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How to build PyQt5 for Maya 2024

Maya 2024 is shipped with Python 3.10 only on all platforms. Although pip is shipped with Maya 2024, we still can't use it to install PyQt5 on Mac or Linux. On windows, pip installed packages could work. However, it has its own Qt5 libraries installed and it may lead to problems. You may want to replace them with the ones shipped with Maya. I didn't encounter any problems during my testing with the original pip packages. If you find any... Read more →

Maya 2024 API Update guide

The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2024 with some extra info. For more details including commands and scripts changes, please checkout the documentation for more details. Building environments In Maya 2024, we made significent changes on the building environment. The minimum supported version of CMake has been updated to 3.22.1. Platform OS Building Environment Windows - Visual studio 2022, .NET 4.8.1 Linux RHEL 8.6+ DTS-11 + gcc 11.2.1 Mac - Xcode 13.4+, macOS... Read more →