[Scons-users] pointer to info on using a project-built tool?

[Bill Deegan]

Any chance you can post any of your code to help better understand your
issue?

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

>
> A tool built using project sources needs to be used to generate binary
> data files from text (json) input files.  We're having some weird
> problems getting this to work (scons code that we thought would set the
> absolute location of the tool seems to be getting replaced so there are
> errors  claiming the tool is not found in the source directory of a file
> being converted, where it of course is not).
>
> The developer appears to have followed the instructions here, using a
> generator.
>
> http://www.scons.org/doc/latest/HTML/scons-user.html#chap-builders-writing
>
> the complications are that the tool is built as part of the project
> source, so it needs somehow to have built before the targets using it
> are encountered (I think this is the reason a generator was used); and
> the project supports several cross-building scenarios (meaning the tool
> has to be built native, not for the target, so it can be run by the
> build host)
>
> Anybody know of a resource with guidance on such?  I haven't had luck
> finding something applicable, maybe my google/stackoverflow-foo is too
> weak.
>
>
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