Are there any libraries/frameworks for SCons?

Question

Each project using SCons seems to be reinventing the wheel. I would be glad to take someones directory layout, and/or solution for variant builds(debug/release), and/or testing framework, and/or best practices.

Even several not-too-simple examples would help.

Answer 1

You may be interested in Google's Software Construction Toolkit that was made open source in February 2009. It adds new features on top of SCons, such as improved Visual Studio project file generation, unit test functions, and distributed builds with distcc or incredibuild.

Answer 2

The SCons Recipes in the wiki is a good place to start. In addition take a look at other projects which use SCons, e.g. the Ardour build system. If that doesn't cut it, there are a few third party SCons extensions you may want to take a look at:

• Parts
• Aqualid

To the best of my knowledge, there are no SCons best practices which were agreed upon. The SCons community seems to favor adaptability over "canonicalization". It is not hard to design a decent SCons-based build system from scratch, though. (Once you have understood how VariantDir works, at least.)

Answer 3

If you are using Eclipse for C++ development you may want to check out this SCons builder plugin (http://nic-nac-project.org/~lothar/eclipse/update/SConsBuilderPlugin.html)