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I'm having difficulty building QGIS plugins using the new Mac OS Sierra. I can compile the resources using

pyrcc5 resources.py resources.qrc

and the plugin displays in QGIS, but the message 'This plugin is broken. No module name PyQt5'

I have PyQt5 installed on my computer, but it seems that it may not be in Qgis 2.16?

I'm also not certain that PyQt4 works in Sierra. I have some experience with python and building plugins, but am pretty new to command line.

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  • QGIS 2.16 requires Qt4. It will not work with Qt5. Only QGIS 3 will support Qt5.
    – underdark
    Commented Nov 8, 2016 at 20:02

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It is actually possible to do this using the QGIS Plugin Builder, but you have to manually change the created resources.py file from PyQt5 to PyQt4 before you use the make command

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I finally got PyQt4 running on Sierra. There is a bug in glib that makes it really difficult (PyQt4 assumes GNU iconv, GLIB insists on linking in the native version. I had to hand edit the Makefile in the glib to link in the correct version, and I had to munge configure to make sure it is the correct version.

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