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Installing the Eric IDE for Python on OS X Lion
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| You'll find that getting QT to play nicely on Lion is less than intuitive and painful much less getting all of the Eric IDE pre-requisites working, as well. In a effort to ease your pains, here's the steps that I went through: | |
| btw, these instructions are assuming you have an Intel Mac (I doubt Lion supports PowerPC, though). | |
| Xcode | |
| - What developer hasn't installed Xcode on his Mac, yet?!? | |
| - Xcode has the build tools that everything needs so you'll need this. | |
| Python | |
| - I think the OS X version of Python will work but I used python2.7 from Homebrew | |
| - You can figure this part out for yourself <= I'm too lazy! | |
| Qt 4.8.1 <= as of this writing | |
| - Download the SDK from here: http://qt-project.org/downloads | |
| - I used the Online SDK installer but the Offline installer will probably work too. | |
| - Just install the pkg like you normally would but be patient since this WILL take a while. | |
| SIP | |
| - Don't ask me what this is, just install it because you need it. | |
| - Download it from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk | |
| - tar -xvzf sip-<some version number>.tar.gz | |
| - cd sip-<some version number> | |
| - export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7 | |
| - python configure.py -n --arch=x86_64 -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.7.sdk | |
| - make | |
| - sudo make install | |
| QScintilla - Qt4 | |
| - Don't ask me what this is, just install it because you need it. | |
| - Download it from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk | |
| - tar -xvzf QScintilla-<some version number>.tar.gz | |
| - cd QScintilla-<some version number> | |
| - cd Qt4 | |
| - /Users/<username>/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/bin/qmake qscintilla.pro -spec /Users/<username>/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/mkspecs/macx-g++ | |
| - make | |
| - sudo make install | |
| PyQt | |
| - This is used to bind python to the Qt framework | |
| - Download it from here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk | |
| - tar -xvzf PyQt-mac-<some version number>.tar.gz | |
| - cd PyQt-mac-<some version number> | |
| - export QTDIR=/Users/<username>/QtSDK | |
| - python configure.py -q /Users/<username>/QtSDK/Desktop/Qt/4.8.1/gcc/bin/qmake -a --use-arch=x86_64 | |
| - accept the license | |
| - make | |
| - sudo make install | |
| QScintilla - python | |
| - cd QScintilla-<some version number> | |
| - cd Python | |
| - python configure.py | |
| - make | |
| - sudo make install | |
| Eric (finally) | |
| - Download eric4 here: http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/eric-download.html | |
| - eric5 is for python3.x and nobody really uses python3, right? | |
| - tar -xvzf eric4-<some version number>.tar.gz | |
| - cd eric4-<some version number> | |
| - sudo python install.py | |
| - and finally: | |
| - eric4 <= hooray! |
I got the same error.
After : brew install QScintilla2
python install.py shows errors :
Checking dependencies
Python Version: 2.7.9
Found PyQt5
Sorry, please install QScintilla2 and
its PyQt5/PyQt4 wrapper.
Error: cannot import name Qsci
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hello,
I am following your instructions to install eric4 on my mac os x 10.7.
Everything is fine exept the last step.When I input python install.py in eric4-4.5.6 folder,I always got the following error:
Checking dependencies
Python Version: 2.7.3
Found PyQt4
Found QtHelp
Sorry, please install QScintilla2 and
it's PyQt4 wrapper.
Error: cannot import name Qsci
There is no error during the installation of QScintilla2, so I don't konw what the problem is.
Thank you for your help.