I may be doing something wrong, but I have been trying to install pyside on Mac 10.12 (Sierra). Here is what I tried (after installing Qt with brew):
I still not have a solution, but I found an alternative.
First of all, I am not an expert (I am super new coding). Based on my own experience below you will find a solution as well.
I need to clarify something first, there are two ways to use this GUI QT - PyQt by Riverbank Computing or(and) PySide, originally developed by Nokia.
I tried many differents ways to install PySide on my MacOS Sierra version10.12.5, but no success, so I ended up finding PyQt, that does the same thing.
Watching this video I installed the PyQT5 in my Mac OS and now it is working. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kHk8ZjxH64
Example of Hello World using PyQT http://pythoncentral.io/intro-to-pysidepyqt-basic-widgets-and-hello-world/
The wiki.qt.io says "PySide has included support for Python 3.2 since version 1.0.8." but it doesn't work for me.
Good lucky.
This isn't the answer but unfortunately there has not been any output from pyside team for macOS sierra .Only supported OS from apple are
10.6 Snow LeopardOS X
10.7 LionOS X
10.8 Mountain LionOS X
10.9 MavericksOS X
10.10 Yosemite
Update : (You can try this still )
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/fdfc724dd532345f5c6cdf47dc43e99654e6a5fd/Formula/qt5.rb
brew install ./qt5.rb
If above lines doesn't work :
You’ll need the Xcode commandline tools:
xcode-select --install sudo xcodebuild -license
Then the following packages can be easily installed via brew:
brew install qt5 cmake libxslt libxml2
This will install Qt 5.6.1-1 and cmake 3.5.2 your system
Now time to clone ! Not from github but from this link : So Clone the pyside-setup repository and have it also pull down its gitmodules:
git clone --recursive https://codereview.qt-project.org/pyside/pyside-setup
This command worked fine for people using Python 2.7.11 and Python 3.5.1. Remember to have pip installed with the wheel package or you’ll get an error about bdist_wheel.
python setup.py bdist_wheel --ignore-git --qmake=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.6.1-1/bin/qmake --cmake=/usr/local/bin/cmake --openssl=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2h_1/bin
(Note : The exact paths given in the arguments may not be identical on your system so verify those prior to compiling)
Install the wheel :
A wheel was hopefully built in the dist folder. So just cd dist and pip install away!
Notes on pre-compiled wheels
Unfortunately, and like with PySide, these wheels are not “portable” and won’t install on systems which doesn’t already have the specific Qt5 version installed used during compilation. This, I believe, is because PySide2 links dynamically (instead of statically) against the Qt5 installation. Hopefully, this is something The Qt Company will address via official PySide2 wheels, as Riverbank Software is now providing a fully portable PyQt5 wheel for Python 3 which is absolutely awesome.
New Repository (not from github)
Reference
I have MAC osSierra (10.12.6). I needed to install PySide 1.2.4 for Python 3.3.6. I did the following to build and install PySide 1.2.4 that I need. You can do the following for any Python 3.3.x, I guess.
I am a newbie to Mac and Python. Please ignore if I have any mistakes.
You need QT4 to install PySide on 10.11 (not sure about 10.12).
Install QT5 either via Brew or via installer, get cmake via brew and get the latest PySide source (https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PySide/PySide-1.2.4.tar.gz
) Run the following to get Qt4:
brew tap cartr/qt4
brew tap-pin cartr/qt4
brew install qt_4
Once you do so; cd in the source folder and run the following to build:
python setup.py bdist_wheel --ignore-git --qmake=[QMAKE_FROM_QT4_PATH] --cmake=[YOUR_CMAKE_PATH]
cd dist
pip install [YOUR_BUILT_PYSIDE_WHEEL]
Once you do so, you can check that PySide is working correctly, opening a Python console and typing import PySide
You need a specific version of Qt and pyside.
Install both the QT 4.8.5 package as well as pyside from the Mac installers on the page below:
https://wiki.qt.io/PySide_Binaries_MacOSX
The Mac steps from here worked for me: https://fredrikaverpil.github.io/2016/08/17/compiling-pyside2/
You’ll need the Xcode commandline tools:
xcode-select --install
sudo xcodebuild -license
Then the following packages, easily installed via brew:
brew install qt5 cmake libxslt libxml2
Clone the pyside-setup repository and have it also pull down its gitmodules:
git clone --recursive https://codereview.qt-project.org/pyside/pyside-setup
Build it. This command worked fine for me using Python 2.7.11 and Python 3.5.1. Remember to have pip installed with the wheel package or you’ll get an error about bdist_wheel.
cd pyside-setup
python setup.py bdist_wheel --ignore-git --qmake=/usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.6.1-1/bin/qmake --cmake=/usr/local/bin/cmake --openssl=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2h_1/bin
Last but not least, install the wheel:
cd dist
pip install PySide2-2.0.0.dev0-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_12_x86_64.whl
All credits go to Fredrik Averpil's wonderful post.