Kommentare zu: Installing Eric4 on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Von: WORKS13 • » Howto install Eric4 on Mac OS X with 64bit Python

WORKS13 • » Howto install Eric4 on Mac OS X with 64bit Python — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:42:32 +0000

[...] Python became the default on OS X, and the question arised, how to deal with it in regard to Eric4. My old HowTo was very well received, but it covers mostly 32bit installation and therefor caused some [...]

Von: Peter

Peter — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:22:04 +0000

I always get a failure on make for PyQT. SIP seems to install just fine but on PyQT a python configure.py checks fine, determines the install directory just fine but then gets an error on sip:

sip: Usage: sip then all the parameters printed out then next line
Error: Unable to create the C++ code.

and of course PyQT will not make install.

Von: industrie13

industrie13 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:31:15 +0000

Hi Ricardo, it says, that it couldn’t find PyQt4 – did you install it like in step 4 of the guide above?

Von: Riccardo

Riccardo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:25:02 +0000

Hi, thank you for this guide. Unfortunely I don’t know why it didn’t work for me. I downloaded Qt for 32 and 64 bit. But when I tried to install eric4 I found this error:

rrmacbpro:eric4-4.4.2 riccardorotondo$ sudo python install.py
Checking dependencies
Python Version: 2.6.4
Sorry, please install PyQt4.
Error: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so, 2): no suitable image found. Did find:
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Thanks to anyone can help me.
Bye

Von: Henrique

Henrique — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:32:51 +0000

Thank you for collecting all the installation steps here.

An easy hack to create a Mac OS X native application is to create an Automator app launching the Eric4 script. In Automator, choose the “Create new app” option and then select the “run Shell script” action in the “Utilities” section. Choose the “/bin/sh” shell and put as text of the script: “cd /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/eric4/ &&”, the content of the eric4 launching script (cat /usr/bin/local/eric4) and finally add “&”

The final result should be something like:

cd “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/eric4″ && exec “/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/pythonw” “/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py” “$@” &

If you then save the Automator app, you can change it the icon and launch the eric4 IDE as any other OS X app. Not quite elegant but it works.

Von: Christian

Christian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:43:38 +0000

Does building a 32bit PyQt4 imply the use of a 32 bit Python? I would rather use the stock Python which comes installed with SL. This whole 32/64 bit thing with SL is kind of a PITA

Von: industrie13

industrie13 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:01:48 +0000

I will give Platus a shot. Regarding the display problem, maybe its caused by the qt4-cocoa-package, which eric is said to have some serious issues with. On the mailing list ( http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/eric/2010-January/002271.html ) it was suggested to use qt-mac-opensource-4.6.x.dmg for now (which therefore requires to build PyQt4 in 32bit). I will try that too.

Von: Christian

Christian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:54:41 +0000

Have you tried creating an .app using Platypus? Might be worth a shot. Also, on my system (SL 10.6.2) I get a weird display problem: the editor shows “boxes” around words if one clicks on them. What happens, is that these boxes are somewhat off to the right, and if I click on those words, the whole line shifts to the right to fit into the boxes. Anyone else notice this?

Von: richb-hanover

richb-hanover — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:33:31 +0000

It’s worth noting that in January 2010, the current versions are:
Qt4 – 4.6.0
SIP – 4.9.3
PyQt – 4.6.2
QScintilla – 2.4
eric4 – 4.4.0

Von: industrie13

industrie13 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:51:13 +0000

thanks!
should now be right