1.6rc1.post144-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl

ERROR: pyqt5_tools-5.14.1.1.6rc1.post144-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl is not a supported wheel on this platform.

[altendky]

@abnerh69, thanks for the interest and offer, let's see what we can do. If you use IRC you can catch me in #pyqt on freenode for more interactivity. Or stay here. FYI, I do have the Linux stuff running as far as Designer and the PyQt Designer plugin (with my custom widgets).

I went and got myself distracted on some other tasks. I really wish I could just make the GitHub Actions artifacts public but I haven't out how to do that. So here's another manual share. :[

http://permanent.fstab.net/python/wheels/pyqt5_tools-5.14.1.1.6rc1.post173-cp38-cp38-macosx_10_13_x86_64.whl

So, the first issue is you are running Python 3.6. This file is definitely for CPython 3.8 (that's the cp38). I do plan to build for all supported Python versions so that isn't an issue long term, but is for these files. Do you have a copy of 3.8 you can try with? If not but you already have a way you like to manage your Pythons, that's great. I like https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv in Linux and know of a few people that like it on macOS as well. Or, it wouldn't be a big deal to matrix against 3.6 for now as well (GitHub Actions gives 20x parallel builds so...).

If interested, you could try building the branch yourself too. I'll set some defaults or something later but for now you do have to set some environment variables (fill in sensible values like QT_VERSION=5.14.1 rather than the matrix... stuff).

https://github.com/altendky/pyqt5-tools/blob/d5454d902e22ddc2a49b6d113e9a262c9bee832e/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L46-L49

And then build as in ci.yml. Well, maybe drop the --no-clean so pip will clean up after itself. My previous build setup (on master) is terrible, do not run that. It likes to install lots of stuff in your system. The new one in the 5.14 branch should be clean.

https://github.com/altendky/pyqt5-tools/blob/d5454d902e22ddc2a49b6d113e9a262c9bee832e/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L93

Thanks again for the interest and help. Hopefully it doesn't take too much to iron out the rest of the details.

[altendky]

It looks like I may be mistaken and if you are logged in to GitHub you can maybe get the wheels (in .zip files) directly yourself.

https://github.com/altendky/pyqt5-tools/pull/41/checks

Then click the CI entry on the left.

The artifacts list on the right is what I'm referring to. Let me know if you can download those files directly, that would save me copying to my own site. :]

[altendky]

@abnerh69, I just added a macOS py3.6 build so artifacts should go up within maybe 20 minutes.

https://github.com/altendky/pyqt5-tools/actions/runs/43048508

[altendky]

Or not, twice now it's hung after installing Qt. I'll have to add some checkpoint prints to see what's up. Or ssh in or somesuch.

[altendky]

The hang seems to be miurahr/aqtinstall#91 which seems to apply to Python <3.7.

[altendky]

@abnerh69, finally got enough through the aqt issues to get a py36 wheel for you. I haven't done any testing with it.

https://github.com/altendky/pyqt5-tools/suites/483393254/artifacts/2260293

[nems808]

I stumbled upon issue thread searching for pyqt designer for mac because I wrote a custom widget (for matplotlib plot) that I want to be available in the designer (the widget works on Windows)
I was able to successfully install your py36 wheel on my mac but I am not sure where to go from here next. How do you start the GUI? I tried running pyqt5designer and this is the error I get:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/myname/UHSLC/QCVirtualEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyqt5_tools/Qt/bin/designer': '/Users/myname/UHSLC/QCVirtualEnv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pyqt5_tools/Qt/bin/designer'

The ''/pyqt5_tools/Qt/' folder exists but I only have lib and plugins folders in it. There is no 'bin' folder.

Is there something else I need to do? Thank you for your time.