[Scons-users] Other standard GNU tools and alternate linker files

[Bill Deegan]

RE #1.
You could also just use a env.Command() with the source as the program and
the output as the bin or hex file.
Since it's not really a post action, but another builder type thing.

RE #2.
See :
https://scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-user.html#chap-command-line


On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 1:41 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 5/22/22 13:11, Duane Ellis wrote:
>
> This isn't going to be a complete answer, just some pointers.
>
> > So – in the Embedded world
> >
> > Question #1
> >
> > Often one uses the “OBJCOPY” tool – or something else to post process
> > the executable (ELF) into a BIN or a HEX file – how should that be
> handled.
> >
> > NOTE: It seems this and many other similar things should be detected as
> > part of Scons but is not
> >
> > Examples include:  NM, LD, OBJCOPY, OBJDUMP, STRIP, etc.
> >
> > How would you suggest handling their uses?
>
>
> Take a look at AddPostAction (and AddPreAction) for some simple stuff.
> It's a bit of a difference whether the processing happens in-place, or
> produces a new file - in the latter case you'd want a way to define that
> such a target is to be created, because it's no longer the same as the
> target of Program or whatever builder you used.
>
>
> > Question #2
> >
> >                  The Linux Kernel uses a reasonably nice GUI based
> > CONFIG tool.
>
> There isn't one of those.
>
> You can specify a whole bunch of variables on the commandline and
> process them, and decide what to do with the outcomes.  You can
> eventually store that information in a file (it's actually a Python
> script as well) so it doesn't have to be retyped each time.  Presumably
> it wouldn't be hard to write a front-end that sets up that file, but one
> isn't provided. Maybe scan this section (or the whole chapter):
>
> https://scons.org/doc/4.3.0/HTML/scons-user/ch10.html
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