[PySide] python setup.py build fails with error: ‘class Shiboken::GilState’ has no member named ‘abandon’

[Filippo Rusconi]

Greetings, Fellow Developers,

thank you so much for your answers. 

I would like to build pyside2 by myself; I did know indeed that it was possible
to start using Pyside2 using the binaries. But I would like to follow the
instructions for getting to the Shiboken2 world of Python bindings...

On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:42:59PM +0200, Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On 9/8/20 3:51 PM, Filippo Rusconi via PySide wrote:
>>Greetings, Fellow Developers,
>>
>>new to this list, and new to the PySide2 world, I hope I am not erring by
>>sending this mail.
>>
>>I am willing to explore the Qt for Python universe, and for that I 
>>am following
>>the instructions located at
>>https://doc.qt.io/qtforpython/gettingstarted-linux.html
>>
>>I could perform all the steps up to the build of PySide2, with the 
>>following
>>command line:
>>
>>python setup.py build --qmake=/usr/lib/qt5/bin/qmake --build-tests 
>>--ignore-git
>>
>>The build configures fine and then the build stops with the 
>>following error:
>>[snip]
>
>Could you please share the whole output log?
>it would be really nice if you could share a pastebin link
>or a similar service, since usually you can see a summary of the 
>configuration before the building starts at the beginning.
>

Sure, this is what I got:

https://paste.debian.net/1163090/

I hope you'll be able to get to this output.

>>I do not yet know what GIL is. All I can say is that I had done:
>
>It's the Global Interpreter Lock from Python,
>in simple words, what controls how python code executes,
>https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-global-interpreter-lock
>
>Since PySide uses a C++-based library underneath,
>we need to control the interaction with that lock,
>acquiring it, and locking it, that's why there is some interaction
>withing the binding generator tool, Shiboken.

Thank you for the explanation. Yes, I had read some things about it. 

Most sincerely,

Filippo

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