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+.. _building_options:
+
+PySide Setup Script command line options
+========================================
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+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 on
+    ``sys.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 and ``make`` 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 <http://qt-project.org/wiki/jom>`_ instead of nmake with msvc
+
+``--build-tests``
+    Enable building the tests