I am learning PyQt4 by reading Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt and am at chapter 7 which covers QT Designer; however QT Designer doesn't appear to be installed with my MacPort's (py34-pyqt4) or the example code from the book's website www.qtrac.eu. So I'm downloading QT Designer from www.qt.io.
The straightforward installation (python configure-ng.py, make, make install) hangs on the configure step complaining
Error: Make sure you have a working sip on your PATH or use the --sip argument
to explicitly specify a working sip.
I am hoping MacPorts has sip, and luckily port search sip finds py34-sip. However after installing, getting the same error, and finding port installed lists py34-sip as installed; I check my default python.
$ which python
/opt/local/bin/python
$ python --version
Python 3.4.3
$ port contents py34-sip
...
/opt/local/bin/sip-3.4
...
Good, we are in the MacPorts-python34 universe, but why isn't python finding py34-sip?
While Macport should have been able to use its own tools, it needed some help. Reading the error message and consulting
python configure-ng.py --help
gave me the solution
python configure-ng.py --sip /opt/local/bin/sip-3.4
which lead to a successful compilation.