install pyqt6-tools error

[Lee-hao-hao]

I'm using pyqt6 as a ui for but no matter what i do i keep getting the same error

C:\Users\Ｌ>pip install pyqt6-tools
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pyqt6-tools
Using cached pyqt6_tools-6.4.2.3.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.3 kB)
Collecting click (from pyqt6-tools)
Using cached click-8.2.0-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (2.5 kB)
Collecting pyqt6==6.4.2 (from pyqt6-tools)
Using cached PyQt6-6.4.2-cp37-abi3-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.2 kB)
INFO: pip is looking at multiple versions of pyqt6-tools to determine which version is compatible with other requirements. This could take a while.
Collecting pyqt6-tools
Using cached pyqt6_tools-6.3.1.3.3-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.3 kB)
Collecting pyqt6==6.3.1 (from pyqt6-tools)
Using cached PyQt6-6.3.1-cp37-abi3-win_amd64.whl.metadata (2.2 kB)
Collecting pyqt6-tools
Using cached pyqt6_tools-6.1.0.3.2-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (8.3 kB)
Collecting pyqt6==6.1.0 (from pyqt6-tools)
Using cached PyQt6-6.1.0.tar.gz (946 kB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [32 lines of output]
pyproject.toml: line 7: using '[tool.sip.metadata]' to specify the project metadata is deprecated and will be removed in SIP v7.0.0, use '[project]' instead
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python313\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 389, in
main()
~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python313\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 373, in main
json_out["return_val"] = hook(**hook_input["kwargs"])
~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python313\site-packages\pip_vendor\pyproject_hooks_in_process_in_process.py", line 178, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
whl_basename = backend.build_wheel(metadata_directory, config_settings)
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cacrey5e\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\api.py", line 28, in build_wheel
project = AbstractProject.bootstrap('wheel',
arguments=_convert_config_settings(config_settings))
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cacrey5e\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\abstract_project.py", line 74, in bootstrap
project.setup(pyproject, tool, tool_description)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cacrey5e\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\project.py", line 629, in setup
self.apply_user_defaults(tool)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-2h61sz0h\pyqt6_1e1ef139fdd34e2795a389b54b757bbe\project.py", line 60, in apply_user_defaults
super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cacrey5e\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pyqtbuild\project.py", line 51, in apply_user_defaults
super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cacrey5e\overlay\Lib\site-packages\sipbuild\project.py", line 243, in apply_user_defaults
self.builder.apply_user_defaults(tool)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Ｌ\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-env-cacrey5e\overlay\Lib\site-packages\pyqtbuild\builder.py", line 49, in apply_user_defaults
raise PyProjectOptionException('qmake',
"specify a working qmake or add it to PATH")
sipbuild.pyproject.PyProjectOptionException
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[Mythobeast]

Check your version of Python. PyQt tools doesn't support Python more recent than 3.9.

[howardjones]

In other words it now doesn't support any supported version of Python - 3.9 is no longer supported or patched and the last installer for it was released in 2022...

[altendky]

yep, i'm still sorry and i still want to get back to this at some point... i do apologize for letting you all down though. :[ each time i get back to this and put in a couple full days i get stuck on something somewhere in the build. now i'm tempted to consolidate these back to a single repo but still with the four separate projects. also, to make the plugins project, the most complicated, an optional extra of the tools package. most people don't care about the plugins i think, though they were actually the original reason i made the project (since pyqt didn't publish built versions of them) and those are what are actually python version specific.

no promises on actually making a fix, but i do have an intended path and desire to address this bad situation. :| i've just had other projects i've given priority.

[howardjones]

No pressure from me! I know how that works...

Just pointing out that "just stick with 3.9" isn't necessarily an option for everyone.

[rcardenes]

@altendky So far I'm circumventing this issue with the out-of-date pyqt[5,6]-tools by just having a venv with Python 3.9 only for generation (using pyuic, mostly). It kind of works.

Ideally of course we should move forward. Can you point to specific problems where you're getting stuck to lend a hand?

Note: I've seen #132. If that's the main issue I can help with debugging on Macos (on an M3 Mac)

[altendky]

@rcardenes i apologize for leaving you hanging with that offer. :[

that was the main issue at least a year and a half ago... i don't know presently. i do have some hope again to get back to this and finish some simplification efforts on it now that i've gotten fairly productive with ai tooling over the past few months. but i haven't quite prioritized this yet. i just triggered a re-run over at altendky/pyqt-plugins#21.

big picture i intend to shift this towards a monorepo setup. i'm mostly not a big monorepo fan, but it gets pretty old trying to handle four layers of PRs with extra rebuilding in ci for every previous layer etc vs. just one pr where i can work all four layers at once without the rebuild ci overhead. i also intend to make the pyqt-plugins an optional dependency since it is the most troublesome package and also, i think, the least used of the four. just to give you some idea what else i might (at least wishfully) get around to.