[Scons-users] How to put varient dir totally out side of the Source tree

[Mats Wichmann]

On 7/31/24 13:12, Subrata Dasgupta via Scons-users wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am new to Scons. I am currently trying to build a project using Scons. 
> Build within source tree is working for me. I kept multiple SConstruct 
> files within various source tree and internally calling them as required.
> 
> But I am not sure how to separate the build output and source using 
> VariantDir call when variant_dir is totally out side of the source tree.
> 
> Please suggest how to achieve this. A small example will be very helpful.

This has to do with target selection. SCons does not by default select 
targets outside the tree, so if you put the variantdir outside, then 
nothing in the variantdir will be built by default - you have to tell 
it.  To see if this is your problem, try a build like this:

scons /