[Scons-users] compiler detection

[Kraus Philipp]

Am 29.10.2012 um 18:21 schrieb Evan Driscoll:


> On 10/29/2012 11:42 AM, Philipp Kraus wrote:

>> But I have got on MinGW a "shell" problem, because I use 2 env.Command

>> lines, and this commands are always run on cmd.exe, but MinGW uses by

>> default /bin/sh

>> I try to setup env["SHELL"] = "/bin/sh" and the PATH variable in my env

>> object, but by the env.Command line I get always that /bin/sh is not

>> found (and the command

>> creates an error).

> 

> Native Python/SCons knows nothing of MinGW paths; the /usr/bin/sh and

> /c/blah paths are translated to Windows paths by the MinGW libraries.

> 

> You need to set env["SHELL'] to whatever the physical location of sh.exe

> is, e.g. env["SHELL"] = "c:/programs/mingw/bin/sh.exe" to make something up.


The scons script is run from the MinGW shell (it is /bin/sh). I have tried to setup the Windows
path to the sh.exe and also the unix-styled path, in all cases the env.command stops with
the error that the shell is not found.