Building Object Files

The Program builder method is only one of many builder methods that SCons provides to build different types of files. Another is the Object builder method, which tells SCons to build an object file from the specified source file:

      Object('hello.c')
   

Now when you run the scons command to build the program, it will build just the hello.o object file on a POSIX system:

      % scons
      scons: Reading SConscript files ...
      scons: done reading SConscript files.
      scons: Building targets ...
      cc -c -o hello.o hello.c
      scons: done building targets.
   

And just the hello.obj object file on a Windows system (with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler):

      C:\>scons
      scons: Reading SConscript files ...
      scons: done reading SConscript files.
      scons: Building targets ...
      cl /nologo /c hello.c /Fohello.obj
      scons: done building targets.