scons(1)

NAME
scons - a software construction tool

SYNOPSIS
scons
[options]... [name=val]... [targets]...

DESCRIPTION
The scons utility builds software (or other files) by determining which component pieces must be rebuilt and executing the necessary commands to rebuild them.

By default, scons searches for a file named SConstruct, Sconstruct, sconstruct, SConstruct.py Sconstruct.py or sconstruct.py (in that order) in the current directory and reads its configuration from the first file found. An alternate file name may be specified via the \FC-f\F[] option.

The SConstruct file can specify subsidiary configuration files using the SConscript() function. By convention, these subsidiary files are named SConscript, although any name may be used. (Because of this naming convention, the term "SConscript files" is sometimes used to refer generically to all scons configuration files, regardless of actual file name.)

The configuration files specify the target files to be built, and (optionally) the rules to build those targets. Reasonable default rules exist for building common software components (executable programs, object files, libraries), so that for most software projects, only the target and input files need be specified.

Before reading the SConstruct file, scons looks for a directory named site_scons in various system directories (see below) and the directory containing the SConstruct file; for each of those dirs which exists, site_scons is prepended to sys.path, the file site_scons/site_init.py, is evaluated if it exists, and the directory site_scons/site_tools is prepended to the default toolpath if it exists. See the \FC--no-site-dir\F[] and \FC--site-dir\F[] options for more details.

scons reads and executes the SConscript files as Python scripts, so you may use normal Python scripting capabilities (such as flow control, data manipulation, and imported Python libraries) to handle complicated build situations. scons, however, reads and executes all of the SConscript files before it begins building any targets. To make this obvious, scons prints the following messages about what it is doing:

$ scons foo.out
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets  ...
cp foo.in foo.out
scons: done building targets.
$

The status messages (everything except the line that reads "cp foo.in foo.out") may be suppressed using the \FC-Q\F[] option.

scons does not automatically propagate the external environment used to execute scons to the commands used to build target files. This is so that builds will be guaranteed repeatable regardless of the environment variables set at the time scons is invoked. This also means that if the compiler or other commands that you want to use to build your target files are not in standard system locations, scons will not find them unless you explicitly set the PATH to include those locations. Whenever you create an scons construction environment, you can propagate the value of PATH from your external environment as follows:

import os
env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH' : os.environ['PATH']})

Similarly, if the commands use external environment variables like PATH, HOME, JAVA_HOME, LANG, SHELL, TERM, etc., these variables can also be explicitly propagated:

import os
env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH': os.environ['PATH'],
                         'HOME': os.environ['HOME']})

Or you may explicitly propagate the invoking user's complete external environment:

import os
env = Environment(ENV = os.environ)

This comes at the expense of making your build dependent on the user's environment being set correctly, but it may be more convenient for many configurations.

scons can scan known input files automatically for dependency information (for example, #include statements in C or C++ files) and will rebuild dependent files appropriately whenever any "included" input file changes. scons supports the ability to define new scanners for unknown input file types.

scons knows how to fetch files automatically from SCCS or RCS subdirectories using SCCS, RCS or BitKeeper.

scons is normally executed in a top-level directory containing a SConstruct file, optionally specifying as command-line arguments the target file or files to be built.

By default, the command

scons

will build all target files in or below the current directory. Explicit default targets (to be built when no targets are specified on the command line) may be defined in the SConscript file(s) using the Default() function, described below.

Even when Default() targets are specified in the SConscript file(s), all target files in or below the current directory may be built by explicitly specifying the current directory (.) as a command-line target:

scons .

Building all target files, including any files outside of the current directory, may be specified by supplying a command-line target of the root directory (on POSIX systems):

scons /

or the path name(s) of the volume(s) in which all the targets should be built (on Windows systems):

scons C:\ D:\

To build only specific targets, supply them as command-line arguments:

scons foo bar

in which case only the specified targets will be built (along with any derived files on which they depend).

Specifying "cleanup" targets in SConscript files is not usually necessary. The \FC-c\F[] flag removes all files necessary to build the specified target:

scons -c .

to remove all target files, or:

scons -c build export

to remove target files under build and export. Additional files or directories to remove can be specified using the Clean() function. Conversely, targets that would normally be removed by the \FC-c\F[] invocation can be prevented from being removed by using the NoClean() function.

A subset of a hierarchical tree may be built by remaining at the top-level directory (where the SConstruct file lives) and specifying the subdirectory as the target to be built:

scons src/subdir

or by changing directory and invoking scons with the \FC-u\F[] option, which traverses up the directory hierarchy until it finds the SConstruct file, and then builds targets relatively to the current subdirectory:

cd src/subdir
scons -u .

scons supports building multiple targets in parallel via a \FC-j\F[] option that takes, as its argument, the number of simultaneous tasks that may be spawned:

scons -j 4

builds four targets in parallel, for example.

scons can maintain a cache of target (derived) files that can be shared between multiple builds. When caching is enabled in a SConscript file, any target files built by scons will be copied to the cache. If an up-to-date target file is found in the cache, it will be retrieved from the cache instead of being rebuilt locally. Caching behavior may be disabled and controlled in other ways by the \FC--cache-force\F[], \FC--cache-disable\F[], \FC--cache-readonly\F[], and \FC--cache-show\F[] command-line options. The \FC--random\F[] option is useful to prevent multiple builds from trying to update the cache simultaneously.

Values of variables to be passed to the SConscript file(s) may be specified on the command line:

scons debug=1 .

These variables are available in SConscript files through the ARGUMENTS dictionary, and can be used in the SConscript file(s) to modify the build in any way:

if ARGUMENTS.get('debug', 0):
    env = Environment(CCFLAGS = '-g')
else:
    env = Environment()

The command-line variable arguments are also available in the ARGLIST list, indexed by their order on the command line. This allows you to process them in order rather than by name, if necessary. ARGLIST[0] returns a tuple containing (argname, argvalue). A Python exception is thrown if you try to access a list member that does not exist.

scons requires either Python 2.7 or Python 3.5 or higher. There should be no other dependencies or requirements to run scons.

By default, scons knows how to search for available programming tools on various systems. On Windows systems, scons searches in order for the Microsoft Visual C++ tools, the MinGW tool chain, the Intel compiler tools, and the PharLap ETS compiler. On OS/2 systems, scons searches in order for the OS/2 compiler, the GCC tool chain, and the Microsoft Visual C++ tools, On SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, and Sun Solaris systems, scons searches for the native compiler tools (MIPSpro, Visual Age, aCC, and Forte tools respectively) and the GCC tool chain. On all other platforms, including POSIX (Linux and UNIX) platforms, scons searches in order for the GCC tool chain, the Microsoft Visual C++ tools, and the Intel compiler tools. You may, of course, override these default values by appropriate configuration of Environment construction variables.

OPTIONS
In general, scons supports the same command-line options as GNU make, and many of those supported by cons.

-b  Ignored for compatibility with non-GNU versions of make.

-c, --clean, --remove
    Clean up by removing all target files for which a construction command is specified. Also remove any files or directories associated to the construction command using the Clean() function. Will not remove any targets specified by the NoClean() function.

--cache-debug=file
    Print debug information about the CacheDir() derived-file caching to the specified file. If file is - (a hyphen), the debug information are printed to the standard output. The printed messages describe what signature file names are being looked for in, retrieved from, or written to the CacheDir() directory tree.

--cache-disable, --no-cache
    Disable the derived-file caching specified by CacheDir(). scons will neither retrieve files from the cache nor copy files to the cache.

--cache-force, --cache-populate
    When using CacheDir(), populate a cache by copying any already-existing, up-to-date derived files to the cache, in addition to files built by this invocation. This is useful to populate a new cache with all the current derived files, or to add to the cache any derived files recently built with caching disabled via the \FC--cache-disable\F[] option.

--cache-readonly
    Use the cache (if enabled) for reading, but do not not update the cache with changed files.

--cache-show
    When using CacheDir() and retrieving a derived file from the cache, show the command that would have been executed to build the file, instead of the usual report, "Retrieved `file' from cache." This will produce consistent output for build logs, regardless of whether a target file was rebuilt or retrieved from the cache.

--config=mode
    This specifies how the Configure call should use or generate the results of configuration tests. The option should be specified from among the following choices:

--config=auto
    scons will use its normal dependency mechanisms to decide if a test must be rebuilt or not. This saves time by not running the same configuration tests every time you invoke scons, but will overlook changes in system header files or external commands (such as compilers) if you don't specify those dependecies explicitly. This is the default behavior.

--config=force
    If this option is specified, all configuration tests will be re-run regardless of whether the cached results are out of date. This can be used to explicitly force the configuration tests to be updated in response to an otherwise unconfigured change in a system header file or compiler.

--config=cache
    If this option is specified, no configuration tests will be rerun and all results will be taken from cache. Note that scons will still consider it an error if --config=cache is specified and a necessary test does not yet have any results in the cache.

-C directory, --directory=directory
    Change to the specified directory before searching for the SConstruct, Sconstruct, sconstruct, SConstruct.py Sconstruct.py or sconstruct.py file, or doing anything else. Multiple \FC-C\F[] options are interpreted relative to the previous one, and the right-most \FC-C\F[] option wins. (This option is nearly equivalent to \FC-f directory/SConstruct\F[], except that it will search for SConstruct, Sconstruct, sconstruct, SConstruct.py Sconstruct.py or sconstruct.py in the specified directory.)

-D  Works exactly the same way as the \FC-u\F[] option except for the way default targets are handled. When this option is used and no targets are specified on the command line, all default targets are built, whether or not they are below the current directory.

--debug=type[,type...]
    Debug the build process. type specifies the kind of debugging info to emit. Multiple types may be specified, separated by commas. The following entries show the recognized types:

--debug=action-timestamps
    Prints additional time profiling information. For each command, shows the absolute start and end times. This may be useful in debugging parallel builds. Implies the \FC--debug=time\F[] option. Since \FCscons\F[] 3.1.

--debug=count
    Print how many objects are created of the various classes used internally by SCons before and after reading the SConscript files and before and after building targets. This is not supported when SCons is executed with the Python \FC-O\F[] (optimized) option or when the SCons modules have been compiled with optimization (that is, when executing from *.pyo files).

--debug=duplicate
    Print a line for each unlink/relink (or copy) of a variant file from its source file. Includes debugging info for unlinking stale variant files, as well as unlinking old targets before building them.

--debug=explain
    Print an explanation of precisely why scons is deciding to (re-)build any targets. (Note: this does not print anything for targets that are not rebuilt.)

--debug=findlibs
    Instruct the scanner that searches for libraries to print a message about each potential library name it is searching for, and about the actual libraries it finds.

--debug=includes
    Print the include tree after each top-level target is built. This is generally used to find out what files are included by the sources of a given derived file:
    $ scons --debug=includes foo.o

--debug=memoizer
    Prints a summary of hits and misses using the Memoizer, an internal subsystem that counts how often SCons uses cached values in memory instead of recomputing them each time they're needed.

--debug=memory
    Prints how much memory SCons uses before and after reading the SConscript files and before and after building targets.

--debug=objects
    Prints a list of the various objects of the various classes used internally by SCons.

--debug=pdb
    Re-run SCons under the control of the pdb Python debugger.

--debug=prepare
    Print a line each time any target (internal or external) is prepared for building. scons prints this for each target it considers, even if that target is up to date (see also --debug=explain). This can help debug problems with targets that aren't being built; it shows whether scons is at least considering them or not.

--debug=presub
    Print the raw command line used to build each target before the construction environment variables are substituted. Also shows which targets are being built by this command. Output looks something like this:
    $ scons --debug=presub
    Building myprog.o with action(s):
      $SHCC $SHCFLAGS $SHCCFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $_CPPINCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCES
    ...

--debug=stacktrace
    Prints an internal Python stack trace when encountering an otherwise unexplained error.

--debug=time
    Prints various time profiling information:

    •   The time spent executing each individual build command

    •   The total build time (time SCons ran from beginning to end)

    •   The total time spent reading and executing SConscript files

    •   The total time spent SCons itself spend running (that is, not counting reading and executing SConscript files)

    •   The total time spent executing all build commands

    •   The elapsed wall-clock time spent executing those build commands

    •   The time spent processing each file passed to the SConscript() function
(When scons is executed without the \FC-j\F[] option, the elapsed wall-clock time will typically be slightly longer than the total time spent executing all the build commands, due to the SCons processing that takes place in between executing each command. When scons is executed with the \FC-j\F[] option, and your build configuration allows good parallelization, the elapsed wall-clock time should be significantly smaller than the total time spent executing all the build commands, since multiple build commands and intervening SCons processing should take place in parallel.)

