[Scons-users] Using env.Replace to replace ENV

[Tony Peter Long]

Yes. The actual program I am building is a simple hello world application (as simple as you can imagine). My platform is Windows 10, Python is  2.7.15, SCons is 3.0.4, compiler is g++ 4.8.2 included with Cygwin 1.7.29, but I am not actually using Cygwin itself; I am calling SCons from a cmd window. 'C:/cygwin/bin' is included in SCons PATH so it can find g++. Of the two methods I have tried to include PATH in my environment, only the following works:

# Setting ENV=PATH using the Environment constructor:
> PATH = {'PATH' : ['C:/cygwin/bin']}
> env = Environment(ENV = PATH)
> env.Program('helloworld.cxx')

The following method fails:

# Using env.Replace to set ENV after constructing my Environment:
> PATH = {'PATH' : ['C:/cygwin/bin']}
> env = Environment()
> env.Replace(ENV = PATH)
> env.Program('helloworld.cxx')

Gives the following error:

> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\scons.py", line 204, in <module>
> g++ /Fohelloworld.obj /c helloworld.cxx /TP /nologo
> g++: error: /Fohelloworld.obj: No such file or directory
> g++: error: /c: No such file or directory
> g++: error: /TP: No such file or directory
> g++: error: /nologo: No such file or directory
> scons: *** [helloworld.obj] Error 1

My only real question is, is there an intentional reason why the ENV construction variable must be set using the Environment constructor and not using env.Replace?

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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:11:44 -0800
From: Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
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Subject: Re: [Scons-users] FW: Issue: using Replace to replace ENV
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Tony,

Instead of just showing us what you've tried, perhaps also explain what you want to do?
It looks like you want to build using cygwin tools running from windows shell with windows python?
Is that correct?

-Bill

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:59 PM Tony Peter Long <tony.peterlong at nxp.com>
wrote:

> Sorry. Let me try this again.
>
>
>
> From: Tony Peter Long
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 14:02
> To: 'scons-users at scons.org' <scons-users at scons.org>
> Subject: Issue: using Replace to replace ENV PATH
>
>
>
> Hello all.
>
>
>
> I am a new SCons user as well as new to Open Source development in 
> general, so please forgive me if I?m missing some etiquette with this 
> mail, but I have a minor issue when using the Replace method to 
> replace ENV PATH as follows:
>
>
>
> PATH = {'PATH' : ['C:/cygwin/bin']}
>
> *env = Environment()*
>
> *env.Replace(ENV = PATH)*
>
> env.Replace(CXX = 'g++')
>
> env.Replace(CC = 'gcc')
>
> print "PATH = ", env['ENV']
>
> print "CXX = ", env['CXX']
>
> print "CC = ", env['CC']
>
> env.Program('helloworld.cxx')
>
> gives:
>
> scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found - C/C++ 
> compilers most likely not set correctly
>
> File "D:\tony\SConstruct", line 2, in <module>
>
> PATH =  {'PATH': ['C:/cygwin/bin']}
>
> CXX =  g++
>
> CC =  gcc
>
>
>
> scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found - C/C++ 
> compilers most likely not set correctly
>
> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\scons.py", line 204, in <module>
>
> g++ /Fohelloworld.obj /c helloworld.cxx /TP /nologo
>
> g++: error: /Fohelloworld.obj: No such file or directory
>
> g++: error: /c: No such file or directory
>
> g++: error: /TP: No such file or directory
>
> g++: error: /nologo: No such file or directory
>
> scons: *** [helloworld.obj] Error 1
>
>
>
> Whereas:
>
> PATH = {'PATH' : ['C:/cygwin/bin']}
>
> *env = Environment(ENV = PATH)*
>
> *# env.Replace()*
>
> env.Replace(CXX = 'g++')
>
> env.Replace(CC = 'gcc')
>
> print "PATH = ", env['ENV']
>
> print "CXX = ", env['CXX']
>
> print "CC = ", env['CC']
>
> env.Program('helloworld.cxx')
>
> gives:
>
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>
> PATH =  {'PATH': ['C:/cygwin/bin']}
>
> CXX =  g++
>
> CC =  gcc
>
> scons: done reading SConscript files.
>
> scons: Building targets ...
>
>
>
> scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found - C/C++ 
> compilers most likely not set correctly
>
> File "C:\Python27\Scripts\scons.py", line 204, in <module>
>
> g++ -o helloworld.o -c helloworld.cxx
>
> g++ -o helloworld.exe helloworld.o
>
> scons: done building targets.
>
>
>
> I?m not particularly tied to the first implementation, so using the 
> second method suits me just fine. I was just wondering if this is 
> intended, and if so, why?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony Long.
>
>
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