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diff --git a/sources/pyside2/doc/gettingstarted-windows.rst b/sources/pyside2/doc/gettingstarted-windows.rst index 8de20769e..069358e0f 100644 --- a/sources/pyside2/doc/gettingstarted-windows.rst +++ b/sources/pyside2/doc/gettingstarted-windows.rst @@ -7,18 +7,15 @@ selected when using the online installer. Requirements ------------ - * Qt package from `here`_ or a custom build of Qt (preferably Qt 5.12 - or greater) - * A Python interpreter (version Python 3.5+). Preferably get it - from the `official website`_. + * Qt package from `here`_ or a custom build of Qt 5.12+ (preferably Qt 5.15) + * A Python interpreter (version Python 3.5+). Preferably get it from the `official website`_. * `MSVC2017`_ (or MSVC2019) for Python 3 on Windows, * `CMake`_ version 3.1 or greater * `Git`_ version 2 or greater - * `libclang`_ prebuilt version from the - ``Qt Downloads`` page is recommended. - * `OpenSSL`_ (optional for SSL support, Qt must have been - configured using the same SSL library). - * ``virtualenv`` is strongly recommended, but optional. + * `libclang`_ prebuilt version from the ``Qt Downloads`` page is recommended. We recommend + libclang10 for PySide 5.15. + * `OpenSSL`_ (optional for SSL support, Qt must have been configured using the same SSL library). + * ``venv`` or ``virtualenv`` is strongly recommended, but optional. * ``sphinx`` package for the documentation (optional). .. note:: Python 2.7 interpreter is not supported. @@ -28,6 +25,9 @@ Requirements If you intend to use Python 2.7, build the interpreter yourself with MSVC 2015 or later, and build Qt for Python with it. +.. note:: Python 3.8.0 was missing some API required for PySide/Shiboken so it's not possible + to use it for a Windows build. + .. _here: https://qt.io/download .. _official website: https://www.python.org/downloads/ @@ -44,13 +44,12 @@ Building from source on Windows 10 Creating a virtual environment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -``virtualenv`` allows you to create a local, user-writeable copy of a python environment into +The ``venv`` module allows you to create a local, user-writeable copy of a python environment into which arbitrary modules can be installed and which can be removed after use:: - virtualenv testenv - call testenv\scripts\activate - pip install sphinx # optional: documentation - pip install numpy PyOpenGL # optional: for examples + python -m venv testenv + call testenv\Scripts\activate + pip install -r requirements.txt # General dependencies, documentation, and examples. will create and use a new virtual environment, which is indicated by the command prompt changing. @@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ Setting up CLANG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you don't have libclang already in your system, you can download from the Qt servers, -e.g. ``libclang-release_60-windows-vs2015_64-clazy.7z``. +e.g. ``libclang-release_100-based-windows-vs2019_64.7z``. Extract the files, and leave it on any desired path, e.g ``c:\``, and then set these two required environment variables:: @@ -73,9 +72,9 @@ Cloning the official repository can be done by:: git clone --recursive https://code.qt.io/pyside/pyside-setup -Checking out the version that we want to build, e.g. 5.14:: +Checking out the version that we want to build, e.g. 5.15:: - cd pyside-setup && git checkout 5.14 + cd pyside-setup && git checkout 5.15 .. note:: Keep in mind you need to use the same version as your Qt installation @@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ Building PySide2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Check your Qt installation path, to specifically use that version of qmake to build PySide2. -e.g. ``E:\Qt\5.12.0\msvc2015_64\bin\qmake.exe``. +e.g. ``E:\Qt\5.15.0\msvc2019_64\bin\qmake.exe``. Build can take a few minutes, so it is recommended to use more than one CPU core:: |