--diskcheck=types
    Enable specific checks for whether or not there is a file on disk where the SCons configuration expects a directory (or vice versa), and whether or not RCS or SCCS sources exist when searching for source and include files. The types argument can be set to: all, to enable all checks explicitly (the default behavior); none, to disable all such checks; match, to check that files and directories on disk match SCons' expected configuration; rcs, to check for the existence of an RCS source for any missing source or include files; sccs, to check for the existence of an SCCS source for any missing source or include files. Multiple checks can be specified separated by commas; for example, \FC--diskcheck=sccs,rcs\F[] would still check for SCCS and RCS sources, but disable the check for on-disk matches of files and directories. Disabling some or all of these checks can provide a performance boost for large configurations, or when the configuration will check for files and/or directories across networked or shared file systems, at the slight increased risk of an incorrect build or of not handling errors gracefully (if include files really should be found in SCCS or RCS, for example, or if a file really does exist where the SCons configuration expects a directory).

--duplicate=ORDER
    There are three ways to duplicate files in a build tree: hard links, soft (symbolic) links and copies. The default behaviour of SCons is to prefer hard links to soft links to copies. You can specify different behaviours with this option. ORDER must be one of hard-soft-copy (the default), soft-hard-copy, hard-copy, soft-copy or copy. SCons will attempt to duplicate files using the mechanisms in the specified order.

--enable-virtualenv
    Import virtualenv-related variables to SCons.

-f file, --file=file, --makefile=file, --sconstruct=file
    Use file as the initial SConscript file. Multiple \FC-f\F[] options may be specified, in which case scons will read all of the specified files.

-h, --help
    Print a local help message for this build, if one is defined in the SConscript file(s), plus a line that describes the \FC-H\F[] option for command-line option help. If no local help message is defined, prints the standard help message about command-line options. Exits after displaying the appropriate message.

-H, --help-options
    Print the standard help message about command-line options and exit.

-i, --ignore-errors
    Ignore all errors from commands executed to rebuild files.

-I directory, --include-dir=directory
    Specifies a directory to search for imported Python modules. If several \FC-I\F[] options are used, the directories are searched in the order specified.

--ignore-virtualenv
    Suppress importing virtualenv-related variables to SCons.

--implicit-cache
    Cache implicit dependencies. This causes scons to use the implicit (scanned) dependencies from the last time it was run instead of scanning the files for implicit dependencies. This can significantly speed up SCons, but with the following limitations:

scons will not detect changes to implicit dependency search paths (e.g. CPPPATH, LIBPATH) that would ordinarily cause different versions of same-named files to be used.

scons will miss changes in the implicit dependencies in cases where a new implicit dependency is added earlier in the implicit dependency search path (e.g. CPPPATH, LIBPATH) than a current implicit dependency with the same name.

--implicit-deps-changed
    Forces SCons to ignore the cached implicit dependencies. This causes the implicit dependencies to be rescanned and recached. This implies \FC--implicit-cache\F[].

--implicit-deps-unchanged
    Force SCons to ignore changes in the implicit dependencies. This causes cached implicit dependencies to always be used. This implies \FC--implicit-cache\F[].

--install-sandbox=path
    When using the \FCInstall\F[] functions, prepend path to the installation paths such that all installed files will be placed underneath path.

--interactive
    Starts SCons in interactive mode. The SConscript files are read once and a scons>>> prompt is printed. Targets may now be rebuilt by typing commands at interactive prompt without having to re-read the SConscript files and re-initialize the dependency graph from scratch. SCons interactive mode supports the following commands:

        build[OPTIONS] [TARGETS] ...
            Builds the specified TARGETS (and their dependencies) with the specified SCons command-line OPTIONS. b and scons are synonyms. The following SCons command-line options affect the build command:
            --cache-debug=FILE
            --cache-disable, --no-cache
            --cache-force, --cache-populate
            --cache-readonly
            --cache-show
            --debug=TYPE
            -i, --ignore-errors
            -j N, --jobs=N
            -k, --keep-going
            -n, --no-exec, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
            -Q
            -s, --silent, --quiet
            --taskmastertrace=FILE
            --tree=OPTIONS
    Any other SCons command-line options that are specified do not cause errors but have no effect on the build command (mainly because they affect how the SConscript files are read, which only happens once at the beginning of interactive mode).

        clean[OPTIONS] [TARGETS] ...
            Cleans the specified TARGETS (and their dependencies) with the specified options. c is a synonym. This command is itself a synonym for \FCbuild --clean\F[]

        exit
            Exits SCons interactive mode. You can also exit by terminating input (CTRL+D on UNIX or Linux systems, CTRL+Z on Windows systems).

        help[COMMAND]
            Provides a help message about the commands available in SCons interactive mode. If COMMAND is specified, h and ? are synonyms.

        shell[COMMANDLINE]
            Executes the specified COMMANDLINE in a subshell. If no COMMANDLINE is specified, executes the interactive command interpreter specified in the SHELL environment variable (on UNIX and Linux systems) or the COMSPEC environment variable (on Windows systems). sh and ! are synonyms.

        version
            Prints SCons version information.

An empty line repeats the last typed command. Command-line editing can be used if the readline module is available.

$ scons --interactive
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons>>> build -n prog
scons>>> exit

-j N, --jobs=N
    Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously. If there is more than one \FC-j\F[] option, the last one is effective.

-k, --keep-going
    Continue as much as possible after an error. The target that failed and those that depend on it will not be remade, but other targets specified on the command line will still be processed.

-m  Ignored for compatibility with non-GNU versions of make.

--max-drift=SECONDS
    Set the maximum expected drift in the modification time of files to SECONDS. This value determines how long a file must be unmodified before its cached content signature will be used instead of calculating a new content signature (MD5 checksum) of the file's contents. The default value is 2 days, which means a file must have a modification time of at least two days ago in order to have its cached content signature used. A negative value means to never cache the content signature and to ignore the cached value if there already is one. A value of 0 means to always use the cached signature, no matter how old the file is.

--md5-chunksize=KILOBYTES
    Set the block size used to compute MD5 signatures to KILOBYTES. This value determines the size of the chunks which are read in at once when computing MD5 signatures. Files below that size are fully stored in memory before performing the signature computation while bigger files are read in block-by-block. A huge block-size leads to high memory consumption while a very small block-size slows down the build considerably. The default value is to use a chunk size of 64 kilobytes, which should be appropriate for most uses.

-n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon
    No execute. Print the commands that would be executed to build any out-of-date target files, but do not execute the commands.

--no-site-dir
    Prevents the automatic addition of the standard site_scons dirs to sys.path. Also prevents loading the site_scons/site_init.py modules if they exist, and prevents adding their site_scons/site_tools dirs to the toolpath.

--profile=file
    Run SCons under the Python profiler and save the results in the specified file. The results may be analyzed using the Python pstats module.

-q, --question
    Do not run any commands, or print anything. Just return an exit status that is zero if the specified targets are already up to date, non-zero otherwise.

-Q  Quiets SCons status messages about reading SConscript files, building targets and entering directories. Commands that are executed to rebuild target files are still printed.

--random
    Build dependencies in a random order. This is useful when building multiple trees simultaneously with caching enabled, to prevent multiple builds from simultaneously trying to build or retrieve the same target files.

-s, --silent, --quiet
    Silent. Do not print commands that are executed to rebuild target files. Also suppresses SCons status messages.

-S, --no-keep-going, --stop
    Ignored for compatibility with GNU make.

--site-dir=dir
    Uses the named dir as the site dir rather than the default site_scons dirs. This dir will get prepended to sys.path, the module dir/site_init.py will get loaded if it exists, and dir/site_tools will get added to the default toolpath. The default set of site_scons dirs used when \FC--site-dir\F[] is not specified depends on the system platform, as follows. Note that the directories are examined in the order given, from most generic to most specific, so the last-executed site_init.py file is the most specific one (which gives it the chance to override everything else), and the dirs are prepended to the paths, again so the last dir examined comes first in the resulting path.

Windows:
    %ALLUSERSPROFILE/Application Data/scons/site_scons
    %USERPROFILE%/Local Settings/Application Data/scons/site_scons
    %APPDATA%/scons/site_scons
    %HOME%/.scons/site_scons
    ./site_scons

Mac OS X:
    /Library/Application Support/SCons/site_scons
    /opt/local/share/scons/site_scons (for MacPorts)
    /sw/share/scons/site_scons (for Fink)
    $HOME/Library/Application Support/SCons/site_scons
    $HOME/.scons/site_scons
    ./site_scons

Solaris:
    /opt/sfw/scons/site_scons
    /usr/share/scons/site_scons
    $HOME/.scons/site_scons
    ./site_scons

Linux, HPUX, and other Posix-like systems:
    /usr/share/scons/site_scons
    $HOME/.scons/site_scons
    ./site_scons

--stack-size=KILOBYTES
    Set the size stack used to run threads to KILOBYTES. This value determines the stack size of the threads used to run jobs. These are the threads that execute the actions of the builders for the nodes that are out-of-date. Note that this option has no effect unless the num_jobs option, which corresponds to -j and --jobs, is larger than one. Using a stack size that is too small may cause stack overflow errors. This usually shows up as segmentation faults that cause scons to abort before building anything. Using a stack size that is too large will cause scons to use more memory than required and may slow down the entire build process. The default value is to use a stack size of 256 kilobytes, which should be appropriate for most uses. You should not need to increase this value unless you encounter stack overflow errors.

-t, --touch
    Ignored for compatibility with GNU make. (Touching a file to make it appear up-to-date is unnecessary when using scons.)

--taskmastertrace=file
    Prints trace information to the specified file about how the internal Taskmaster object evaluates and controls the order in which Nodes are built. A file name of - may be used to specify the standard output.

-tree=options
    Prints a tree of the dependencies after each top-level target is built. This prints out some or all of the tree, in various formats, depending on the options specified:

--tree=all
    Print the entire dependency tree after each top-level target is built. This prints out the complete dependency tree, including implicit dependencies and ignored dependencies.

--tree=derived
    Restricts the tree output to only derived (target) files, not source files.

--tree=status
    Prints status information for each displayed node.

--tree=prune
    Prunes the tree to avoid repeating dependency information for nodes that have already been displayed. Any node that has already been displayed will have its name printed in [square brackets], as an indication that the dependencies for that node can be found by searching for the relevant output higher up in the tree.

Multiple options may be specified, separated by commas:

# Prints only derived files, with status information:
scons --tree=derived,status
# Prints all dependencies of target, with status information
# and pruning dependencies of already-visited Nodes:
scons --tree=all,prune,status target

-u, --up, --search-up
    Walks up the directory structure until an SConstruct , Sconstruct , sconstruct , SConstruct.py Sconstruct.py or sconstruct.py file is found, and uses that as the top of the directory tree. If no targets are specified on the command line, only targets at or below the current directory will be built.

-U  Works exactly the same way as the \FC-u\F[] option except for the way default targets are handled. When this option is used and no targets are specified on the command line, all default targets that are defined in the SConscript(s) in the current directory are built, regardless of what directory the resultant targets end up in.

-v, --version
    Print the scons version, copyright information, list of authors, and any other relevant information. Then exit.

-w, --print-directory
    Print a message containing the working directory before and after other processing.

--no-print-directory
    Turn off -w, even if it was turned on implicitly.

--warn=type, --warn=no-type
    Enable or disable warnings. type specifies the type of warnings to be enabled or disabled:

--warn=all, --warn=no-all
    Enables or disables all warnings.

--warn=cache-version, --warn=no-cache-version
    Enables or disables warnings about the cache directory not using the latest configuration information CacheDir(). These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=cache-write-error, --warn=no-cache-write-error
    Enables or disables warnings about errors trying to write a copy of a built file to a specified CacheDir(). These warnings are disabled by default.

--warn=corrupt-sconsign, --warn=no-corrupt-sconsign
    Enables or disables warnings about unfamiliar signature data in \FC.sconsign\F[] files. These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=dependency, --warn=no-dependency
    Enables or disables warnings about dependencies. These warnings are disabled by default.

--warn=deprecated, --warn=no-deprecated
    Enables or disables all warnings about use of currently deprecated features. These warnings are enabled by default. Note that the \FC--warn=no-deprecated\F[] option does not disable warnings about absolutely all deprecated features. Warnings for some deprecated features that have already been through several releases with deprecation warnings may be mandatory for a release or two before they are officially no longer supported by SCons. Warnings for some specific deprecated features may be enabled or disabled individually; see below.

--warn=duplicate-environment, --warn=no-duplicate-environment
    Enables or disables warnings about attempts to specify a build of a target with two different construction environments that use the same action. These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=fortran-cxx-mix, --warn=no-fortran-cxx-mix
    Enables or disables the specific warning about linking Fortran and C++ object files in a single executable, which can yield unpredictable behavior with some compilers.

--warn=future-deprecated, --warn=no-future-deprecated
    Enables or disables warnings about features that will be deprecated in the future. These warnings are disabled by default. Enabling this warning is especially recommended for projects that redistribute SCons configurations for other users to build, so that the project can be warned as soon as possible about to-be-deprecated features that may require changes to the configuration.

--warn=link, --warn=no-link
    Enables or disables warnings about link steps.

--warn=misleading-keywords, --warn=no-misleading-keywords
    Enables or disables warnings about use of the misspelled keywords targets and sources when calling Builders. (Note the last s characters, the correct spellings are target and source.) These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=missing-sconscript, --warn=no-missing-sconscript
    Enables or disables warnings about missing SConscript files. These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=no-object-count, --warn=no-no-object-count
    Enables or disables warnings about the \FC--debug=object\F[] feature not working when scons is run with the Python \FC-O\F[] option or from optimized Python (.pyo) modules.

