[Scons-users] Adding new platforms

[Andrew C. Morrow]

I would also be interested in an answer to this question. Is there any way
I can define a new platform? Ideally it would be a file in my site_scons.

Thanks,
Andrew


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Russell, J.J. <russell at slac.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Since I work in a cross-development environment, I would like to add a new
> 'platform' complete with its 'tools' corresponding to each target
> architecture, such that I can say
>
>      env =  Environment (platform = 'my_target_platform')
>
> in much the same way you can say
>
>     env = Environment (platform = 'os2')
>
> I can generate the platform specification and even get it generated,
> however, I am stymied being able to 'register' the platform by name.  I
> glanced over the code that SCons uses, but this seems to assume that one is
> getting the 'platform' from a Python package of that name contained in the
> Platform subdirectory of SCons.   While perhaps I could put my stuff there,
> I would rather not modify the SCons source code in anyway.
>
> To some extent, I realize this is syntactical sugar, but it makes
> accessing the cross-development platforms uniform.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Jim Russell
>
> Dr. James J. Russell
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> 650-926-2583
> russell at slac.stanford.edu
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