PySide 1.1.2

Installing prerequisities

Install latest distribute distribution: download distribute_setup.py and run it using the python interpreter.

Installing PySide on a Windows System

There are two options to install PySide on Windows:

1. Download and install the packages from the releases page.

2. Use setuptools:

   c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install PySide
   c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe c:\Python27\Scripts\pyside_postinstall.py -install

   Note that the post-install procedure is not needed when installing via installer. The installer calls the pyside_postinstall.py script automatically.

Installing PySide on a UNIX System

There are no prebuild setuptools distributions available for UNIX System. To build and install setuptools compatible distributions for UNIX System, please read the instructions in section Building PySide on a UNIX System.

Using pip vs easy_install

Pip can install only from source (it does not support binary distributions) and allways rebuilds the distribution before the distribution is installed to system. For that reason the recommended tool to install the PySide is easy_install.

Installing prerequisities

1. Install Python.

2. Install Qt 4.8 libraries for Windows (VS 2008).

3. Install Cmake.

4. Install Visual Studio Express 2008 when building against Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.2. Install Visual Studio Express 2010 when building against Python 3.3.

5. Install Git.

6. (Optional) Install OpenSSL.

7. Install latest distribute distribution into the Python you installed in the first step: download distribute_setup.py and run it using the python interpreter of your Python 2.7 installation using a command prompt:

   c:\> c:\Python27\python distribute_setup.py

Building PySide distribution

1. Clone PySide setup scripts from git repository:

   c:\> git clone https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git pyside-setup

2. Switch to the pyside-setup directory:

   c:\> cd pyside-setup

3. Build PySide windows installer:

   c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst --qmake=c:\Qt\4.8.4\bin\qmake.exe --openssl=c:\OpenSSL32bit\bin

4. Optionally you can specify the msvc compiler version:

   c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py bdist_wininst --msvc-version=10.0 --qmake=c:\Qt\4.8.4\bin\qmake.exe --openssl=c:\OpenSSL32bit\bin

5. After the successful build, install the distribution with easy_install and run the post-install script:

   c:\> c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install dist\PySide-1.1.2.win32-py2.7.exe
   c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe c:\Python27\Scripts\pyside_postinstall.py -install
   
   # After successfull install, the post-install script should print the following information to the console:
   
   c:\> The PySide extensions were successfully installed.

Installing prerequisities

1. Install Python 2.7 header files and a static library:

   $ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev

2. Install Qt 4.8 libraries:

   $ sudo apt-get install qt-sdk

3. Install cmake:

   $ sudo apt-get install cmake

4. Install git:

   $ sudo apt-get install git

5. Install latest distribute distribution into the Python you installed in the first step: download distribute_setup.py and run it using the python interpreter of your Python 2.7 installation using a command prompt:

   $ sudo python2.7 distribute_setup.py

Building PySide distribution

1. Clone PySide setup scripts from git repository:

   $ git clone https://github.com/PySide/pyside-setup.git pyside-setup

2. Switch to the pyside-setup directory:

   $ cd pyside-setup

3. Build PySide distribution:

   $ python2.7 setup.py bdist_egg

4. Optionally you can build standalone version of distribution with embedded Qt libs:

   $ python2.7 setup.py bdist_egg --standalone

5. After the successful build, install the distribution with easy_install and run the post-install script:

   $ sudo easy_install-2.7 dist/PySide-1.1.2.egg
   $ sudo python2.7 pyside_postinstall.py -install
   
   # After successfull install, the post-install script should print the following information to the console:
   
   $ PySide package successfully installed in...

Usage on Windows System

c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py [distribution_type] [options]

Usage on UNIX System

python2.7 setup.py [distribution_type] [options]

Distribution types

bdist_wininst

Create standalone windows installer with embedded Qt libs and development tools. This distribution type can be installed with easy_install.

bdist_egg

Create egg binary distribution. This distribution type can be installed with easy_install.

install

Install package to site packages folder.

develop

Install package in development mode, such that it’s available on sys.path, yet can still be edited directly from its source folder.

sdist

Create full source distribution with included sources of PySide Setup Scripts, PySide, Shiboken, PySide Tools and PySide Examples. Can be used to build binary distribution in offline mode.

