scons-setup.md

SCons Setup

SCons 2.3.x setup notes for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion).

Note that some test-related commands in this build file run on virtual machines, and assume that Vagrant has been installed on this machine. (See the included setup instructions for Vagrant.)

Installation

• Download the scons gzip tar file (or zip file) for the 2.3.x version from https://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/files/scons/2.3.6/scons-2.3.6.tar.gz/download
• Extract it to any location.
• Go to the scons-2.3.x directory in the extracted location, and run python setup.py install to install scons in the system directories.
• You can check the version of your scons installation by running scons -v

Using SCons

• Run scons -h|--help to see help information for the current project.
• Run scons to execute the default target for the current project.
• If you are interested, run scons -H to see help on options supported by scons.