pyqt-demo

The pyqtdeploy source package contains a demo application called pyqt-demo which can be found in the demo sub-directory.

The demo consists of:

• pyqt-demo.py which is the source code of the demo

• sysroot.toml which is the sysroot specification used by pyqtdeploy-sysroot to build a target-specific sysroot

• pyqt-demo.pdt which is the pyqtdeploy project file describing the application and its components

• build-demo.py which is a simple script to run pyqtdeploy-sysroot and pyqtdeploy-build to create the demo executable

Note that executables can be created for all supported targets without requiring any changes to any of the above.

When run, the demo displays a GUI table of interesting values including a copy of the source code itself.

Throughout the rest of this documentation the demo will be used as a working example which we will look at in detail.

Note

It is recommended that, at first, you use the same versions (as specified in sysroot.toml) of the different component packages shown above. Only when you have those working should you then use the versions that you really want to use. This will require you to modify sysroot.toml and/or pyqt-demo.pdt.

Building the Demo

To build the demo for the native target, run:

python build-demo.py

The sysroot that will be created will contain the following components:

• Python

• Qt

• OpenSSL

• zlib

• SIP

• PyQt

• PyQt3D

• PyQtChart

• PyQtDataVisualization

• PyQtNetworkAuth

• PyQtPurchasing

• QScintilla

If you don’t want to build all of these then edit sysroot.toml and remove the ones you don’t want. (The Python, Qt, SIP and PyQt components are required.)

Note that, on Linux, macOS and Windows, Qt will be built from source which can take a significant amount of time.

If you are building the demo for either Android or iOS then you must also install an appropriate version of Qt from an installer from The Qt Company as pyqtdeploy-sysroot does not support building Qt from source for those platforms. The --qmake option must be used to specify the full path name of the qmake executable.

build-demo.py has a number of other command line options. To see them all, run:

python build-demo.py --help

Note

You must ensure that the target-specific development environment (e.g. Android Studio, MSVC, Xcode) is installed and properly configured on your system. With a Linux target you must also ensure that the development packages required to build Qt are installed. The names of these packages vary depending on the Linux distribution - please see the Qt documentation.

Android

Host platform used: macOS Monterey (v12.6.1)

Development tools used: NDK r21d, SDK build tools v33.0.0

Python SSL support implemented: dynamically linked bundled OpenSSL.

Qt SSL support implemented: dynamically linked bundled OpenSSL.

Environment: ANDROID_NDK_PLATFORM=android-24

iOS

Host platform used: macOS Monterey (v12.6.1)

Development tools used: Xcode v13.2.1

Python SSL support implemented: none.

Qt SSL support implemented: dynamically linked Secure Transport.

Linux

Host platform used: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS

Development tools used: gcc v9.4.0

Python SSL support implemented: dynamically linked system OpenSSL

Qt SSL support implemented: dynamically linked system OpenSSL

macOS

Host platform used: macOS Monterey (v12.6.1)

Development tools used: Xcode v12.4

Python SSL support implemented: statically linked OpenSSL.

Qt SSL support implemented: statically linked OpenSSL.

Windows

Host platform used: Windows 10 Pro (22H2)

Development tools used: Visual Studio Build Tools 2019 (v16.11.14)

Python SSL support implemented: statically linked OpenSSL.

Qt SSL support implemented: statically linked OpenSSL.