PySide Setup Script command line options¶
Usage on a Windows System¶
c:\> c:\Python27\python.exe setup.py [distribution_type] [options]
Usage on a Linux/Mac OS X System¶
python2.7 setup.py [distribution_type] [options]
Distribution types¶
bdist_wheel
Create a wheel binary distribution. This distribution type can be installed with
pip
.bdist_egg
Create an egg binary distribution. This distribution type can be installed with
easy_install
.bdist_wininst
Create a standalone windows installer with embedded Qt libs and development tools. 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 onsys.path
, yet can still be edited directly from its source folder.sdist
Create a 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.
--standalone
When enabled, all required Qt libs will be included in PySide distribution. This option is allways enabled on Windows. On Linux it’s disabled by default.
Note
This option does not work on Mac OS X, yet.
--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 andmake
on Linux/Mac OS X.--no-examples
Don’t include PySide examples in PySide distribution
--jobs
Specify the number of parallel build jobs
--jom
Use jom instead of nmake with msvc
--build-tests
Enable building the tests