[Scons-users] SCons Program is not aware of .manifest or .pdb

[Bill Deegan]

Jason,

Pull requests for docs are welcome as well as for code!

-Bill


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jason Swager <jswager at alohaoi.com> wrote:


> Sounds like the SCons 2.3.1 documentation needs to be updated in regards

> to SideEffect().  That's where the PDB example is used and where the

> non-cleaning nature of SideEffect() is explained and the Clean() method

> recommended.  Good to hear that SCons is getting better; now if the docs

> could just catch up. :)

> Jason

>

>

> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

>

>>  Hi Shane,

>>

>>

>> On 21.03.2014 13:50, Shane Gannon (gannons) wrote:

>>

>>  Hi all

>>

>>

>>

>> When compiling on Windows the SCons Program() is unaware that a .pdb and

>> .manifest may be generated. i.e. They are not listed as targets. Hence the

>> cache and clean do not work as desired.

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> when using the "PDB" variable as described in the Wiki link below, the

>> *.pdb file should get added to the list of targets for the Program(). If

>> this doesn't work on your side, please provide a little more information

>> about how you setup the Environment and call the Program builder. Ideally,

>> show us a simple SConstruct demonstrating the problem.

>>

>> I looked up the sources (v2.3.1), and the PDB target is not created via

>> SideEffect()...so it should behave like a normal target.

>> The same holds for the WINDOWS_EMBED_MANIFEST variable, that should

>> generate the .manifest files for you (at least for MSVC version >= 8.0).

>>

>> Finally, please not that (opposed to what Jason said in his answer)

>> SideEffect files get removed on a clean build automatically. There should

>> be no need to "wrap" SideEffects into another Clean.

>>

>> Best regards,

>>

>> Dirk

>>

>>

>>  This must be a common requirement. How do people usually address it?

>> There is an article on embedding manifests into the executable.

>>

>>

>>

>> http://www.scons.org/wiki/EmbedManifestIntoTarget

>>

>>

>>

>> This works and seems like a general good idea. But are there any

>> alternatives that also take into account .pdb files?

>>

>>

>>

>> Is there any reason for SCons excluding these items from the target?

>>

>>

>>

>> Regards

>>

>> Shane

>>

>>

>>

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