--warn=no-parallel-support, --warn=no-no-parallel-support
    Enables or disables warnings about the version of Python not being able to support parallel builds when the \FC-j\F[] option is used. These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=python-version, --warn=no-python-version
    Enables or disables the warning about running SCons with a deprecated version of Python. These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=reserved-variable, --warn=no-reserved-variable
    Enables or disables warnings about attempts to set the reserved construction variable names CHANGED_SOURCES, CHANGED_TARGETS, TARGET, TARGETS, SOURCE, SOURCES, UNCHANGED_SOURCES or UNCHANGED_TARGETS. These warnings are disabled by default.

--warn=stack-size, --warn=no-stack-size
    Enables or disables warnings about requests to set the stack size that could not be honored. These warnings are enabled by default.

--warn=target_not_build, --warn=no-target_not_built
    Enables or disables warnings about a build rule not building the expected targets. These warnings are not currently enabled by default.

-Y repository, --repository=repository, --srcdir=repository
    Search the specified repository for any input and target files not found in the local directory hierarchy. Multiple \FC-Y\F[] options may be specified, in which case the repositories are searched in the order specified.

CONFIGURATION FILE REFERENCE

  CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENTS
A construction environment is the basic means by which the SConscript files communicate build information to scons. A new construction environment is created using the Environment function:

env = Environment()

Variables, called construction variables, may be set in a construction environment either by specifying them as keywords when the object is created or by assigning them a value after the object is created:

env = Environment(FOO = 'foo')
env['BAR'] = 'bar'

As a convenience, construction variables may also be set or modified by the parse_flags keyword argument, which applies the \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[] [scons(1)] method (described below) to the argument value after all other processing is completed. This is useful either if the exact content of the flags is unknown (for example, read from a control file) or if the flags are distributed to a number of construction variables.

env = Environment(parse_flags='-Iinclude -DEBUG -lm')

This example adds 'include' to CPPPATH, 'EBUG' to CPPDEFINES, and 'm' to LIBS.

By default, a new construction environment is initialized with a set of builder methods and construction variables that are appropriate for the current platform. An optional platform keyword argument may be used to specify that an environment should be initialized for a different platform:

env = Environment(platform = 'cygwin')
env = Environment(platform = 'os2')
env = Environment(platform = 'posix')
env = Environment(platform = 'win32')

Specifying a platform initializes the appropriate construction variables in the environment to use and generate file names with prefixes and suffixes appropriate for the platform.

Note that the win32 platform adds the SystemDrive and SystemRoot variables from the user's external environment to the construction environment's ENV dictionary. This is so that any executed commands that use sockets to connect with other systems (such as fetching source files from external CVS repository specifications like :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/scons) will work on Windows systems.

The platform argument may be function or callable object, in which case the Environment() method will call the specified argument to update the new construction environment:

\FC
def my_platform(env):
    env['VAR'] = 'xyzzy'
env = Environment(platform = my_platform)
\F[].fi

Additionally, a specific set of tools
with which to initialize the environment
may be specified using the optional keyword argument
\FCtools\F[]:

env = Environment(tools=['msvc', 'lex'])

The \FCtools\F[] argument overrides the tool list, it does not add to it, so be sure to include all the tools you need. For example if you are building a c/c++ program you must add a tool for both compiler and linker, as in \FCtools=['clang', 'link']\F[]. The tool name \FC'default'\F[] can be used to retain the default list.

Non-built-in tools may be specified using the optional \FCtoolpath\F[] keyword argument:

env = Environment(tools=['default', 'foo'], toolpath=['tools'])

This looks for a tool specification in \FCtools/foo.py\F[] as well as using the ordinary default tools for the platform.

A tool specification must include two functions: \FCgenerate(env, **kw)\F[] and \FCexists(env)\F[]. The \FCgenerate\F[] function modifies the environment referenced by \FCenv\F[] to set up variables so that the tool can be executed; it may use any keyword arguments that the user supplies in \FCkw\F[] (see below) to vary its initialization. The \FCexists\F[] function should return a true value if the tool is available.

Tools in the toolpath are used before any of the built-in ones. For example, adding \FCgcc.py\F[] to the toolpath would override the built-in gcc tool. Also note that the toolpath is stored in the environment for use by later calls to Clone() and Tool() methods:

base = Environment(toolpath=['custom_path'])
derived = base.Clone(tools=['custom_tool'])
derived.CustomBuilder()

The elements of the tools list may also be functions or callable objects, in which case the Environment() method will call the specified elements to update the new construction environment:

\FC
def my_tool(env):
    env['XYZZY'] = 'xyzzy'
env = Environment(tools = [my_tool])
\F[].fi

The individual elements of the tools list
may also themselves be two-element lists of the form
(toolname, kw_dict).
SCons searches for the
toolname
specification file as described above, and
passes
kw_dict,
which must be a dictionary, as keyword arguments to the tool's
generate
function.
The
generate
function can use the arguments to modify the tool's behavior
by setting up the environment in different ways
or otherwise changing its initialization.

\FC
# in tools/my_tool.py:
def generate(env, **kw):
  # Sets MY_TOOL to the value of keyword argument 'arg1' or 1.
  env['MY_TOOL'] = kw.get('arg1', '1')
def exists(env):
  return True
# in SConstruct:
env = Environment(tools=['default', ('my_tool', {'arg1': 'abc'})],
                  toolpath=['tools'])
\F[].fi

The tool definition (i.e. my_tool()) can use the PLATFORM variable from
the environment it receives to customize the tool for different platforms.

If no tool list is specified, then SCons will auto-detect the installed
tools using the PATH variable in the ENV construction variable and the
platform name when the Environment is constructed. Changing the PATH
variable after the Environment is constructed will not cause the tools to
be redetected.

One feature now present within Scons is the ability to have nested tools.
Tools which can be located within a subdirectory in the toolpath.
With a nested tool name the dot represents a directory seperator

\FC
# namespaced builder
env = Environment(ENV=os.environ, tools=['SubDir1.SubDir2.SomeTool'])
env.SomeTool(targets, sources)
# Search Paths
# SCons\Tool\SubDir1\SubDir2\SomeTool.py
# SCons\Tool\SubDir1\SubDir2\SomeTool\__init__.py
# .\site_scons\site_tools\SubDir1\SubDir2\SomeTool.py
# .\site_scons\site_tools\SubDir1\SubDir2\SomeTool\__init__.py
\F[].fi

SCons supports the following tool specifications out of the box:

386asm
    Sets construction variables for the 386ASM assembler
    for the Phar Lap ETS embedded operating system.
    Sets: $AS [scons(1)], $ASCOM [scons(1)], $ASFLAGS [scons(1)], $ASPPCOM [scons(1)], $ASPPFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CC [scons(1)], $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPINCFLAGS [scons(1)].

aixc++
    Sets construction variables for the IMB xlc / Visual Age C++ compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCXX [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].

aixcc
    Sets construction variables for the IBM xlc / Visual Age C compiler.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCC [scons(1)].

aixf77
    Sets construction variables for the IBM Visual Age f77 Fortran compiler.
    Sets: $F77 [scons(1)], $SHF77 [scons(1)].

aixlink
    Sets construction variables for the IBM Visual Age linker.
    Sets: $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

applelink
    Sets construction variables for the Apple linker
    (similar to the GNU linker).
    Sets: $APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)], $APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)], $APPLELINK_NO_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)], $APPLELINK_NO_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)], $FRAMEWORKPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)], $LDMODULEFLAGS [scons(1)], $LDMODULEPREFIX [scons(1)], $LDMODULESUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $_APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)], $_APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)], $_FRAMEWORKPATH [scons(1)], $_FRAMEWORKS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $FRAMEWORKSFLAGS [scons(1)].

ar  Sets construction variables for the ar library archiver.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $ARCOM [scons(1)], $ARFLAGS [scons(1)], $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $RANLIB [scons(1)], $RANLIBCOM [scons(1)], $RANLIBFLAGS [scons(1)].

as  Sets construction variables for the as assembler.
    Sets: $AS [scons(1)], $ASCOM [scons(1)], $ASFLAGS [scons(1)], $ASPPCOM [scons(1)], $ASPPFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CC [scons(1)], $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPINCFLAGS [scons(1)].

bcc32
    Sets construction variables for the bcc32 compiler.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCCOM [scons(1)], $CCFLAGS [scons(1)], $CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CFLAGS [scons(1)], $CPPDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $INCPREFIX [scons(1)], $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHCC [scons(1)], $SHCCCOM [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPINCFLAGS [scons(1)].

cc  Sets construction variables for generic POSIX C compilers.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCCOM [scons(1)], $CCFLAGS [scons(1)], $CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CFLAGS [scons(1)], $CPPDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $FRAMEWORKPATH [scons(1)], $FRAMEWORKS [scons(1)], $INCPREFIX [scons(1)], $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHCC [scons(1)], $SHCCCOM [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $PLATFORM [scons(1)].

clang
    Set construction variables for the Clang C compiler.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)].

clangxx
    Set construction variables for the Clang C++ compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)], $STATIC_AND_SHARED_OBJECTS_ARE_THE_SAME [scons(1)].

cvf Sets construction variables for the Compaq Visual Fortran compiler.
    Sets: $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $FORTRANMODDIR [scons(1)], $FORTRANMODDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $FORTRANMODDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)], $OBJSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)], $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)], $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)].

cXX Sets construction variables for generic POSIX C++ compilers.
    Sets: $CPPDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXCOM [scons(1)], $CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $INCPREFIX [scons(1)], $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $OBJSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHCXX [scons(1)], $SHCXXCOM [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CXXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

cyglink
    Set construction variables for cygwin linker/loader.
    Sets: $IMPLIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $IMPLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $RPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $RPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $SHLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $_LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $_SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)].

default
    Sets \FCconstruction variables\F[] for a default list of Tool modules.
    Use default
    in the tools list to retain the original defaults,
    since the \FCtools\F[] parameter
    is treated as a literal statement of the tools
    to be made available in that \FCconstruction environment\F[], not an addition.
    The list of tools selected by default is not static,
    but is dependent both on
    the platform and on the software installed on the platform.
    Some tools will not initialize if an underlying command is
    not found, and some tools are selected from a list of choices
    on a first-found basis. The finished tool list can be
    examined by inspecting the TOOLS \FCconstruction variable\F[]
    in the \FCconstruction environment\F[].
    On all platforms, all tools from the following list
    are selected whose respective conditions are met:
    filesystem, wix, lex, yacc, rpcgen, swig,
    jar, javac, javah, rmic, dvipdf, dvips, gs,
    tex, latex, pdflatex, pdftex, tar, zip, textfile.
    On Linux systems, the default tools list selects
    (first-found): a C compiler from
    gcc, intelc, icc, cc;
    a C++ compiler from
    g++, intelc, icc, cxx;
    an assembler from
    gas, nasm, masm;
    a linker from
    gnulink, ilink;
    a Fortran compiler from
    gfortran, g77, ifort, ifl, f95, f90, f77;
    and a static archiver 'ar'.
    It also selects all found from the list
    m4, rpm.
    On Windows systems, the default tools list selects
    (first-found): a C compiler from
    msvc, mingw, gcc, intelc, icl, icc, cc, bcc32;
    a C++ compiler from
    msvc, intelc, icc, g++, cxx, bcc32;
    an assembler from
    masm, nasm, gas, 386asm;
    a linker from
    mslink, gnulink, ilink, linkloc, ilink32;
    a Fortran compiler from
    gfortran, g77, ifl, cvf, f95, f90, fortran;
    and a static archiver from
    mslib, ar, tlib;
    It also selects all found from the list
    msvs, midl.
    On MacOS systems, the default tools list selects
    (first-found): a C compiler from
    gcc, cc;
    a C++ compiler from
    g++, cxx;
    an assembler 'as';
    a linker from
    applelink, gnulink;
    a Fortran compiler from
    gfortran, f95, f90, g77;
    and a static archiver ar.
    It also selects all found from the list
    m4, rpm.
    Default lists for other platforms can be found by
    examining the \FCscons\F[]
    source code (see
    \FCSCons/Tool/__init__.py\F[]).

