Installing PyQt4 for Maya 2012+ (osx)

Nov 10, 2011

This is a follow up post to my previous one on Installing PyQt4 for Maya 2011

Recently while putting together my next video tutorial for Python for Maya, I came to a section where I wanted to demo PyQt4 in Maya2012. But I was concerned that viewers would have to go through the complicated steps of building PyQt4. I noticed that other people have made available precompiled PyQt installers for windows (here) but I could not find any for OSX or linux. So I decided to put together a build.

I created a new project on github called MyQt4

https://github.com/justinfx/MyQt4

Its a Makefile for completely downloading and building PyQt4 for maya, and generating a .pkg installer. Hopefully someone can contribute improvements since I dont have a ton of experience writing makefiles, and also that someone might create a linux version.

Here is a link to the latest pkg build:

**Snow Leopard: **

Maya2011: MyQt4.7.4-maya2011-x64-osx-10.6.pkg
Maya2012: MyQt4.9.4-maya2012-x64-osx-10.6.pkg
Maya2013: MyQt4.9.4-maya2013-x64-osx-10.6.pkg

**Lion: **

Maya2012: MyQt4.8.6-maya2012-x64-osx-10.7.pkg (Thanks Chris!)
Maya2013: MyQt4.8.6-maya2013-x64-osx-10.7.pkg

Mountain Lion:

Maya2011: MyQt4.7.4-maya2011-x64-osx-20130114.pkg

Here are builds other people have made:

Win 32bit: http://blarg.robertkist.com/?p=51{.broken_link}
Win 64bit: http://nathanhorne.com/?p=322
Win 7 64bit Maya 2013: https://www.box.com/s/1db3b0c903059ac89fc4
Linux: http://www.kurianos.com/wordpress/?p=551

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Installing PyQt4 for Maya 2012+ (osx)