Re: SCons working with Ninja
Mats Wichmann <[email protected]>
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On 4/14/21 2:22 PM, Gary Granger wrote: > Hello Don, > > For whatever it's worth, we have a tool to generate ninja files from > SCons, but I did not try to solve the problem of running python > functions from ninja. Instead, the tool generates a ninja build file > from the nodes, and then it lets scons build just the nodes which do not > use command line actions. Most of our python function builders generate > source files and version header files, so they are the leaves of the > dependency graph and it doesn't matter if ninja cannot build them. > Building the few python actions establishes a 'build baseline', then > ninja builds the rest. Obviously not complete, since someone has to > remember to rebuild the ninja file if the python dependencies change. > Although I suppose the tool could be modified to list all the python > targets with a rule to re-run scons to build just those. And maybe this > does not help you, if most of your actions are not command lines. > > That said, we don't use this much because in practice it's easier to > just stick with scons for everything. > > https://github.com/NCAR/eol_scons/blob/master/eol_scons/tools/ninja.py > > The ninja support mentioned by Mats is surprising news, I'll be > interested to see how that works. The current PR is here: https://github.com/SCons/scons/pull/3642 or maybe the folks working on it will comment further. > > Gary > > On 4/14/21 1:42 PM, Don Baldwin wrote: >> Thanks Mats. Will this be implemented in SCons 3.x as well as 4.x? >> We are planning on moving to 4.x fairly soon, but we aren't there yet, >> and will probably not move our older projects to 4.x. Also, do you >> have an ETA of when this will be available? >> >> Also, what about existing tools that claim to support generating Ninja >> scripts from SCons builds, such as: >> >> * https://github.com/RedBeard0531/mongo_module_ninja it's related to Mongo's Ninja module. _______________________________________________ Scons-users mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist4.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-users