dmd Sets construction variables for D language compiler DMD.
    Sets: $DC [scons(1)], $DCOM [scons(1)], $DDEBUG [scons(1)], $DDEBUGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DDEBUGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $DFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DFLAGS [scons(1)], $DFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DINCPREFIX [scons(1)], $DINCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIB [scons(1)], $DLIBCOM [scons(1)], $DLIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLINK [scons(1)], $DLINKCOM [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DPATH [scons(1)], $DRPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $DRPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DShLibSonameGenerator [scons(1)], $DVERPREFIX [scons(1)], $DVERSIONS [scons(1)], $DVERSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHDC [scons(1)], $SHDCOM [scons(1)], $SHDLIBVERSION [scons(1)], $SHDLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHDLINK [scons(1)], $SHDLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHDLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

docbook
    This tool tries to make working with Docbook in SCons a little easier.
    It provides several toolchains for creating different output formats,
    like HTML or PDF. Contained in the package is
    a distribution of the Docbook XSL stylesheets as of version 1.76.1.
    As long as you don't specify your own stylesheets for customization,
    these official versions are picked as default...which should reduce
    the inevitable setup hassles for you.
    Implicit dependencies to images and XIncludes are detected automatically
    if you meet the HTML requirements. The additional
    stylesheet \FCutils/xmldepend.xsl\F[] by Paul DuBois is used for this purpose.
    Note, that there is no support for XML catalog resolving offered! This tool calls
    the XSLT processors and PDF renderers with the stylesheets you specified, that's it.
    The rest lies in your hands and you still have to know what you're doing when
    resolving names via a catalog.
    For activating the tool "docbook", you have to add its name to the Environment constructor,
    like this
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    \F[].fi
    On its startup, the Docbook tool tries to find a required \FCxsltproc\F[] processor, and
    a PDF renderer, e.g. \FCfop\F[]. So make sure that these are added to your system's environment
    \FCPATH\F[] and can be called directly, without specifying their full path.
    For the most basic processing of Docbook to HTML, you need to have installed

    •   the Python \FClxml\F[] binding to \FClibxml2\F[], or

    •   the direct Python bindings for \FClibxml2/libxslt\F[], or

    •   a standalone XSLT processor, currently detected are \FCxsltproc\F[], \FCsaxon\F[], \FCsaxon-xslt\F[]
        and \FCxalan\F[].
Rendering to PDF requires you to have one of the applications
\FCfop\F[] or \FCxep\F[] installed.
Creating a HTML or PDF document is very simple and straightforward. Say
\FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml('manual.html', 'manual.xml')
env.DocbookPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
\F[].fi
to get both outputs from your XML source \FCmanual.xml\F[]. As a shortcut, you can
give the stem of the filenames alone, like this:
\FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml('manual')
env.DocbookPdf('manual')
\F[].fi
and get the same result. Target and source lists are also supported:
\FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml(['manual.html','reference.html'], ['manual.xml','reference.xml'])
\F[].fi
or even
\FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml(['manual','reference'])
\F[].fi
    Important
    Whenever you leave out the list of sources, you may not specify a file extension! The
    Tool uses the given names as file stems, and adds the suffixes for target and source files
    accordingly.
The rules given above are valid for the Builders \FCDocbookHtml\F[] [scons(1)],
\FCDocbookPdf\F[] [scons(1)], \FCDocbookEpub\F[] [scons(1)], \FCDocbookSlidesPdf\F[] [scons(1)] and \FCDocbookXInclude\F[] [scons(1)]. For the
\FCDocbookMan\F[] [scons(1)] transformation you
can specify a target name, but the actual output names are automatically
set from the \FCrefname\F[] entries in your XML source.
The Builders \FCDocbookHtmlChunked\F[] [scons(1)], \FCDocbookHtmlhelp\F[] [scons(1)] and
\FCDocbookSlidesHtml\F[] [scons(1)] are special, in that:

    1.  they create a large set of files, where the exact names and their number depend
        on the content of the source file, and

    2.  the main target is always named \FCindex.html\F[], i.e. the output name for the
        XSL transformation is not picked up by the stylesheets.
As a result, there is simply no use in specifying a target HTML name.
So the basic syntax for these builders is always:
\FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual')
\F[].fi
If you want to use a specific XSL file, you can set the
additional \FCxsl\F[] parameter to your
Builder call as follows:
\FCenv.DocbookHtml('other.html', 'manual.xml', xsl='html.xsl')
\F[].fi
Since this may get tedious if you always use the same local naming for your customized XSL files,
e.g. \FChtml.xsl\F[] for HTML and \FCpdf.xsl\F[] for PDF output, a set of
variables for setting the default XSL name is provided. These are:
\FCDOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_EPUB
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML
\F[].fi
and you can set them when constructing your environment:
\FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'],
                  DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML='html.xsl',
                  DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF='pdf.xsl')
env.DocbookHtml('manual') # now uses html.xsl
\F[].fi
Sets: $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_EPUB [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_FOP [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_FOPCOM [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_FOPFLAGS [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XMLLINT [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOM [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XMLLINTFLAGS [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XSLTPROC [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOM [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCFLAGS [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCPARAMS [scons(1)].
Uses: $DOCBOOK_FOPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOMSTR [scons(1)], $DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOMSTR [scons(1)].

dvi Attaches the \FCDVI\F[] builder to the
    construction environment.

dvipdf
    Sets construction variables for the dvipdf utility.
    Sets: $DVIPDF [scons(1)], $DVIPDFCOM [scons(1)], $DVIPDFFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $DVIPDFCOMSTR [scons(1)].

dvips
    Sets construction variables for the dvips utility.
    Sets: $DVIPS [scons(1)], $DVIPSFLAGS [scons(1)], $PSCOM [scons(1)], $PSPREFIX [scons(1)], $PSSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $PSCOMSTR [scons(1)].

f03 Set construction variables for generic POSIX Fortran 03 compilers.
    Sets: $F03 [scons(1)], $F03COM [scons(1)], $F03FLAGS [scons(1)], $F03PPCOM [scons(1)], $SHF03 [scons(1)], $SHF03COM [scons(1)], $SHF03FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF03PPCOM [scons(1)], $_F03INCFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $F03COMSTR [scons(1)], $F03PPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF03COMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF03PPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

f08 Set construction variables for generic POSIX Fortran 08 compilers.
    Sets: $F08 [scons(1)], $F08COM [scons(1)], $F08FLAGS [scons(1)], $F08PPCOM [scons(1)], $SHF08 [scons(1)], $SHF08COM [scons(1)], $SHF08FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF08PPCOM [scons(1)], $_F08INCFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $F08COMSTR [scons(1)], $F08PPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF08COMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF08PPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

f77 Set construction variables for generic POSIX Fortran 77 compilers.
    Sets: $F77 [scons(1)], $F77COM [scons(1)], $F77FILESUFFIXES [scons(1)], $F77FLAGS [scons(1)], $F77PPCOM [scons(1)], $F77PPFILESUFFIXES [scons(1)], $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF77 [scons(1)], $SHF77COM [scons(1)], $SHF77FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF77PPCOM [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)], $_F77INCFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $F77COMSTR [scons(1)], $F77PPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $FORTRANCOMSTR [scons(1)], $FORTRANPPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF77COMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF77PPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANPPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

f90 Set construction variables for generic POSIX Fortran 90 compilers.
    Sets: $F90 [scons(1)], $F90COM [scons(1)], $F90FLAGS [scons(1)], $F90PPCOM [scons(1)], $SHF90 [scons(1)], $SHF90COM [scons(1)], $SHF90FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF90PPCOM [scons(1)], $_F90INCFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $F90COMSTR [scons(1)], $F90PPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF90COMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF90PPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

f95 Set construction variables for generic POSIX Fortran 95 compilers.
    Sets: $F95 [scons(1)], $F95COM [scons(1)], $F95FLAGS [scons(1)], $F95PPCOM [scons(1)], $SHF95 [scons(1)], $SHF95COM [scons(1)], $SHF95FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF95PPCOM [scons(1)], $_F95INCFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $F95COMSTR [scons(1)], $F95PPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF95COMSTR [scons(1)], $SHF95PPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

fortran
    Set construction variables for generic POSIX Fortran compilers.
    Sets: $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)].
    Uses: $FORTRANCOMSTR [scons(1)], $FORTRANPPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANPPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

g++ Set construction variables for the gXX C++ compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].

g77 Set construction variables for the g77 Fortran compiler.
    Calls the \FCf77\F[] Tool module
    to set variables.

gas Sets construction variables for the gas assembler.
    Calls the \FCas\F[] module.
    Sets: $AS [scons(1)].

gcc Set construction variables for the gcc C compiler.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)].

gdc Sets construction variables for the D language compiler GDC.
    Sets: $DC [scons(1)], $DCOM [scons(1)], $DDEBUG [scons(1)], $DDEBUGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DDEBUGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $DFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DFLAGS [scons(1)], $DFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DINCPREFIX [scons(1)], $DINCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIB [scons(1)], $DLIBCOM [scons(1)], $DLIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLINK [scons(1)], $DLINKCOM [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DPATH [scons(1)], $DRPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $DRPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DShLibSonameGenerator [scons(1)], $DVERPREFIX [scons(1)], $DVERSIONS [scons(1)], $DVERSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHDC [scons(1)], $SHDCOM [scons(1)], $SHDLIBVERSION [scons(1)], $SHDLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHDLINK [scons(1)], $SHDLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHDLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

gettext
    This is actually a toolset, which supports internationalization and
    localization of software being constructed with SCons. The toolset loads
    following tools:

    •   \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] - to extract internationalized messages from source code to
        \FCPOT\F[] file(s),

    •   \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] - may be optionally used to initialize \FCPO\F[]
        files,

    •   \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] - to update \FCPO\F[] files, that already contain
        translated messages,

    •   \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] - to compile textual \FCPO\F[] file to binary
        installable \FCMO\F[] file.
When you enable \FCgettext\F[], it internally loads all abovementioned tools,
so you're encouraged to see their individual documentation.
Each of the above tools provides its own builder(s) which may be used to
perform particular activities related to software internationalization. You
may be however interested in top-level builder
\FCTranslate\F[] described few paragraphs later.
To use \FCgettext\F[] tools add \FC'gettext'\F[] tool to your
environment:
\FC
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'gettext'] )
\F[].fi

gfortran
    Sets construction variables for the GNU F95/F2003 GNU compiler.
    Sets: $F77 [scons(1)], $F90 [scons(1)], $F95 [scons(1)], $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHF77 [scons(1)], $SHF77FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF90 [scons(1)], $SHF90FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF95 [scons(1)], $SHF95FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)].

gnulink
    Set construction variables for GNU linker/loader.
    Sets: $LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $RPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $RPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $_LDMODULESONAME [scons(1)], $_SHLIBSONAME [scons(1)].

gs  This Tool sets the required construction variables for working with
    the Ghostscript command. It also registers an appropriate Action
    with the PDF Builder (\FCPDF\F[] [scons(1)]), such that the conversion from
    PS/EPS to PDF happens automatically for the TeX/LaTeX toolchain.
    Finally, it adds an explicit Ghostscript Builder (\FCGs\F[] [scons(1)]) to the
    environment.
    Sets: $GS [scons(1)], $GSCOM [scons(1)], $GSFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $GSCOMSTR [scons(1)].

hpc++
    Set construction variables for the compilers aCC on HP/UX systems.

hpcc
    Set construction variables for the
    aCC on HP/UX systems.
    Calls the \FCcXX\F[] tool for additional variables.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)].

hplink
    Sets construction variables for the linker on HP/UX systems.
    Sets: $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

icc Sets construction variables for the
    icc compiler on OS/2 systems.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCCOM [scons(1)], $CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $CXXCOM [scons(1)], $CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $INCPREFIX [scons(1)], $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CCFLAGS [scons(1)], $CFLAGS [scons(1)], $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPINCFLAGS [scons(1)].

icl Sets construction variables for the Intel C/C++ compiler.
    Calls the \FCintelc\F[] Tool module to set its variables.

ifl Sets construction variables for the Intel Fortran compiler.
    Sets: $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)], $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)].

ifort
    Sets construction variables for newer versions
    of the Intel Fortran compiler for Linux.
    Sets: $F77 [scons(1)], $F90 [scons(1)], $F95 [scons(1)], $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHF77 [scons(1)], $SHF77FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF90 [scons(1)], $SHF90FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHF95 [scons(1)], $SHF95FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)].

ilink
    Sets construction variables for the
    ilink linker on OS/2 systems.
    Sets: $LIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

ilink32
    Sets construction variables for the Borland
    ilink32 linker.
    Sets: $LIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

install
    Sets construction variables for file
    and directory installation.
    Sets: $INSTALL [scons(1)], $INSTALLSTR [scons(1)].

intelc
    Sets construction variables for the Intel C/C++ compiler
    (Linux and Windows, version 7 and later).
    Calls the \FCgcc\F[] or \FCmsvc\F[]
    (on Linux and Windows, respectively)
    to set underlying variables.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $CC [scons(1)], $CXX [scons(1)], $INTEL_C_COMPILER_VERSION [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)].

jar Sets construction variables for the jar utility.
    Sets: $JAR [scons(1)], $JARCOM [scons(1)], $JARFLAGS [scons(1)], $JARSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $JARCOMSTR [scons(1)].

javac
    Sets construction variables for the javac compiler.
    Sets: $JAVABOOTCLASSPATH [scons(1)], $JAVAC [scons(1)], $JAVACCOM [scons(1)], $JAVACFLAGS [scons(1)], $JAVACLASSPATH [scons(1)], $JAVACLASSSUFFIX [scons(1)], $JAVAINCLUDES [scons(1)], $JAVASOURCEPATH [scons(1)], $JAVASUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $JAVACCOMSTR [scons(1)].

