resource compiler pyrcc5 was not found in your path

[tveinot]

How can I fix this so the plugin will do this step for me? I can run the pyrcc5 from the OSGeo Shell if I run py3_env and qt5_env first.

[nilsnolde]

I tried to outline the (fairly confusing) part of pyrcc5 and the resources.qrc file here:
https://github.com/gis-ops/tutorials/blob/master/qgis/QGIS_QtDesigner.md#qt-resourcesqrc

Hope it helps you.

[tveinot]

You're right, that is confusing lol...
I kind of understand what they are saying but it seems the issue is related to the plugin scripts not running in the right environment or a path is wrong somewhere. I can run it manually; it just doesn't work automatically from within the plugin.

[palikao]

I had the same problem, starting from Plugin Builder 3 and QGIS-LTR on MacOS.

Waiting for an official QGIS solution, I've found a simpler trick to solve the problem of pyrcc5, without installing anything more.

1. Edit the plugin_builder.py inside plugin folder, replacing 'pyrcc5' inside cmd instruction with its complete path (ie. '/Applications/QGIS-LTR.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pyrcc5'
2. Save
3. Edit pyrcc5 file (located in /Applications/QGIS-LTR.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/pyrcc5), replacing 'dirname $0/python3.9' with dirname $0/python3.9 (removing quotes)
4. Save
5. Reload Plugin Builder inside QGIS-LTR or open QGIS-LTR again

Everything that deals with 'QGIS-LTR' is ok also for 'QGIS', paths too

[palikao]

Reported as general issue here:
qgis/QGIS#54199