You've already seen how SCons prints some messages about what it's doing, surrounding the actual commands used to build the software:
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
embedManifestExeCheck(target, source, env)
scons: done building targets.
These messages emphasize the
order in which SCons does its work:
all of the configuration files
(generically referred to as SConscript
files)
are read and executed first,
and only then are the target files built.
Among other benefits, these messages help to distinguish between
errors that occur while the configuration files are read,
and errors that occur while targets are being built.
One drawback, of course, is that these messages clutter the output.
Fortunately, they're easily disabled by using
the -Q
option when invoking SCons:
C:\>scons -Q
cl /Fohello.obj /c hello.c /nologo
link /nologo /OUT:hello.exe hello.obj
embedManifestExeCheck(target, source, env)
So this User's Guide can focus
on what SCons is actually doing,
the -Q
option will be used
to remove these messages from the
output of all the remaining examples in this Guide.