javah
    Sets construction variables for the javah tool.
    Sets: $JAVACLASSSUFFIX [scons(1)], $JAVAH [scons(1)], $JAVAHCOM [scons(1)], $JAVAHFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $JAVACLASSPATH [scons(1)], $JAVAHCOMSTR [scons(1)].

latex
    Sets construction variables for the latex utility.
    Sets: $LATEX [scons(1)], $LATEXCOM [scons(1)], $LATEXFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LATEXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

ldc Sets construction variables for the D language compiler LDC2.
    Sets: $DC [scons(1)], $DCOM [scons(1)], $DDEBUG [scons(1)], $DDEBUGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DDEBUGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $DFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DFLAGS [scons(1)], $DFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DINCPREFIX [scons(1)], $DINCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIB [scons(1)], $DLIBCOM [scons(1)], $DLIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DLINK [scons(1)], $DLINKCOM [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGPREFIX [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $DLINKFLAGSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DPATH [scons(1)], $DRPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $DRPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $DShLibSonameGenerator [scons(1)], $DVERPREFIX [scons(1)], $DVERSIONS [scons(1)], $DVERSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHDC [scons(1)], $SHDCOM [scons(1)], $SHDLIBVERSION [scons(1)], $SHDLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHDLINK [scons(1)], $SHDLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHDLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

lex Sets construction variables for the lex lexical analyser.
    Sets: $LEX [scons(1)], $LEXCOM [scons(1)], $LEXFLAGS [scons(1)], $LEXUNISTD [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LEXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

link
    Sets construction variables for generic POSIX linkers. This is
    a "smart" linker tool which selects a compiler to complete the linking
    based on the types of source files.
    Sets: $LDMODULE [scons(1)], $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)], $LDMODULEFLAGS [scons(1)], $LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS [scons(1)], $LDMODULEPREFIX [scons(1)], $LDMODULESUFFIX [scons(1)], $LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)], $LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $LIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLINK [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $__LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)], $__SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LDMODULECOMSTR [scons(1)], $LINKCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOMSTR [scons(1)].

linkloc
    Sets construction variables for the
    LinkLoc
    linker for the Phar Lap ETS embedded operating system.
    Sets: $LIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLINK [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LINKCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOMSTR [scons(1)].

m4  Sets construction variables for the m4 macro processor.
    Sets: $M4 [scons(1)], $M4COM [scons(1)], $M4FLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $M4COMSTR [scons(1)].

masm
    Sets construction variables for the Microsoft assembler.
    Sets: $AS [scons(1)], $ASCOM [scons(1)], $ASFLAGS [scons(1)], $ASPPCOM [scons(1)], $ASPPFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ASCOMSTR [scons(1)], $ASPPCOMSTR [scons(1)], $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)], $_CPPINCFLAGS [scons(1)].

midl
    Sets construction variables for the Microsoft IDL compiler.
    Sets: $MIDL [scons(1)], $MIDLCOM [scons(1)], $MIDLFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $MIDLCOMSTR [scons(1)].

mingw
    Sets construction variables for MinGW (Minimal Gnu on Windows).
    Sets: $AS [scons(1)], $CC [scons(1)], $CXX [scons(1)], $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)], $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $OBJSUFFIX [scons(1)], $RC [scons(1)], $RCCOM [scons(1)], $RCFLAGS [scons(1)], $RCINCFLAGS [scons(1)], $RCINCPREFIX [scons(1)], $RCINCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $RCCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOMSTR [scons(1)].

msgfmt
    This scons tool is a part of scons \FCgettext\F[] [scons(1)] toolset. It provides scons
    interface to msgfmt(1) command, which generates binary
    message catalog (\FCMO\F[]) from a textual translation description
    (\FCPO\F[]).
    Sets: $MOSUFFIX [scons(1)], $MSGFMT [scons(1)], $MSGFMTCOM [scons(1)], $MSGFMTCOMSTR [scons(1)], $MSGFMTFLAGS [scons(1)], $POSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LINGUAS_FILE [scons(1)].

msginit
    This scons tool is a part of scons \FCgettext\F[] [scons(1)] toolset. It provides
    scons interface to msginit(1) program, which creates new
    \FCPO\F[] file, initializing the meta information with values from
    user's environment (or options).
    Sets: $MSGINIT [scons(1)], $MSGINITCOM [scons(1)], $MSGINITCOMSTR [scons(1)], $MSGINITFLAGS [scons(1)], $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)], $POCREATE_ALIAS [scons(1)], $POSUFFIX [scons(1)], $POTSUFFIX [scons(1)], $_MSGINITLOCALE [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LINGUAS_FILE [scons(1)], $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)], $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)].

msgmerge
    This scons tool is a part of scons \FCgettext\F[] [scons(1)] toolset. It provides
    scons interface to msgmerge(1) command, which merges two
    Uniform style \FC.po\F[] files together.
    Sets: $MSGMERGE [scons(1)], $MSGMERGECOM [scons(1)], $MSGMERGECOMSTR [scons(1)], $MSGMERGEFLAGS [scons(1)], $POSUFFIX [scons(1)], $POTSUFFIX [scons(1)], $POUPDATE_ALIAS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LINGUAS_FILE [scons(1)], $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)], $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)].

mslib
    Sets construction variables for the Microsoft
    mslib
    library archiver.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $ARCOM [scons(1)], $ARFLAGS [scons(1)], $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ARCOMSTR [scons(1)].

mslink
    Sets construction variables for the Microsoft linker.
    Sets: $LDMODULE [scons(1)], $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)], $LDMODULEFLAGS [scons(1)], $LDMODULEPREFIX [scons(1)], $LDMODULESUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $LINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $REGSVR [scons(1)], $REGSVRCOM [scons(1)], $REGSVRFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHLINK [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)], $WIN32DEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $WIN32DEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WIN32EXPPREFIX [scons(1)], $WIN32EXPSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSEXPPREFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSEXPSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTPREFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTPREFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTSUFFIX [scons(1)], $WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF [scons(1)].
    Uses: $LDMODULECOMSTR [scons(1)], $LINKCOMSTR [scons(1)], $REGSVRCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOMSTR [scons(1)].

mssdk
    Sets variables for Microsoft Platform SDK and/or Windows SDK.
    Note that unlike most other Tool modules,
    mssdk does not set construction variables,
    but sets the environment variables
    in the environment SCons uses to execute
    the Microsoft toolchain:
    \FC%INCLUDE%\F[],
    \FC%LIB%\F[],
    \FC%LIBPATH%\F[] and
    \FC%PATH%\F[].
    Uses: $MSSDK_DIR [scons(1)], $MSSDK_VERSION [scons(1)], $MSVS_VERSION [scons(1)].

msvc
    Sets construction variables for the Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler.
    Sets: $BUILDERS [scons(1)], $CC [scons(1)], $CCCOM [scons(1)], $CCFLAGS [scons(1)], $CCPCHFLAGS [scons(1)], $CCPDBFLAGS [scons(1)], $CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CFLAGS [scons(1)], $CPPDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXCOM [scons(1)], $CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $INCPREFIX [scons(1)], $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $OBJPREFIX [scons(1)], $OBJSUFFIX [scons(1)], $PCHCOM [scons(1)], $PCHPDBFLAGS [scons(1)], $RC [scons(1)], $RCCOM [scons(1)], $RCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCC [scons(1)], $SHCCCOM [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCXX [scons(1)], $SHCXXCOM [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJPREFIX [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CCCOMSTR [scons(1)], $CXXCOMSTR [scons(1)], $PCH [scons(1)], $PCHSTOP [scons(1)], $PDB [scons(1)], $SHCCCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHCXXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

msvs
    Sets construction variables for Microsoft Visual Studio.
    Sets: $MSVSBUILDCOM [scons(1)], $MSVSCLEANCOM [scons(1)], $MSVSENCODING [scons(1)], $MSVSPROJECTCOM [scons(1)], $MSVSREBUILDCOM [scons(1)], $MSVSSCONS [scons(1)], $MSVSSCONSCOM [scons(1)], $MSVSSCONSCRIPT [scons(1)], $MSVSSCONSFLAGS [scons(1)], $MSVSSOLUTIONCOM [scons(1)].

mwcc
    Sets construction variables for the Metrowerks CodeWarrior compiler.
    Sets: $CC [scons(1)], $CCCOM [scons(1)], $CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFPREFIX [scons(1)], $CPPDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)], $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXCOM [scons(1)], $CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $INCPREFIX [scons(1)], $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $MWCW_VERSION [scons(1)], $MWCW_VERSIONS [scons(1)], $SHCC [scons(1)], $SHCCCOM [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCXX [scons(1)], $SHCXXCOM [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $CCCOMSTR [scons(1)], $CXXCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHCCCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHCXXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

mwld
    Sets construction variables for the Metrowerks CodeWarrior linker.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $ARCOM [scons(1)], $LIBDIRPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBLINKSUFFIX [scons(1)], $LINK [scons(1)], $LINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINK [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

nasm
    Sets construction variables for the
    nasm Netwide Assembler.
    Sets: $AS [scons(1)], $ASCOM [scons(1)], $ASFLAGS [scons(1)], $ASPPCOM [scons(1)], $ASPPFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ASCOMSTR [scons(1)], $ASPPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

Packaging
    Sets construction variables for the \FCPackage\F[] Builder.

packaging
    A framework for building binary and source packages.

pdf Sets construction variables for the Portable Document Format builder.
    Sets: $PDFPREFIX [scons(1)], $PDFSUFFIX [scons(1)].

pdflatex
    Sets construction variables for the pdflatex utility.
    Sets: $LATEXRETRIES [scons(1)], $PDFLATEX [scons(1)], $PDFLATEXCOM [scons(1)], $PDFLATEXFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $PDFLATEXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

pdftex
    Sets construction variables for the pdftex utility.
    Sets: $LATEXRETRIES [scons(1)], $PDFLATEX [scons(1)], $PDFLATEXCOM [scons(1)], $PDFLATEXFLAGS [scons(1)], $PDFTEX [scons(1)], $PDFTEXCOM [scons(1)], $PDFTEXFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $PDFLATEXCOMSTR [scons(1)], $PDFTEXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

qt  Sets construction variables for building Qt applications.
    Sets: $QTDIR [scons(1)], $QT_AUTOSCAN [scons(1)], $QT_BINPATH [scons(1)], $QT_CPPPATH [scons(1)], $QT_LIB [scons(1)], $QT_LIBPATH [scons(1)], $QT_MOC [scons(1)], $QT_MOCCXXPREFIX [scons(1)], $QT_MOCCXXSUFFIX [scons(1)], $QT_MOCFROMCXXCOM [scons(1)], $QT_MOCFROMCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $QT_MOCFROMHCOM [scons(1)], $QT_MOCFROMHFLAGS [scons(1)], $QT_MOCHPREFIX [scons(1)], $QT_MOCHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $QT_UIC [scons(1)], $QT_UICCOM [scons(1)], $QT_UICDECLFLAGS [scons(1)], $QT_UICDECLPREFIX [scons(1)], $QT_UICDECLSUFFIX [scons(1)], $QT_UICIMPLFLAGS [scons(1)], $QT_UICIMPLPREFIX [scons(1)], $QT_UICIMPLSUFFIX [scons(1)], $QT_UISUFFIX [scons(1)].

rmic
    Sets construction variables for the rmic utility.
    Sets: $JAVACLASSSUFFIX [scons(1)], $RMIC [scons(1)], $RMICCOM [scons(1)], $RMICFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $RMICCOMSTR [scons(1)].

rpcgen
    Sets construction variables for building with RPCGEN.
    Sets: $RPCGEN [scons(1)], $RPCGENCLIENTFLAGS [scons(1)], $RPCGENFLAGS [scons(1)], $RPCGENHEADERFLAGS [scons(1)], $RPCGENSERVICEFLAGS [scons(1)], $RPCGENXDRFLAGS [scons(1)].

sgiar
    Sets construction variables for the SGI library archiver.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $ARCOMSTR [scons(1)], $ARFLAGS [scons(1)], $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLINK [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ARCOMSTR [scons(1)], $SHLINKCOMSTR [scons(1)].

sgic++
    Sets construction variables for the SGI C++ compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHCXX [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].

sgicc
    Sets construction variables for the SGI C compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].

sgilink
    Sets construction variables for the SGI linker.
    Sets: $LINK [scons(1)], $RPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $RPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

sunar
    Sets construction variables for the Sun library archiver.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $ARCOM [scons(1)], $ARFLAGS [scons(1)], $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ARCOMSTR [scons(1)].

sunc++
    Sets construction variables for the Sun C++ compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $CXXVERSION [scons(1)], $SHCXX [scons(1)], $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJPREFIX [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].

suncc
    Sets construction variables for the Sun C compiler.
    Sets: $CXX [scons(1)], $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)], $SHOBJPREFIX [scons(1)], $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)].

sunf77
    Set construction variables for the Sun f77 Fortran compiler.
    Sets: $F77 [scons(1)], $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHF77 [scons(1)], $SHF77FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)].

sunf90
    Set construction variables for the Sun f90 Fortran compiler.
    Sets: $F90 [scons(1)], $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHF90 [scons(1)], $SHF90FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)].

