SCons User Guide 0.96
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Variant Builds

The BuildDir function now gives us everything we need to show how easy it is to create variant builds using SCons. Suppose, for example, that we want to build a program for both Windows and Linux platforms, but that we want to build it in a shared directory with separate side-by-side build directories for the Windows and Linux versions of the program. 

    platform = ARGUMENTS.get('OS', Platform())

    include = "#export/$PLATFORM/include"
    lib = "#export/$PLATFORM/lib"
    bin = "#export/$PLATFORM/bin"

    env = Environment(PLATFORM = platform,
                      BINDIR = bin,
                      INCDIR = include,
                      LIBDIR = lib,
                      CPPPATH = [include],
                      LIBPATH = [lib],
                      LIBS = 'world')

    Export('env')

    env.SConscript('src/SConscript', build_dir='build/$PLATFORM')

    #
    #BuildDir("#build/$PLATFORM", 'src')
    #SConscript("build/$PLATFORM/hello/SConscript")
    #SConscript("build/$PLATFORM/world/SConscript")

This SConstruct file, when run on a Linux system, yields: 

    % scons -Q OS=linux
    Install file: "build/linux/world/world.h" as "export/linux/include/world.h"
    cc -Iexport/linux/include -c -o build/linux/hello/hello.o build/linux/hello/hello.c
    cc -Iexport/linux/include -c -o build/linux/world/world.o build/linux/world/world.c
    ar r build/linux/world/libworld.a build/linux/world/world.o
    ranlib build/linux/world/libworld.a
    Install file: "build/linux/world/libworld.a" as "export/linux/lib/libworld.a"
    cc -o build/linux/hello/hello build/linux/hello/hello.o -Lexport/linux/lib -lworld
    Install file: "build/linux/hello/hello" as "export/linux/bin/hello"

The same SConstruct file on Windows would build: 

    C:\>scons -Q OS=windows
    Install file: "build/windows/world/world.h" as "export/windows/include/world.h"
    cl /nologo /Iexport\windows\include /c build\windows\hello\hello.c /Fobuild\windows\hello\hello.obj
    cl /nologo /Iexport\windows\include /c build\windows\world\world.c /Fobuild\windows\world\world.obj
    lib /nologo /OUT:build\windows\world\world.lib build\windows\world\world.obj
    Install file: "build/windows/world/world.lib" as "export/windows/lib/world.lib"
    link /nologo /OUT:build\windows\hello\hello.exe /LIBPATH:export\windows\lib world.lib build\windows\hello\hello.obj
    Install file: "build/windows/hello/hello.exe" as "export/windows/bin/hello.exe"
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