SCons

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SCons
Original author(s) Steven Knight
Initial releaseDecember 13, 2001;23 years ago (2001-12-13) [1]
Stable release
4.9.1 [2] / March 27, 2025;4 months ago (2025-03-27)
Repository github.com/SCons/scons
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Software development tools
License MIT License
Website scons.org

SCons is a software development tool that analyzes source code dependencies and operating system adaptation requirements from a software project description and generates final binary executables for installation on the target operating system platform. Its function is similar to the more popular GNU build system.

Contents

The tool generates Python scripts for project configuration and build logic.

History

The Cons software construction utility, written in the Perl, was created by Bob Sidebotham in 1999. [3] It served as a base for the ScCons build tool, a design which won the Software Carpentry project SC Build competition in August 2000. [4] ScCons was the foundation for SCons.

SCons inspired the creation of Waf, formerly known as SCons/BKsys, which emerged in the KDE community. For some time, there were plans to use it as the build tool for KDE 4 and beyond, but that effort was abandoned in favor of CMake. [5]

Notable projects that use SCons (or used it at one time) include: The Battle for Wesnoth, [6] Battlefield 1942,[ citation needed ] Doom 3, [7] gem5, [8] gpsd, [9] GtkRadiant, [10] Madagascar, [11] Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, [12] OpenNebula, [13] VMware,[ citation needed ], Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, [14] XORP and MCA2, [15] openpilot [16] and Godot. [17]

.csig is the SCons Content Signature file format.

Features

Major features include:

Examples

The following is an SConstruct file that builds a hello world C program using the default platform compiler:

Program("hello-world.c")

The following is a SConstruct file for a project that includes two source files and specifies build tool options:

env=Environment()env.Append(CPPFLAGS=["-Wall","-g"])env.Program("hello",["hello.c","main.c"])

See also

References

  1. ↑ Knight, Steven (February 2002). "SCons Design and Implementation". Archived from the original on March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Archives - SCons".
  3. ↑ Cons (web site), DSMit, archived from the original on 2000-08-15.
  4. ↑ Samuel, Alex (2000-08-04). "Software Carpentry Design Competition Second Round Results Config, Build, and Track categories" . Retrieved 2012-10-29.
  5. ↑ Neundorf, Alexander (21 June 2006). "Why the KDE project switched to CMake – and how (continued)". LWN. Retrieved 21 July 2009.
  6. ↑ "CompilingWesnoth". Wiki. Wesnoth. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
  7. ↑ "README.txt". id Software. Retrieved 2015-05-13.
  8. ↑ Gem5 .
  9. ↑ "SCons is full of win today". ESR. iBiblio. 2011-04-05. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
  10. ↑ "Developer documentation for GtkRadiant 1.6.0 (Zeroradiant)" (Trac). QE radiant. 2008-06-30. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  11. ↑ "Installation". Wiki. Ahay. 2011-02-26. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
  12. ↑ "INSTALL". NSIS (source code). Source forge. 2011-05-28. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 2011-04-11.
  13. ↑ "/SConstruct - OpenNebula - OpenNebula Development pages". OpenNebula Project. Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  14. ↑ "README.txt". id Software. Retrieved 2017-04-25.
  15. ↑ "Modular Controller Architecture". Research Center for Information Technology (FZI), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Archived from the original on 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  16. ↑ "openpilot Github repository". comma.ai/. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  17. ↑ "Introduction to the buildsystem — Godot Engine latest documentation". docs.godotengine.org. Retrieved 2019-08-19.


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