sunf95
    Set construction variables for the Sun f95 Fortran compiler.
    Sets: $F95 [scons(1)], $FORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHF95 [scons(1)], $SHF95FLAGS [scons(1)], $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)], $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)].

sunlink
    Sets construction variables for the Sun linker.
    Sets: $RPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $RPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)].

swig
    Sets construction variables for the SWIG interface generator.
    Sets: $SWIG [scons(1)], $SWIGCFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $SWIGCOM [scons(1)], $SWIGCXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $SWIGDIRECTORSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SWIGFLAGS [scons(1)], $SWIGINCPREFIX [scons(1)], $SWIGINCSUFFIX [scons(1)], $SWIGPATH [scons(1)], $SWIGVERSION [scons(1)], $_SWIGINCFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $SWIGCOMSTR [scons(1)].

tar Sets construction variables for the tar archiver.
    Sets: $TAR [scons(1)], $TARCOM [scons(1)], $TARFLAGS [scons(1)], $TARSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $TARCOMSTR [scons(1)].

tex Sets construction variables for the TeX formatter and typesetter.
    Sets: $BIBTEX [scons(1)], $BIBTEXCOM [scons(1)], $BIBTEXFLAGS [scons(1)], $LATEX [scons(1)], $LATEXCOM [scons(1)], $LATEXFLAGS [scons(1)], $MAKEINDEX [scons(1)], $MAKEINDEXCOM [scons(1)], $MAKEINDEXFLAGS [scons(1)], $TEX [scons(1)], $TEXCOM [scons(1)], $TEXFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $BIBTEXCOMSTR [scons(1)], $LATEXCOMSTR [scons(1)], $MAKEINDEXCOMSTR [scons(1)], $TEXCOMSTR [scons(1)].

textfile
    Set construction variables for the \FCTextfile\F[] and \FCSubstfile\F[] builders.
    Sets: $LINESEPARATOR [scons(1)], $SUBSTFILEPREFIX [scons(1)], $SUBSTFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $TEXTFILEPREFIX [scons(1)], $TEXTFILESUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $SUBST_DICT [scons(1)].

tlib
    Sets construction variables for the Borlan
    tib library archiver.
    Sets: $AR [scons(1)], $ARCOM [scons(1)], $ARFLAGS [scons(1)], $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)], $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ARCOMSTR [scons(1)].

xgettext
    This scons tool is a part of scons \FCgettext\F[] [scons(1)] toolset. It provides
    scons interface to xgettext(1)
    program, which extracts internationalized messages from source code. The tool
    provides \FCPOTUpdate\F[] builder to make \FCPO\F[]
    Template files.
    Sets: $POTSUFFIX [scons(1)], $POTUPDATE_ALIAS [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTCOM [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTCOMSTR [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTFLAGS [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTFROM [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTFROMPREFIX [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTFROMSUFFIX [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTPATH [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $XGETTEXTPATHSUFFIX [scons(1)], $_XGETTEXTDOMAIN [scons(1)], $_XGETTEXTFROMFLAGS [scons(1)], $_XGETTEXTPATHFLAGS [scons(1)].
    Uses: $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)].

yacc
    Sets construction variables for the yacc parse generator.
    Sets: $YACC [scons(1)], $YACCCOM [scons(1)], $YACCFLAGS [scons(1)], $YACCHFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $YACCHXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)], $YACCVCGFILESUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $YACCCOMSTR [scons(1)].

zip Sets construction variables for the zip archiver.
    Sets: $ZIP [scons(1)], $ZIPCOM [scons(1)], $ZIPCOMPRESSION [scons(1)], $ZIPFLAGS [scons(1)], $ZIPSUFFIX [scons(1)].
    Uses: $ZIPCOMSTR [scons(1)].

  BUILDER METHODS
You tell scons what to build by calling Builders, functions which know to take a particular action when given files of a particular type to produce a particular result type. scons defines a number of builders, and you can also write your own. Builders are attached to a \FCconstruction environment\F[] as methods, and the available builder methods are listed as key-value pairs in the BUILDERS attribute of the \FCconstruction environment\F[]. The available builders can be displayed like this for debugging purposes:

print("Builders:", list(env['BUILDERS']))

Builder methods always take two arguments: target (a target or a list of targets to be built) and source (a source or list of sources to be used as input when building), although in some circumstances, the target argument can actually be omitted (see below). Builder methods also take a variety of keyword arguments, described below.

Because long lists of file names can lead to a lot of quoting, scons supplies a \FCSplit\F[] global function and a same-named environment method that split a single string into a list, separated on strings of white-space characters. (These are similar to the Python string \FCsplit\F[] method, but work even if the input isn't a string.)

The target and source arguments to a builder method can be specified either as positional arguments, in which case the target comes first, or as keyword arguments, using \FCtarget=\F[] and \FCsource=\F[]. The following are equivalent examples of calling the \FCProgram\F[] builder method:

env.Program('bar', ['bar.c', 'foo.c'])
env.Program('bar', Split('bar.c foo.c'))
env.Program('bar', env.Split('bar.c foo.c'))
env.Program(source=['bar.c', 'foo.c'], target='bar')
env.Program(target='bar', source=Split('bar.c foo.c'))
env.Program(target='bar', source=env.Split('bar.c foo.c'))
env.Program('bar', source='bar.c foo.c'.split())

Python follows the POSIX pathname convention for path strings: if a string begins with the operating system pathname separator (on Windows both the slash and backslash separator work, and any leading drive specifier is ignored for the determination) it is considered an absolute path, otherwise it is a relative path. If the path string contains no separator characters, it is searched for as a file in the current directory. If it contains separator characters, the search follows down from the starting point, which is the top of the directory tree for an absolute path and the current directory for a relative path.

scons recognizes a third way to specify path strings: if the string begins with the # character it is top-relative - it works like a relative path but the search follows down from the directory containing the top-level SConstruct rather than from the current directory (the # is allowed to be followed by a pathname separator, which is ignored if found in that position). Top-relative paths only work in places where \FCscons\F[] will interpret the path (see some examples below). To be used in other contexts the string will need to be converted to a relative or absolute path first.

Target and source pathnames can be absolute, relative, or top-relative. Relative pathnames are searched considering the directory of the SConscript file currently being processed as the "current directory".

Examples:

\FC
# The comments describing the targets that will be built
# assume these calls are in a SConscript file in the
# a subdirectory named "subdir".
# Builds the program "subdir/foo" from "subdir/foo.c":
env.Program('foo', 'foo.c')
# Builds the program "/tmp/bar" from "subdir/bar.c":
env.Program('/tmp/bar', 'bar.c')
# An initial '#' or '#/' are equivalent; the following
# calls build the programs "foo" and "bar" (in the
# top-level SConstruct directory) from "subdir/foo.c" and
# "subdir/bar.c", respectively:
env.Program('#foo', 'foo.c')
env.Program('#/bar', 'bar.c')
# Builds the program "other/foo" (relative to the top-level
# SConstruct directory) from "subdir/foo.c":
env.Program('#other/foo', 'foo.c')
\F[].fi

When the target shares the same base name
as the source and only the suffix varies,
and if the builder method has a suffix defined for the target file type,
then the target argument may be omitted completely,
and
scons
will deduce the target file name from
the source file name.
The following examples all build the
executable program
bar
(on POSIX systems)
or
bar.exe
(on Windows systems)
from the \FCbar.c\F[] source file:

env.Program(target='bar', source='bar.c')
env.Program('bar', source='bar.c')
env.Program(source='bar.c')
env.Program('bar.c')

As a convenience, a srcdir keyword argument may be specified when calling a Builder. When specified, all source file strings that are not absolute paths or top-relative paths will be interpreted relative to the specified srcdir. The following example will build the \FCbuild/prog\F[] (or \FCbuild/prog.exe\F[] on Windows) program from the files \FCsrc/f1.c\F[] and \FCsrc/f2.c\F[]:

env.Program('build/prog', ['f1.c', 'f2.c'], srcdir='src')

It is possible to override (replace or add) construction variables when calling a builder method by passing them as keyword arguments. These overrides will only be in effect when building that target, and will not affect other parts of the build. For example, if you want to specify some libraries needed by just one program:

env.Program('hello', 'hello.c', LIBS=['gl', 'glut'])

or generate a shared library with a non-standard suffix:

env.SharedLibrary('word', 'word.cpp',
                  SHLIBSUFFIX='.ocx',
                  LIBSUFFIXES=['.ocx'])

(Note that both the $SHLIBSUFFIX and $LIBSUFFIXES variables must be set if you want SCons to search automatically for dependencies on the non-standard library names; see the descriptions of these variables, below, for more information.)

It is also possible to use the parse_flags keyword argument in an override, to merge command-line style arguments into the appropriate construction variables (see \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[] [scons(1)]).

env = Program('hello', 'hello.c', parse_flags='-Iinclude -DEBUG -lm')

This example adds 'include' to CPPPATH, 'EBUG' to CPPDEFINES, and 'm' to LIBS.

Although the builder methods defined by scons are, in fact, methods of a construction environment object, they may also be called without an explicit environment:

Program('hello', 'hello.c')
SharedLibrary('word', 'word.cpp')

In this case, the methods are called internally using a default construction environment that consists of the tools and values that scons has determined are appropriate for the local system.

Builder methods that can be called without an explicit environment may be called from custom Python modules that you import into an SConscript file by adding the following to the Python module:

from SCons.Script import *

All builder methods return a list-like object containing Nodes that will be built. A Node is an internal SCons object which represents build targets or sources.

The returned Node-list object can be passed to other builder methods as source(s) or passed to any SCons function or method where a filename would normally be accepted. For example, if it were necessary to add a specific preprocessor define when compiling one specific object file:

bar_obj_list = env.StaticObject('bar.c', CPPDEFINES='-DBAR')
env.Program(source = ['foo.c', bar_obj_list, 'main.c'])

Using a Node in this way makes for a more portable build by avoiding having to specify a platform-specific object suffix when calling the \FCProgram\F[] builder method.

Note that builder calls will automatically "flatten" the source and target file lists, so it's all right to have the \FCbar_obj_list\F[] returned by the \FCStaticObject\F[] call in the middle of the source file list. If you need to manipulate a list of lists returned by builders directly using Python, you can either build the list by hand:

foo = Object('foo.c')
bar = Object('bar.c')
objects = ['begin.o'] + foo + ['middle.o'] + bar + ['end.o']
for object in objects:
    print(str(object))

Or you can use the \FCFlatten\F[] function supplied by scons to create a list containing just the Nodes, which may be more convenient:

foo = Object('foo.c')
bar = Object('bar.c')
objects = Flatten(['begin.o', foo, 'middle.o', bar, 'end.o'])
for object in objects:
    print(str(object))

Note also that because builder calls return a list-like object, not an actual Python list, you should not use the Python add operator (\FC+\F[] or \FC+=\F[]) to append builder results to a Python list. Because the list and the object are different types, Python will not update the original list in place, but will instead create a new Node-list object containing the concatenation of the list elements and the builder results. This will cause problems for any other Python variables in your SCons configuration that still hold on to a reference to the original list. Instead, use the Python list \FCextend\F[] method to make sure the list is updated in-place. Example:

object_files = []
# Do NOT use += as follows:
#
#    object_files += Object('bar.c')
#
# It will not update the object_files list in place.
#
# Instead, use the list extend method:
object_files.extend(Object('bar.c'))

The path name for a Node's file may be used by passing the Node to Python's builtin \FCstr\F[] function:

bar_obj_list = env.StaticObject('bar.c', CPPDEFINES='-DBAR')
print("The path to bar_obj is:", str(bar_obj_list[0]))

Note again that because the Builder call returns a list, we have to access the first element in the list (\FC(bar_obj_list[0])\F[]) to get at the Node that actually represents the object file.

Builder calls support a chdir keyword argument that specifies that the Builder's action(s) should be executed after changing directory. If the chdir argument is a string or a directory Node, scons will change to the specified directory. If the chdir is not a string or Node and is non-zero, then scons will change to the target file's directory.

# scons will change to the "sub" subdirectory
# before executing the "cp" command.
env.Command('sub/dir/foo.out', 'sub/dir/foo.in',
            "cp dir/foo.in dir/foo.out",
            chdir='sub')
# Because chdir is not a string, scons will change to the
# target's directory ("sub/dir") before executing the
# "cp" command.
env.Command('sub/dir/foo.out', 'sub/dir/foo.in',
            "cp foo.in foo.out",
            chdir=1)

Note that scons will not automatically modify its expansion of construction variables like $TARGET and $SOURCE when using the chdir keyword argument--that is, the expanded file names will still be relative to the top-level SConstruct directory, and consequently incorrect relative to the chdir directory. If you use the chdir keyword argument, you will typically need to supply a different command line using expansions like ${TARGET.file} and ${SOURCE.file} to use just the filename portion of the targets and source.

scons predefined the following builder methods. Depending on the setup of a particular \FCconstruction environment\F[] and on the type and software installation status of the underlying system, not all builders may be available to that \FCconstruction environment\F[].

