[Scons-users] Windows resource files and variant builds

[Bill Deegan]

Assuming ../../otherModule is your variantdir, then there's no need to have
the path.
As long as you specify the .res file as a source to the linker, it should
do the right thing.

-Bill

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Tom Tanner <trtanner at btinternet.com> wrote:

>
> I've just been putting an scons build into a windows QT project and I ran
> into an interesting thing on a windows
> resource file when using variant dirs
>
> The resource file contains this:
>
> #ifdef _DEBUG
> IDR_LOADER_DLL         BINARY   MOVEABLE  PURE
> "..\\..\\otherModule\\debug\\otherModule.dll"
>
> #else  //  _DEBUG
>
> IDR_LOADER_DLL         BINARY   MOVEABLE  PURE
> "..\\..\\otherModule\\release\\otherModule.dll"
>
> #endif  //  _DEBUG
>
> and I'm rather at a lose at what to put in there. Clearly I can get rid of
> the 'debug' and 'release' bits, but
> it seems like I want to put the <variantdir>\\ in there somehow. And I'm
> somewhere in an SConscript file which
> doesn't know what they are.
>
> The other thing I'm having a problem with is that presumably the generated
> file will depend on the dll. Now, there's
> a build for the dll, but if I put
>
> env.Depends('my.res','..\\..\\otherModule\\otherModule.dll')
>
> I get:
>
> Explicit dependency `source\otherModule\\otherModule.dll' not found
>
> But that module is built by another SConscript in the same build. But
> obviously it's not in 'source'
>
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