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[JakobDev]

It would be nice, if this can be publicised on PyPI. The installation is currently hard for Pytjhon developers who haven't worked with C/C++. And it can be added to the requirements, if it's on PyPI.

[willbelr]

A PyPi package would certainly be useful as it is the most reliable way to share PyQt apps across Linux distributions. Would also love to see this happen.

[yan12125]

That sounds a good idea but I have no experience on creating Python packages with C/C++ codes. Do you have an example setup.py?

[willbelr]

My experience is limited to python packages, so I'm not sure how it could be done for a package containing CPP source which require build steps and non-python packages such as lxqt-build-tools. Perhaps it should be compiled before hand?

#!/usr/bin/python3
import setuptools
import setuptools.command.build_py

# Useful resources;
# https://pypi.org/classifiers/
# https://docs.python.org/3.8/distutils/setupscript.html (about package_data and data_files)

VERSION = "0.16.1-2"
CLASSIFIERS = [
    "License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License v2 or later (LGPLv2+)",
    "License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License",
    "License :: Public Domain",
    "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
    "Operating System :: POSIX :: BSD",
    "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
]


class Example(setuptools.command.build_py.build_py):
    def run(self):
        """ Add custom build steps during install """
        pass
        setuptools.command.build_py.build_py.run(self)


def setup():
    setuptools.setup(
        name="QTermWidget",
        description="A terminal widget for Qt, used by QTerminal",
        keywords="Terminal, Qt, PyQt",
        url="https://github.com/lxqt/qtermwidget",
        author="LXQt",
        version=VERSION,
        classifiers=CLASSIFIERS,
        install_requires=["pyqt5", "lxqt-build-tools"],  # lxqt-build-tools is not valid PyPi pkg, is it required though?
        cmdclass={"build_py": Example},  # Optionally add custom build steps
        packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
        data_files=[],
        # package_data={"": ["ui/icons/*.svg"]},
        # entry_points={"gui_scripts": [f"{ID}={ID}:main"]},  # No entry point needed as this is not a standalone program
    )


if __name__ == "__main__":
    setup()

[willbelr]

I believe the good approach would be to create a python wheel, like PyQt5 uses for PyPi.

https://github.com/pypa/wheel

[irgolic]

Any workarounds for distributing PyQt applications with QTermWidget?

[yan12125]

I created a pull request to use SIP 5.x for PyQt bindings at #465. As a bonus, the build script now creates a Python wheel. Although it's not suitable for PyPI yet (it requires libqtermwidget5.so.1 installed beforehand), it's a big step towards it. I hope everyone using PyQt can test the wheel and share the results - either good or bad.

[nado218]

Iam new to pyQT and Iam trying to build python bindings for QtermWidget. I could compile and install qtermwidget library but when i try to create a python wheel using sip-wheel --verbose, i get the below error.
What iam I missing here. My library is installed in /usr/local/

cd QTermWidget/ && ( test -e Makefile || /usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake -o Makefile /tmp/tmp0cyt8_wt/QTermWidget/QTermWidget.pro ) && make -f Makefile
make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/tmp0cyt8_wt/QTermWidget'
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DPy_LIMITED_API=0x03080000 -DSIP_PROTECTED_IS_PUBLIC -Dprotected=public -DQT_NO_EXCEPTIONS -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_PLUGIN -DQT_WIDGETS_LIB -DQT_GUI_LIB -DQT_CORE_LIB -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/python3.10 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5 -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtWidgets -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtGui -I/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore -I. -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs/linux-g++ -o sipQTermWidgetcmodule.o sipQTermWidgetcmodule.cpp
/home/ndokuri/Qualcomm/QT5/qtermwidget/pyqt/sip/qtermwidget.sip:14:10: fatal error: qtermwidget.h: No such file or directory
14 | #include <qtermwidget.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.