I'm trying to install PySide v0.3.1 in Mac OS X, for Qt development in python.

As a pre-requisite, I have installed CMake and the Qt SDK.

I have gone through the documentation and come up with the following installation script:

export PYSIDE_BASE_DIR="<my_dir>"

export APIEXTRACTOR_DIR="$PYSIDE_BASE_DIR/apiextractor-0.5.1"
export GENERATORRUNNER_DIR="$PYSIDE_BASE_DIR/generatorrunner-0.4.2"
export SHIBOKEN_DIR="$PYSIDE_BASE_DIR/shiboken-0.3.1"
export PYSIDE_DIR="$PYSIDE_BASE_DIR/pyside-qt4.6+0.3.1"
export PYSIDE_TOOLS_DIR="$PYSIDE_BASE_DIR/pyside-tools-0.1.3"

pushd .

cd $APIEXTRACTOR_DIR
cmake . 

cd $GENERATORRUNNER_DIR
cmake -DApiExtractor_DIR=$APIEXTRACTOR_DIR .

cd $SHIBOKEN_DIR
cmake -DApiExtractor_DIR=$APIEXTRACTOR_DIR -DGeneratorRunner_DIR=$GENERATORRUNNER_DIR .

cd $PYSIDE_DIR
cmake -DShiboken_DIR=$SHIBOKEN_DIR/libshiboken -DGENERATOR=$GENERATORRUNNER_DIR .

cd $PYSIDE_TOOLS_DIR
cmake .

popd

Now, I don't know if this installation script is ok, but apparently everything works fine. Each component (apiextractor, generatorrunner, shiboken, pyside-qt and pyside-tools) gets compiled into its own directory.

The problem is that I don't quite understand how PySide gets into the system's python environment. In fact, when I start a python shell, I cannot import PySide:

>>> import PySide
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named PySide

Note: I am aware of the Installing PySide - OSX question, but that question is not relevant anymore, because it is about a specific a dependency on the Boost libraries, but with version 0.3.0 PySide moved from a Boost based source code to a CPython one.