[Scons-users] Re-2: Re-2: GCC not found Error SCONS 3.1.2

[Mats Wichmann]

On 3/16/20 1:46 AM, Paul Rötzer wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I want to add to my last mail that if I install mingw32-make via MinGW-get it works. 
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Betreff: [Scons-users] Re-2:  Re-2: GCC not found Error SCONS 3.1.2 (16. März 2020, 08:31)
> Von:     Paul Rötzer <Paul.Roetzer at ifta.com>
> An:      scons-users at scons.org <scons-users at scons.org>
> 
>>
>> Hi, 
>>
>> What I found out so far with Scons 3.1.2: 
>> - In mingw.py generate(env) the variable mingw_paths contains 'c:\\MinGW\\
>> bin'
>> - C:\MinGW\bin contains "mingw32-gcc.exe" but not "mingw32-make.exe"
>> - SCons.Tool.find_program_path(env, key_program, default_paths=mingw_paths) 
>> returns None
>>
>> - if I change the key_program variabel in mingw.py to key_program = 'gcc' 
>> it works. 
>>
>> Hopefully this helps 
>>
>> Paul

Come to think of it, when a different question caused me to set up a
mingw environment for some testing, I had to separately install make
with pacman as well, and remember being surprised that the tool was
actually looking for make - after all, scons is a kind of replacement
for Make, no?  :)

I see in the git logs that the change to look for mingw-make was done as
part of an effort to get clang-from-mingw to work. So just flipping this
back:

# This is what we search for to find mingw:
# key_program = 'mingw32-gcc'
key_program = 'mingw32-make'

maybe isn't right for that case, but maybe we could find a different
binary to look for that would be present both in the gcc and in the
clang case, without requiring separate install?