[PySide] Packaging for guix

[John Soo]

Hi Cristián and Ricardo,

A quick update: Shiboken2 builds! Thanks for your guidance!  I may have
more questions when building freecad itself, but this was very helpful.
Thanks again!

- John

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 1:06 PM John Soo <jsoo1 at asu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Cristián,
>
> Thank you! I have been following the cmake path and it seems to be working
> better than before. If I find more issues, I will ask.  Thanks again!
>
> - John
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 9:47 AM Cristián Maureira-Fredes <
> Cristian.Maureira-Fredes at qt.io> wrote:
>
>> Hello John,
>>
>> I'm not familiar with guix, but if the CMake approach doesn't work [1]
>> and the setuptools also doesn't work [2],
>> maybe you can share some of the logs related the build errors
>> so we can see how what's precisely the issue.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> [1]
>> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/shiboken2
>> [2] https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_Python/GettingStarted/X11
>> ________________________________________
>> From: PySide <pyside-bounces at qt-project.org> on behalf of John Soo <
>> jsoo1 at asu.edu>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 06:21
>> To: pyside at qt-project.org
>> Cc: guix-devel at gnu.org
>> Subject: [PySide] Packaging for guix
>>
>> Hello pyside maintainers,
>>
>> Hope you are all well.  I am looking to package freecad for the guix
>> package manager for which pyside is a dependency. I’m having some trouble
>> packaging pyside as the build and environment for guix (like nix) are quite
>> different from a Debian style system. There a quite a few differences:
>>
>>  -  the prefix for installation directories is in a unique directory
>> specific to the package
>>  - cmake and python require many particular environment variables and
>> flags
>> - library and linking paths are very different and often source shebangs
>> and linking paths need to be patched to point to the correct paths
>>  - the build process happens in an isolated build environment apart from
>> any system directories
>>  - probably more that I haven’t come across yet
>>
>> I’ve tried using the provided python build process but I get several
>> build errors, let alone runtime issues. Would anyone be able to point me in
>> a direction to patch pyside for such a packaging system? Currently I’m
>> stuck building Shiboken. I’d particularly like guidance on how to setup
>> cmake to build it correctly (mostly the ability to provide our particular
>> flags and variables). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> John
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