[Scons-users] Problem with DLL dependencies on Windows

[Dmitry Mikhin]

Hi Dan and everyone,

Yes, this sounds similar indeed. Manual tracking of dependencies
(along the lines given in your email) would work, although IMO this
would be a kludge. It seems that SCons shall handle this automatically
(after all, even if I never mentioned the extension ".dll" in my
SConscripts, SCons somehow knows about it behind the scenes). SCons
knows about the dependency on ".a" files, can find the ".a" files in
the installed directory, and installs only the correct sub-set for
partial builds. Yet it skips DLLs, even if the obtained ".exe" clearly
depends on them.

Seems like an extension is needed (do not want to call it "bug").
Dmitry

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Dan Pidcock <dan.pidcock at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 24 May 2013 09:41, Dmitry Mikhin <dmitry.mikhin at gmail.com> wrote:

>>

>> Yes, they do:

>> My targets: ['utils.dll', 'libutils.a']

>>

>> Any other ideas?

>> Dmitry

>

>

> I saw what may be a similar issue when using windows shared libraries. We

> have set scons up with variant directories (which are named for each library

> to prevent name clashes) which is where it creates the .dlls and .lib files.

> An Install builder is used to copy the .dll and .lib files over to a shared

> binary directory (one for each variant).

>

> When used with just scons on the command line this was OK, but when I build

> particular targets it didn't always update so I have a dictionary of the

> installed libraries which is keyed on each project, and then those are

> manually added to the dependency graph with Depends. Not sure if this is

> exactly the same scenario you have but maybe this will give you some ideas?

>

> We use something like:

> projectTarget = projectEnv.SharedLibrary(libraryName, Glob('*.cpp'))

> installedProject = projectEnv.Install(paths.BinPath(), projectTarget)

> installedLibraries[libraryName] = installedProject

>

> ... later ...

> (given a list requiredLibraries of libraries that a program depends on)

>

> for lib in requiredLibraries:

>     if lib in installedLibraries:

>         Depends(projectTarget, installedLibraries[lib])

>

> Dan

>

>

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