Install PyQt5 on Mavericks

Question

I'm trying to install PyQt5 on my Mavericks machine.

I have tried to do it like in this link here Installing PyQt5 with Python 3 On OS X

When I try to install qt5 with brew, there comes a warning:

qt5-5.2.1 already installed

But then when I type python configure.py

Terminal says:

querying qmake about your Qt installation... Error: PyQt5 requires Qt
v5.0 or later. You seem to be using v4.8.6. Use the
--qmake flag to specify the correct version of quake.

Can anyone please help me with this?

Answer 1

When you installed Qt via homebrew, you should have received a warning similar to:

This formula is keg-only, so it was not symlinked into /usr/local.

Qt 5 conflicts Qt 4 (which is currently much more widely used).

Generally there are no consequences of this for you. If you build your
own software and it requires this formula, you'll need to add to your
build variables:

    LDFLAGS:  -L/usr/local/opt/qt5/lib
    CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/qt5/include

While this information is very helpful, what you are specifically looking for will be in a directory under /usr/local/opt/qt5/$VERSION_OF_QT/bin/ as qmake is a binary utility.

For me, qmake is located at /usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.3.1/bin/qmake. Take this path and feed it to your --configure switch and you'll be all set!

e.g. python configure.py --qmake /usr/local/Cellar/qt5/5.3.1/bin/qmake