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| author | Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io> | 2017-11-13 10:14:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io> | 2017-11-15 15:47:12 +0000 |
| commit | 522182fc6ef0d06da1d21fd07ab4e440407cca8e (patch) | |
| tree | 365cc751966b35c13aa82eabce5c44767ea4d0fb /setup.py | |
| parent | e455d995be989cbdfef2bcd54fd7057a9b036b52 (diff) | |
Update description of standalone option in setup.py
Mention that it is usable on Linux and macOS, whereas on Windows it
is used implicitly.
Change-Id: I17f2086e7d4f9ac9ac084bddbcf73644af4bc0d4
Task-number: PYSIDE-558
Reviewed-by: Christian Tismer <tismer@stackless.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'setup.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | setup.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ or python setup.py install --qmake=</path/to/qt/bin/qmake> [--cmake=</path/to/cmake>] [--openssl=</path/to/openssl/bin>] to build and install into your current Python installation. -On Linux you can use option --standalone, to embed Qt libraries to PySide2 distribution +On Linux and macOS you can use option --standalone, to embed Qt libraries into the PySide2 package. +The option does not affect Windows, because it is used implicitly, i.e. all relevant DLLs have to +be copied into the PySide2 package anyway, because there is no proper rpath support on the platform. You can use option --rpath="your_value" to specify what rpath values should be embedded into the PySide2 modules and shared libraries. This overrides the automatically generated values when the |