[Scons-users] Windows resource files and variant builds

[Tom Tanner]

That's great, thanks.

Still horrible, mind you, but not so horrible as it might be!

On 17/03/2015 16:48, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Does other.path work?
> -Bill
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Tom Tanner <trtanner at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:trtanner at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     The problem is that the .res file contains a path to a .dll, which
>     when the resource is compiled, causes rc to attempt to read the
>     dll. And the dll in question is part of the build of this project.
>
>     And with a variant dir, you're doing the build from above where
>     the files get stored, so ..\\..\\etc points to outer space.
>
>     In order to get the rc file to be compiled, you need to specify
>     something like
>
>     IDR_LOADER_DLL         BINARY   MOVEABLE  PURE "<variant
>     dir>\\otherModule\\otherModule.dll"
>
>     which I have at eventually got round by doing
>
>     IDR_LOADER_DLL         BINARY   MOVEABLE  PURE    DLL_TO_USE
>
>     and setting  RCFLAGS like this
>
>     other=env.File(os.path.join('..','..','otherModule','otherModule.dll'))
>
>     env.AppendUnique(RCFLAGS=[ '-DDLL_TO_USE="\\"%s\\""'%other.abspath ])
>
>     and it needs all those double quotes and backslashes! But it'd be
>     nice if I could get a 'path relative to where the SConstruct file
>     is' somehow as that .abspath works out as something depressingly long.
>
>
>     On 17/03/2015 15:22, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
>         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 <mailto:trtanner at btinternet.com>
>         <mailto:trtanner at btinternet.com
>         <mailto: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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