[QGIS-Developer] SIP is insane

[Even Rouault]

Le 09/06/2026 à 15:19, Stefanos Natsis a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
>
>     Am I the only QGIS dev highly frustrated by the bottleneck of
>     sip-build
>     when building QGIS? Can we do something (funding upstream?) to
>     improve that?
>
>
> I used to be quite frustrated when sip4 support was dropped, as 
> sip-build times were really terrible with sip 6 at the time.
> After David's fixes in Oct/Nov 2025 though, things are back to normal. 
> With sip-tools v6.15+ I don't think sip-build is a bottleneck any more 
> for me.

Thanks for the hint. That does improve things (sip-build time) indeed. 
For posterity, I managed to use it without altering too much my build 
env with:

python3 -m venv sip_venv
source sip_venv/bin/activate
pip install sip PyQt-builder
cmake -USIP_BUILD_EXECUTABLE ..


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