[Scons-users] compile scons submodule

[Jan Walter]

Hi Mats,

I agree. With C/C++ there are just too many build systems
around. That's why I kind of liked it when Rust and cargo
came around, but who knows how their (build) system will look
like after 30-40 years. The point is the amount of libraries
written in C/C++ are huge and build system come and go
in popular usage. Some are there to stay, some of them
disappear ...

> You have a better situation than most, so feel lucky :-)

... but if you are unlucky, you will have to deal with most of them
at some point or another.

But I do feel lucky ;-)

Cheers,

Jan

On 2/16/23, Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
> Not providing any help in this post, just some comments:
>
> Nearly all of us have to live with the challenge of "external
> components', i.e. ones that are not technically part of the project
> itself.  Comes up often in SCons channels.  The "easiest" answer, I
> guess, has been if the external bits are part of "the SDK" - Visual
> Studio style, or a Linux distribution where the libraries and associated
> development bits are packaged and installed, or one of the many efforts
> people have made to bundle things together for their own setup to make
> things a little easier for their developers.  Otherwise, we have to make
> it work "by hand".  You have a better situation than most, so feel lucky
> :-) - your external bit is written to use the same build system.  Often
> it's project-scons, lib1-cmake, lib2-meson, ... etc