\FCCFile()\F[] , \FCenv.CFile()\F[]
    Builds a C source file given a lex (\FC.l\F[]) or yacc (\FC.y\F[]) input file. The suffix specified by the $CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable (\FC.c\F[] by default) is automatically added to the target if it is not already present. Example:
    \FC
    # builds foo.c
    env.CFile(target = 'foo.c', source = 'foo.l')
    # builds bar.c
    env.CFile(target = 'bar', source = 'bar.y')
    \F[].fi

\FCCommand()\F[] , \FCenv.Command()\F[]
    The \FCCommand\F[] "Builder" is actually
    a function that looks like a Builder,
    but takes a required third argument, which is the
    action to take to construct the target
    from the source, used for "one-off" builds
    where a full builder is not needed.
    Thus it does not follow the builder
    calling rules described at the start of this section.
    See instead the \FCCommand\F[] [scons(1)] function description
    for the calling syntax and details.

\FCCXXFile()\F[] , \FCenv.CXXFile()\F[]
    Builds a C++ source file given a lex (\FC.ll\F[])
    or yacc (\FC.yy\F[])
    input file.
    The suffix specified by the $CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable
    (\FC.cc\F[] by default)
    is automatically added to the target
    if it is not already present.
    Example:
    \FC
    # builds foo.cc
    env.CXXFile(target = 'foo.cc', source = 'foo.ll')
    # builds bar.cc
    env.CXXFile(target = 'bar', source = 'bar.yy')
    \F[].fi

\FCDocbookEpub()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookEpub()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for EPUB output.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookEpub('manual.epub', 'manual.xml')
    \F[].fi
    or simply
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookEpub('manual')
    \F[].fi

\FCDocbookHtml()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookHtml()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for HTML output.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtml('manual.html', 'manual.xml')
    \F[].fi
    or simply
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtml('manual')
    \F[].fi

\FCDocbookHtmlChunked()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookHtmlChunked()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for chunked HTML output.
    It supports the \FCbase.dir\F[] parameter. The
    \FCchunkfast.xsl\F[] file (requires "EXSLT") is used as the
    default stylesheet. Basic syntax:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtmlChunked('manual')
    \F[].fi
    where \FCmanual.xml\F[] is the input file.
    If you use the \FCroot.filename\F[]
    parameter in your own stylesheets you have to specify the new target name.
    This ensures that the dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via ‘\FCscons -c\F[]’:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtmlChunked('mymanual.html', 'manual', xsl='htmlchunk.xsl')
    \F[].fi
    Some basic support for the \FCbase.dir\F[] is provided. You
    can add the \FCbase_dir\F[] keyword to your Builder
    call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the created filenames:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtmlChunked('manual', xsl='htmlchunk.xsl', base_dir='output/')
    \F[].fi
    Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
    your files get renamed only!

\FCDocbookHtmlhelp()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookHtmlhelp()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for HTMLHELP output.
    Its basic syntax is:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual')
    \F[].fi
    where \FCmanual.xml\F[] is the input file.
    If you use the \FCroot.filename\F[]
    parameter in your own stylesheets you have to specify the new target name.
    This ensures that the dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via ‘\FCscons -c\F[]’:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtmlhelp('mymanual.html', 'manual', xsl='htmlhelp.xsl')
    \F[].fi
    Some basic support for the \FCbase.dir\F[] parameter
    is provided. You can add the \FCbase_dir\F[] keyword to
    your Builder call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the
    created filenames:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual', xsl='htmlhelp.xsl', base_dir='output/')
    \F[].fi
    Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
    your files get renamed only!

\FCDocbookMan()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookMan()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for Man page output.
    Its basic syntax is:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookMan('manual')
    \F[].fi
    where \FCmanual.xml\F[] is the input file. Note, that
    you can specify a target name, but the actual output names are automatically
    set from the \FCrefname\F[] entries in your XML source.

\FCDocbookPdf()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookPdf()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for PDF output.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
    \F[].fi
    or simply
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookPdf('manual')
    \F[].fi

\FCDocbookSlidesHtml()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookSlidesHtml()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for HTML slides output.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookSlidesHtml('manual')
    \F[].fi
    If you use the \FCtitlefoil.html\F[] parameter in
    your own stylesheets you have to give the new target name. This ensures
    that the dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via
    ‘\FCscons -c\F[]’:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookSlidesHtml('mymanual.html','manual', xsl='slideshtml.xsl')
    \F[].fi
    Some basic support for the \FCbase.dir\F[] parameter
    is provided. You
    can add the \FCbase_dir\F[] keyword to your Builder
    call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the created filenames:
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookSlidesHtml('manual', xsl='slideshtml.xsl', base_dir='output/')
    \F[].fi
    Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
    your files get renamed only!

\FCDocbookSlidesPdf()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookSlidesPdf()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for PDF slides output.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookSlidesPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
    \F[].fi
    or simply
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookSlidesPdf('manual')
    \F[].fi

\FCDocbookXInclude()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookXInclude()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, for resolving XIncludes in a separate processing step.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookXInclude('manual_xincluded.xml', 'manual.xml')
    \F[].fi

\FCDocbookXslt()\F[] , \FCenv.DocbookXslt()\F[]
    A pseudo-Builder, applying a given XSL transformation to the input file.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
    env.DocbookXslt('manual_transformed.xml', 'manual.xml', xsl='transform.xslt')
    \F[].fi
    Note, that this builder requires the \FCxsl\F[] parameter
    to be set.

\FCDVI()\F[] , \FCenv.DVI()\F[]
    Builds a \FC.dvi\F[] file
    from a \FC.tex\F[],
    \FC.ltx\F[] or \FC.latex\F[] input file.
    If the source file suffix is \FC.tex\F[],
    \FCscons\F[]
    will examine the contents of the file;
    if the string
    \FC\documentclass\F[]
    or
    \FC\documentstyle\F[]
    is found, the file is assumed to be a LaTeX file and
    the target is built by invoking the $LATEXCOM [scons(1)] command line;
    otherwise, the $TEXCOM [scons(1)] command line is used.
    If the file is a LaTeX file,
    the
    \FCDVI\F[]
    builder method will also examine the contents
    of the
    \FC.aux\F[]
    file and invoke the $BIBTEX [scons(1)] command line
    if the string
    \FCbibdata\F[]
    is found,
    start $MAKEINDEX [scons(1)] to generate an index if a
    \FC.ind\F[]
    file is found
    and will examine the contents
    \FC.log\F[]
    file and re-run the $LATEXCOM [scons(1)] command
    if the log file says it is necessary.
    The suffix \FC.dvi\F[]
    (hard-coded within TeX itself)
    is automatically added to the target
    if it is not already present.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # builds from aaa.tex
    env.DVI(target = 'aaa.dvi', source = 'aaa.tex')
    # builds bbb.dvi
    env.DVI(target = 'bbb', source = 'bbb.ltx')
    # builds from ccc.latex
    env.DVI(target = 'ccc.dvi', source = 'ccc.latex')
    \F[].fi

\FCGs()\F[] , \FCenv.Gs()\F[]
    A Builder for explicitly calling the \FCgs\F[] executable.
    Depending on the underlying OS, the different names \FCgs\F[],
    \FCgsos2\F[] and \FCgswin32c\F[]
    are tried.
    \FCenv = Environment(tools=['gs'])
    env.Gs('cover.jpg','scons-scons.pdf',
           GSFLAGS='-dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=jpeg -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -q')
           )
    \F[].fi

\FCInstall()\F[] , \FCenv.Install()\F[]
    Installs one or more source files or directories
    in the specified target,
    which must be a directory.
    The names of the specified source files or directories
    remain the same within the destination directory. The
    sources may be given as a string or as a node returned by
    a builder.
    \FC
    env.Install('/usr/local/bin', source = ['foo', 'bar'])
    \F[].fi
    If the \FC--install-sandbox\F[] command line
    option is given, the target directory will be prefixed
    by the directory path specified.
    This is useful to test installs without installing to
    a "live" location in the system.
    See also \FCFindInstalledFiles\F[].
    For more thoughts on installation, see the User Guide
    (particularly the section on Command-Line Targets
    and the chapters on Installing Files and on Alias Targets).

\FCInstallAs()\F[] , \FCenv.InstallAs()\F[]
    Installs one or more source files or directories
    to specific names,
    allowing changing a file or directory name
    as part of the installation.
    It is an error if the
    target
    and
    source
    arguments list different numbers of files or directories.
    \FC
    env.InstallAs(target = '/usr/local/bin/foo',
                  source = 'foo_debug')
    env.InstallAs(target = ['../lib/libfoo.a', '../lib/libbar.a'],
                  source = ['libFOO.a', 'libBAR.a'])
    \F[].fi

\FCInstallVersionedLib()\F[] , \FCenv.InstallVersionedLib()\F[]
    Installs a versioned shared library. The symlinks appropriate to the
    architecture will be generated based on symlinks of the source library.
    \FC
    env.InstallVersionedLib(target = '/usr/local/bin/foo',
                  source = 'libxyz.1.5.2.so')
    \F[].fi

\FCJar()\F[] , \FCenv.Jar()\F[]
    Builds a Java archive (\FC.jar\F[]) file
    from the specified list of sources.
    Any directories in the source list
    will be searched for \FC.class\F[] files).
    Any \FC.java\F[] files in the source list
    will be compiled to \FC.class\F[] files
    by calling the \FCJava\F[] [scons(1)] Builder.
    If the $JARCHDIR [scons(1)] value is set, the
    jar
    command will change to the specified directory using the
    \FC-C\F[]
    option.
    If $JARCHDIR is not set explicitly,
    SCons will use the top of any subdirectory tree
    in which Java \FC.class\F[]
    were built by the \FCJava\F[] [scons(1)] Builder.
    If the contents any of the source files begin with the string
    \FCManifest-Version\F[],
    the file is assumed to be a manifest
    and is passed to the
    jar
    command with the
    \FCm\F[]
    option set.
    \FC
    env.Jar(target = 'foo.jar', source = 'classes')
    env.Jar(target = 'bar.jar',
            source = ['bar1.java', 'bar2.java'])
    \F[].fi

\FCJava()\F[] , \FCenv.Java()\F[]
    Builds one or more Java class files.
    The sources may be any combination of explicit
    \FC.java\F[]
    files,
    or directory trees which will be scanned
    for \FC.java\F[] files.
    SCons will parse each source \FC.java\F[] file
    to find the classes
    (including inner classes)
    defined within that file,
    and from that figure out the
    target \FC.class\F[] files that will be created.
    The class files will be placed underneath
    the specified target directory.
    SCons will also search each Java file
    for the Java package name,
    which it assumes can be found on a line
    beginning with the string
    \FCpackage\F[]
    in the first column;
    the resulting \FC.class\F[] files
    will be placed in a directory reflecting
    the specified package name.
    For example,
    the file
    \FCFoo.java\F[]
    defining a single public
    \FCFoo\F[]
    class and
    containing a package name of
    \FCsub.dir\F[]
    will generate a corresponding
    \FCsub/dir/Foo.class\F[]
    class file.
    Examples:
    \FC
                    env.Java(target = 'classes', source = 'src')
                    env.Java(target = 'classes', source = ['src1', 'src2'])
                    env.Java(target = 'classes', source = ['File1.java', 'File2.java'])
                \F[]
    Java source files can use the native encoding for the underlying OS. Since SCons compiles in simple ASCII mode by default, the compiler will generate warnings about unmappable characters, which may lead to errors as the file is processed further. In this case, the user must specify the \FCLANG\F[] environment variable to tell the compiler what encoding is used. For portibility, it's best if the encoding is hard-coded so that the compile will work if it is done on a system with a different encoding.
    \FC
                    env = Environment()
                    env['ENV']['LANG'] = 'en_GB.UTF-8'
                \F[]

\FCJavaH()\F[] , \FCenv.JavaH()\F[]
    Builds C header and source files for implementing Java native methods. The target can be either a directory in which the header files will be written, or a header file name which will contain all of the definitions. The source can be the names of \FC.class\F[] files, the names of \FC.java\F[] files to be compiled into \FC.class\F[] files by calling the \FCJava\F[] [scons(1)] builder method, or the objects returned from the \FCJava\F[] builder method. If the construction variable $JAVACLASSDIR [scons(1)] is set, either in the environment or in the call to the \FCJavaH\F[] builder method itself, then the value of the variable will be stripped from the beginning of any \FC.class\F[] file names. Examples:
    \FC
    # builds java_native.h
    classes = env.Java(target = 'classdir', source = 'src')
    env.JavaH(target = 'java_native.h', source = classes)
    # builds include/package_foo.h and include/package_bar.h
    env.JavaH(target = 'include',
              source = ['package/foo.class', 'package/bar.class'])
    # builds export/foo.h and export/bar.h
    env.JavaH(target = 'export',
              source = ['classes/foo.class', 'classes/bar.class'],
              JAVACLASSDIR = 'classes')
    \F[].fi

\FCLibrary()\F[] , \FCenv.Library()\F[]
    A synonym for the
    \FCStaticLibrary\F[]
    builder method.