Options

--qmake

Specify the path to qmake. Useful when the qmake is not in path or more than one Qt versions are installed.

--openssl

Specify the path to OpenSSL libs.

--only-package

Skip rebuilding everything and create distribution from prebuilt binaries. Before using this option first time, the full distribution build is required.

--cmake

Specify the path to cmake. Useful when the cmake is not in path.

--msvc-version

Specify the Visual C++ compiler version. Supported values are 9.0 (for VS 2008), 10.0 (for VS 2010), 11.0 (for VS 2012).

--standalone

When enabled, all required Qt libs will be included in PySide distribution. This option is allways enabled on Windows System. On Linux it’s disabled by default.

--version

Specify what version of PySide distribution to build. This option is available only when the setup scripts are cloned from git repository.

--list-versions

List available versions of PySide distributions.

--ignore-git

Don’t pull sources from git repository.

--make-spec

Specify the cmake makefile generator type. Available values are msvc on Windows System and make on UNIX System.

1.1.2 (2012-08-28)

Bug fixes

• During signal emission don’t get return type after callback

• Invalidate QStandardModel::invisibleRootItem in clear() method

• QAbstractItemModel has wrong ownership policy for selectionModel()

• Improved QVector to python conversion

• Disable docstring generation if tools aren’t found.

• Fixed some issues compiling PySide using VC++

• Install the shiboken module to site-packages

• Fix compilation when there is no libxslt installed on the system.

• Set a default hash function for all ObjectTypes.

• Fix segfault calling shiboken.dump

1.1.1 (2012-04-19)

1.1.0 (2012-01-02)

1.0.9 (2011-11-29)

Bug fixes

• 1058 Strange code in PySide/QtUiTools/glue/plugins.h

• 1057 valgrind detected “Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value”

• 1052 PySideConfig.cmake contains an infinite loop due to missing default for SHIBOKEN_PYTHON_SUFFIX

• 1048 QGridLayout.itemAtPosition() crashes when it should return None

• 1037 shiboken fails to build against python 3.2 (both normal and -dbg) on i386 (and others)

• 1036 Qt.KeyboardModifiers always evaluates to zero

• 1033 QDialog.DialogCode instances and return value from QDialog.exec_ hash to different values

• 1031 QState.parentState() or QState.machine() causes python crash at exit

• 1029 qmlRegisterType Fails to Increase the Ref Count

• 1028 QWidget winId missing

• 1016 Calling of Q_INVOKABLE method returning not QVariant is impossible…

• 1013 connect to QSqlTableModel.primeInsert() causes crash

• 1012 FTBFS with hardening flags enabled

• 1011 PySide Cygwin patch

• 1010 Shiboken Cygwin patch

• 1009 GeneratorRunner Cygwin patch

• 1008 ApiExtractor Cygwin patch

• 891 ApiExtractor doesn’t support doxygen as backend to doc generation.

1.0.8 (2011-10-21)

1.0.7 (2011-09-21)

Bug fixes

• 996 Missing dependencies for QtWebKit in buildscripts for Fedora

• 986 Documentation links

• 985 Provide versioned pyside-docs zip file to help packagers

• 981 QSettings docs should empathize the behavior changes of value() on different platforms

• 902 Expose Shiboken functionality through a Python module

• 997 QDeclarativePropertyMap doesn’t work.

• 994 QIODevice.readData must use qmemcpy instead of qstrncpy

• 989 Pickling QColor fails

• 987 Disconnecting a signal that has not been connected

• 973 shouldInterruptJavaScript slot override is never called

• 966 QX11Info.display() missing

• 959 can’t pass QVariant to the QtWebkit bridge

• 1006 Segfault in QLabel init

• 1002 Segmentation fault on PySide/Spyder exit

• 998 Segfault with Spyder after switching to another app

• 995 QDeclarativeView.itemAt returns faulty reference. (leading to SEGFAULT)

• 990 Segfault when trying to disconnect a signal that is not connected

• 975 Possible memory leak

• 991 The __repr__ of various types is broken

• 988 The type supplied with currentChanged signal in QTabWidget has changed in 1.0.6

1.0.6 (2011-08-22)

1.0.5 (2011-07-22)