When using SCons, it is unnecessary to add special commands or target names to clean up after a build. Instead, you simply use the -c or --clean option when you invoke SCons, and SCons removes the appropriate built files. So if we build our example above and then invoke scons -c afterwards, the output on POSIX looks like:
% scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cc -o hello.o -c hello.c cc -o hello hello.o scons: done building targets. % scons -c scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Cleaning targets ... Removed hello.o Removed hello scons: done cleaning targets.
And the output on Windows looks like:
C:\>scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cl /Fohello.obj /c hello.c /nologo link /nologo /OUT:hello.exe hello.obj scons: done building targets. C:\>scons -c scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Cleaning targets ... Removed hello.obj Removed hello.exe scons: done cleaning targets.
Notice that SCons changes its output to tell you that it is Cleaning targets ... and done cleaning targets.