newbie to Pyside

[Rajesh]

Hi,

I am trying to build Pyside on a Linux box at work.  I downloaded the 3 tar files:

Source code

The source code for latest PySide release can be downloaded from the links below:

• shiboken-1.1.1.tar.bz2 [pyside.org]
• pyside-qt4.8+1.1.1.tar.bz2 [pyside.org]
• pyside-tools-0.2.13.tar.bz2 [pyside.org]

from http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:LanguageBindings::PySide::Downloads

Is there a webpage that describes what I should built first?

I looked inside the directories for each of these packages, I can't find a file (like BUILD, INSTALLATION, README etc) that describes how I should build each package.

All suggestions on how I compile all these and start using Pyside quickly will be much appreciated! :) 

Regards

Rajesh

[Yann Lanthony]

Hi,

What you are looking for is located here : https://github.com/PySide/packaging (maintained by Roman Lacko)

The build script (build.py) is inside the setuptools folder as well as an INSTALL file that explains how to use it, the needed dependencies etc... It automatically clones the needed pyside repositories so you don't have to manually download the archives you mention.

On linux the build should work (there was a bug on Windows with Qt4.8 the last time I tried).

I've spent a lot of time dealing with PySide manual build lately, so if you have any other question I will be glad to help.

Regards,

Yann

[aspidites]

Unfortunately, the section of the INSTALL file marked for linux is tagged as "TODO" :-(

[aspidites]

The Correct link seems to be https://github.com/PySide/BuildScripts

[Yann Lanthony]

The correct link is actually the one I gave earlier, I am pretty sure of this :)

To build PySide on Linux, you will mainly have to follow what is explain in the INSTALL file for Windows since the build is supposed to be cross-platform. It consists in launching the build.py script that clones the needed repositories and execute cmake inside each downloaded modules (shiboken, PySide, PySide Tools).

I will try on Linux to see if there is any special tricks to do and will give you the way to proceed.

Yann