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• General Information
• What is SCons?
• Where do I get SCons?
• What’s the difference between the scons, scons-local, and scons-src packages?
• What version of Python do I need?
• Do I need to know how to program in Python to use SCons?
• Why is SCons written for Python version 3?
• Am I restricted to using Python 3 code in my SConscript files?
• Are there any SCons mailing lists or newsgroups? Are they archived anywhere?
• Is SCons released under an Open Source license?
• Can I help with SCons development?
• SCons Questions
• Why doesn’t SCons find my compiler/linker/etc.? I can execute it just fine from the command line.
• How do I get SCons to find my #include files?
• How do I install files? The Install() method doesn’t do anything. In general, how do I build anything outside my current directory?
• Why is my directory only updated the first time?
• I’m already using ldconfig, pkg-config, gtk-config, etc. Do I have to rewrite their logic to use SCons?
• Linking on Windows gives me an error: LINK: fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ‘TEMPFILE’. How do I fix this?
• How do I prevent commands from being executed in parallel?
• Compatibility with make
• Is SCons compatible with make?
• Is there a Makefile-to-SCons or SCons-to-Makefile converter?
• Does SCons support building in parallel, like make’s -j option?
• Does SCons support something like VPATH in make?
• SCons History and Background
• Who wrote SCons?
• Is SCons the same as Cons?
• So what can SCons do that Cons can’t?
• Should I use Cons or SCons for my project?
• Is SCons the same as the ScCons design from the Software Carpentry competition?
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