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Make Out with SCons

Posted by michael on from the scones-and-crumpets dept.

Nice2Cats writes "I stumbled across this and can't find a mention of it here yet: SCons, a stable alternative for the vilified make. Built-in support, they claim, for C, C++, and Java, built-in support for use with SCCS, CVS, and BitKeeper, supports .NET, and works with Linux, *BSD systems, Windows NT, and Mac OS X. I'd love something to would finally get rid of the awkward (no pun intended) make, and having a system based on Python would make it double good. Maybe one of the serious C/C++ programers here could give a verdict on if this is the dragon slayer we've been waiting for."

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  1. SCONS is awesome by alyosha1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After spending several hours trying to get make to do something complicated with shared libraries and multiple configurations, I started looking for a replacement, and stumbled across SCONS. It took me a few moments to download and install it, and a very short time to go from no knowledge of the system to having solved my problem.

    Since then I've shifted several of my projects to using SCONS as the build system. I'm sure it's theoretically possible to achieve what I was trying using make, but I wasted many hours wading through man pages and howtos without success, and SCONS did it with almost zero effort.

    I haven't tried using it on Windows yet, but my understanding is that you can use the same script under both platforms.

    So, just one data point, but my experience with it has been 100% positive.

    -alyosha