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democrite · 12-11-2021, 11:53 PM

Becoming unpleasant as you can understand.

I forgot what error. Something when trying to compile arm64 on Intel. Maybe some unneeded patch for Big Sur. Forgot. Hard to keep track of everything.

MacPorts got QtWebEngine working on Monterey so I'm going with their Qt5. For my purposes, maybe ok. Patches got merged earlier today:

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/12595

So, starting again with Python 3.9. Lost track. Same Unable to generate C++ code with PyQt5. Last time I installed that and PyQtWebEngine with sip, yet without completing Sigil build, at least for me, I'm unsure how that'd turn out.

If it's preferable to build PyQt5 + PyQtWebEngine oneself, unable to figure out what sip version to use. MacPorts uses 6.(?), likely newest. Maybe 5.5.0 would work. For either, there's no configure.py, and from a bit of looking (heading out at the moment, but wanted to update), I'm not sure how to build newer sip versions. Docs I could find aren't helpful.

Overall, if it is possible to build Apple Silicon on Intel, or for other reasons, would someday you Kevin and DiapDealer consider maintaining forks of Qt5 with all the patches? I have no idea how many others contribute to Sigil. Perhaps it is only me here that is trying first (?) to build for AS, plus Monterey, that there are these unknowns. Maybe whenever you get to building for Apple Silicon - I hope soon if possible (!) -, no one else would need such. Maybe there's no other need for Qt 5.15.2 except such, save when you decide to migrate. Perhaps in preparation, you may try it, and document the needed steps, yet maybe there's no need at the moment, and such is much to ask. Who knows. Just an thought.

For the moment, just curious if PyQt5 + PyQtWebEngine are ok thru pip, or if preferable to compile, a bit of direction to get sip 5+ compiled would be helpful.

12-11-2021, 11:53 PM	#40
democrite Evangelist Posts: 441 Karma: 77256 Join Date: Sep 2011 Device: none	Becoming unpleasant as you can understand. I forgot what error. Something when trying to compile arm64 on Intel. Maybe some unneeded patch for Big Sur. Forgot. Hard to keep track of everything. MacPorts got QtWebEngine working on Monterey so I'm going with their Qt5. For my purposes, maybe ok. Patches got merged earlier today: https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/12595 So, starting again with Python 3.9. Lost track. Same Unable to generate C++ code with PyQt5. Last time I installed that and PyQtWebEngine with sip, yet without completing Sigil build, at least for me, I'm unsure how that'd turn out. If it's preferable to build PyQt5 + PyQtWebEngine oneself, unable to figure out what sip version to use. MacPorts uses 6.(?), likely newest. Maybe 5.5.0 would work. For either, there's no configure.py, and from a bit of looking (heading out at the moment, but wanted to update), I'm not sure how to build newer sip versions. Docs I could find aren't helpful. Overall, if it is possible to build Apple Silicon on Intel, or for other reasons, would someday you Kevin and DiapDealer consider maintaining forks of Qt5 with all the patches? I have no idea how many others contribute to Sigil. Perhaps it is only me here that is trying first (?) to build for AS, plus Monterey, that there are these unknowns. Maybe whenever you get to building for Apple Silicon - I hope soon if possible (!) -, no one else would need such. Maybe there's no other need for Qt 5.15.2 except such, save when you decide to migrate. Perhaps in preparation, you may try it, and document the needed steps, yet maybe there's no need at the moment, and such is much to ask. Who knows. Just an thought. For the moment, just curious if PyQt5 + PyQtWebEngine are ok thru pip, or if preferable to compile, a bit of direction to get sip 5+ compiled would be helpful. Last edited by democrite; 12-12-2021 at 03:04 AM. Reason: typo