Nov 16, 2025 · SCons, to gain the advantages of having an isolated environment. It also gets around the problem of not having administrative privileges on a particular system to install a distribution

15.1. Specifying a Variant Directory Tree as Part of an SConscript Call 15.2. Why SCons Duplicates Source Files in a Variant Directory Tree 15.3. Telling SCons to Not Duplicate Source Files in the …

The scons package is the basic one for installing SCons on your system and using it or experimenting with it. You don't need any other package if you just want to try out SCons.

DESCRIPTION SCons is an extensible open source build system that orchestrates the construction of software (and other tangible products such as documentation files) by determining which component …

Check your package installation system to see if there is an up-to-date SCons package available. Many people prefer to install distribution-native packages if available, as they provide a central point for …

This page contains links to general SCons documentation, and to documentation (man page and User's Guide) for the current stable release of SCons: 4.10.1. Man pages and User's Guides for other …

In this chapter, you will see several examples of very simple build configurations using SCons, which will demonstrate how easy it is to use SCons to build programs from several different programming …

As such it is not exactly a tutorial (as usually those build a single example topic from start to finish), but if you are just starting with SCons it is recommended you step through the first 10 chapters in …

All modules or packages used by SCons must either be part of the standard library in the lowest supported Python release, or be "vendored" into the SCons distribution.

SCons 4.8.0 is available SCons release 4.8.0 now available from the download page at SourceForge. This release should be used instead of 4.6.0. This release fixes one issue. This release ONLY …