\FCLoadableModule()\F[] , \FCenv.LoadableModule()\F[]
    On most systems,
    this is the same as
    \FCSharedLibrary\F[].
    On Mac OS X (Darwin) platforms,
    this creates a loadable module bundle.

\FCM4()\F[] , \FCenv.M4()\F[]
    Builds an output file from an M4 input file.
    This uses a default $M4FLAGS [scons(1)] value of
    \FC-E\F[],
    which considers all warnings to be fatal
    and stops on the first warning
    when using the GNU version of m4.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.M4(target = 'foo.c', source = 'foo.c.m4')
    \F[].fi

\FCMoc()\F[] , \FCenv.Moc()\F[]
    Builds an output file from a moc input file. Moc input files are either
    header files or cxx files. This builder is only available after using the
    tool 'qt'. See the $QTDIR [scons(1)] variable for more information.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Moc('foo.h') # generates moc_foo.cc
    env.Moc('foo.cpp') # generates foo.moc
    \F[].fi

\FCMOFiles()\F[] , \FCenv.MOFiles()\F[]
    This builder belongs to \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] tool. The builder compiles
    \FCPO\F[] files to \FCMO\F[] files.
    Example 1.
    Create \FCpl.mo\F[] and \FCen.mo\F[] by compiling
    \FCpl.po\F[] and \FCen.po\F[]:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.MOFiles(['pl', 'en'])
    \F[].fi
    Example 2.
    Compile files for languages defined in \FCLINGUAS\F[] file:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.MOFiles(LINGUAS_FILE = 1)
    \F[].fi
    Example 3.
    Create \FCpl.mo\F[] and \FCen.mo\F[] by compiling
    \FCpl.po\F[] and \FCen.po\F[] plus files for
    languages defined in \FCLINGUAS\F[] file:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.MOFiles(['pl', 'en'], LINGUAS_FILE = 1)
    \F[].fi
    Example 4.
    Compile files for languages defined in \FCLINGUAS\F[] file
    (another version):
    \FC
      # ...
      env['LINGUAS_FILE'] = 1
      env.MOFiles()
    \F[].fi

\FCMSVSProject()\F[] , \FCenv.MSVSProject()\F[]
    Builds a Microsoft Visual Studio project file, and by default
    builds a solution file as well.
    This builds a Visual Studio project file, based on the
    version of Visual Studio that is configured (either the
    latest installed version, or the version specified by
    $MSVS_VERSION [scons(1)] in the Environment constructor). For
    Visual Studio 6, it will generate a \FC.dsp\F[]
    file. For Visual Studio 7, 8, and 9, it will
    generate a \FC.vcproj\F[] file. For Visual
    Studio 10 and later, it will generate a
    \FC.vcxproj\F[] file.
    By default, this also generates a solution file for the
    specified project, a \FC.dsw\F[] file for
    Visual Studio 6 or a \FC.sln\F[] file for
    Visual Studio 7 and later. This behavior may be disabled by
    specifying \FCauto_build_solution=0\F[] when you
    call \FCMSVSProject\F[], in which case you presumably want to
    build the solution file(s) by calling the \FCMSVSSolution\F[]
    Builder (see below).
    The \FCMSVSProject\F[] builder takes several lists of filenames
    to be placed into the project file. These are currently
    limited to \FCsrcs\F[], \FCincs\F[],
    \FClocalincs\F[], \FCresources\F[], and
    \FCmisc\F[]. These are pretty self-explanatory,
    but it should be noted that these lists are added to the
    $SOURCES [scons(1)] construction variable as strings, NOT as
    SCons File Nodes. This is because they represent file names
    to be added to the project file, not the source files used
    to build the project file.
    The above filename lists are all optional, although at least
    one must be specified for the resulting project file to
    be non-empty.
    In addition to the above lists of values, the following values
    may be specified:

    target
        The name of the target \FC.dsp\F[]
        or \FC.vcproj\F[] file.
        The correct suffix for the version of Visual Studio
        must be used, but the $MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX [scons(1)]
        construction variable will be defined to the correct
        value (see example below).

    variant
        The name of this particular variant. For Visual Studio 7
        projects, this can also be a list of variant names. These
        are typically things like "Debug" or "Release", but
        really can be anything you want. For Visual Studio
        7 projects, they may also specify a target platform
        separated from the variant name by a \FC|\F[]
        (vertical pipe) character: \FCDebug|Xbox\F[].
        The default target platform is Win32. Multiple calls
        to \FCMSVSProject\F[] with different variants are allowed;
        all variants will be added to the project file with
        their appropriate build targets and sources.

    cmdargs
        Additional command line arguments
        for the different variants. The number of
        \FCcmdargs\F[] entries must match the number
        of \FCvariant\F[] entries, or be empty (not
        specified). If you give only one, it will automatically
        be propagated to all variants.

    cppdefines
        Preprocessor definitions for the different variants.
        The number of \FCcppdefines\F[] entries
        must match the number of \FCvariant\F[]
        entries, or be empty (not specified). If you give
        only one, it will automatically be propagated to all
        variants. If you don't give this parameter, SCons
        will use the invoking environment's
        \FCCPPDEFINES\F[] entry for all variants.

    cpppaths
        Compiler include paths for the different variants.
        The number of \FCcpppaths\F[] entries
        must match the number of \FCvariant\F[]
        entries, or be empty (not specified). If you give
        only one, it will automatically be propagated to all
        variants. If you don't give this parameter, SCons
        will use the invoking environment's
        \FCCPPPATH\F[] entry for all variants.

    buildtarget
        An optional string, node, or list of strings
        or nodes (one per build variant), to tell
        the Visual Studio debugger what output target
        to use in what build variant. The number of
        \FCbuildtarget\F[] entries must match the
        number of \FCvariant\F[] entries.

    runfile
        The name of the file that Visual Studio 7 and
        later will run and debug. This appears as the
        value of the \FCOutput\F[] field in the
        resulting Visual Studio project file. If this is not
        specified, the default is the same as the specified
        \FCbuildtarget\F[] value.
Note that because SCons always executes its build commands
from the directory in which the \FCSConstruct\F[] file is located,
if you generate a project file in a different directory
than the \FCSConstruct\F[] directory, users will not be able to
double-click on the file name in compilation error messages
displayed in the Visual Studio console output window. This can
be remedied by adding the Visual C/C++ \FC/FC\F[]
compiler option to the $CCFLAGS [scons(1)] variable so that
the compiler will print the full path name of any files that
cause compilation errors.
Example usage:
\FC
barsrcs = ['bar.cpp']
barincs = ['bar.h']
barlocalincs = ['StdAfx.h']
barresources = ['bar.rc','resource.h']
barmisc = ['bar_readme.txt']
dll = env.SharedLibrary(target='bar.dll',
                        source=barsrcs)
buildtarget = [s for s in dll if str(s).endswith('dll')]
env.MSVSProject(target='Bar' + env['MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX'],
                srcs=barsrcs,
                incs=barincs,
                localincs=barlocalincs,
                resources=barresources,
                misc=barmisc,
                buildtarget=buildtarget,
                variant='Release')
      \F[]
Starting with version 2.4 of SCons it is also possible to specify the optional argument \FCDebugSettings\F[], which creates files for debugging under Visual Studio:

    DebugSettings
        A dictionary of debug settings that get written to the \FC.vcproj.user\F[] or the \FC.vcxproj.user\F[] file, depending on the version installed. As it is done for cmdargs (see above), you can specify a \FCDebugSettings\F[] dictionary per variant. If you give only one, it will be propagated to all variants.
Currently, only Visual Studio v9.0 and Visual Studio version v11 are implemented, for other versions no file is generated. To generate the user file, you just need to add a \FCDebugSettings\F[] dictionary to the environment with the right parameters for your MSVS version. If the dictionary is empty, or does not contain any good value, no file will be generated. Following is a more contrived example, involving the setup of a project for variants and DebugSettings:
\FC
# Assuming you store your defaults in a file
vars = Variables('variables.py')
msvcver = vars.args.get('vc', '9')
# Check command args to force one Microsoft Visual Studio version
if msvcver == '9' or msvcver == '11':
  env = Environment(MSVC_VERSION=msvcver+'.0', MSVC_BATCH=False)
else:
  env = Environment()
AddOption('--userfile', action='store_true', dest='userfile', default=False,
          help="Create Visual Studio Project user file")
#
# 1. Configure your Debug Setting dictionary with options you want in the list
# of allowed options, for instance if you want to create a user file to launch
# a specific application for testing your dll with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (v9):
#
V9DebugSettings = {
    'Command':'c:\\myapp\\using\\thisdll.exe',
    'WorkingDirectory': 'c:\\myapp\\using\\',
    'CommandArguments': '-p password',
#     'Attach':'false',
#     'DebuggerType':'3',
#     'Remote':'1',
#     'RemoteMachine': None,
#     'RemoteCommand': None,
#     'HttpUrl': None,
#     'PDBPath': None,
#     'SQLDebugging': None,
#     'Environment': '',
#     'EnvironmentMerge':'true',
#     'DebuggerFlavor': None,
#     'MPIRunCommand': None,
#     'MPIRunArguments': None,
#     'MPIRunWorkingDirectory': None,
#     'ApplicationCommand': None,
#     'ApplicationArguments': None,
#     'ShimCommand': None,
#     'MPIAcceptMode': None,
#     'MPIAcceptFilter': None,
}
#
# 2. Because there are a lot of different options depending on the Microsoft
# Visual Studio version, if you use more than one version you have to
# define a dictionary per version, for instance if you want to create a user
# file to launch a specific application for testing your dll with Microsoft
# Visual Studio 2012 (v11):
#
V10DebugSettings = {
    'LocalDebuggerCommand': 'c:\\myapp\\using\\thisdll.exe',
    'LocalDebuggerWorkingDirectory': 'c:\\myapp\\using\\',
    'LocalDebuggerCommandArguments': '-p password',
#     'LocalDebuggerEnvironment': None,
#     'DebuggerFlavor': 'WindowsLocalDebugger',
#     'LocalDebuggerAttach': None,
#     'LocalDebuggerDebuggerType': None,
#     'LocalDebuggerMergeEnvironment': None,
#     'LocalDebuggerSQLDebugging': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerCommand': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerCommandArguments': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerWorkingDirectory': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerServerName': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerConnection': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerDebuggerType': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerAttach': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerSQLDebugging': None,
#     'DeploymentDirectory': None,
#     'AdditionalFiles': None,
#     'RemoteDebuggerDeployDebugCppRuntime': None,
#     'WebBrowserDebuggerHttpUrl': None,
#     'WebBrowserDebuggerDebuggerType': None,
#     'WebServiceDebuggerHttpUrl': None,
#     'WebServiceDebuggerDebuggerType': None,
#     'WebServiceDebuggerSQLDebugging': None,
}
#
# 3. Select the dictionary you want depending on the version of visual Studio
# Files you want to generate.
#
if not env.GetOption('userfile'):
    dbgSettings = None
elif env.get('MSVC_VERSION', None) == '9.0':
    dbgSettings = V9DebugSettings
elif env.get('MSVC_VERSION', None) == '11.0':
    dbgSettings = V10DebugSettings
else:
    dbgSettings = None
#
# 4. Add the dictionary to the DebugSettings keyword.
#
barsrcs = ['bar.cpp', 'dllmain.cpp', 'stdafx.cpp']
barincs = ['targetver.h']
barlocalincs = ['StdAfx.h']
barresources = ['bar.rc','resource.h']
barmisc = ['ReadMe.txt']
dll = env.SharedLibrary(target='bar.dll',
                        source=barsrcs)
env.MSVSProject(target='Bar' + env['MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX'],
                srcs=barsrcs,
                incs=barincs,
                localincs=barlocalincs,
                resources=barresources,
                misc=barmisc,
                buildtarget=[dll[0]] * 2,
                variant=('Debug|Win32', 'Release|Win32'),
                cmdargs='vc=%s' %  msvcver,
                DebugSettings=(dbgSettings, {}))
      \F[]

\FCMSVSSolution()\F[] , \FCenv.MSVSSolution()\F[]
    Builds a Microsoft Visual Studio solution file. This builds a Visual Studio solution file, based on the version of Visual Studio that is configured (either the latest installed version, or the version specified by $MSVS_VERSION [scons(1)] in the construction environment). For Visual Studio 6, it will generate a \FC.dsw\F[] file. For Visual Studio 7 (.NET), it will generate a \FC.sln\F[] file. The following values must be specified:

    target
        The name of the target .dsw or .sln file. The correct suffix for the version of Visual Studio must be used, but the value $MSVSSOLUTIONSUFFIX [scons(1)] will be defined to the correct value (see example below).

    variant
        The name of this particular variant, or a list of variant names (the latter is only supported for MSVS 7 solutions). These are typically things like "Debug" or "Release", but really can be anything you want. For MSVS 7 they may also specify target platform, like this "Debug|Xbox". Default platform is Win32.

    projects
        A list of project file names, or Project nodes returned by calls to the \FCMSVSProject\F[] Builder, to be placed into the solution file. It should be noted that these file names are NOT added to the $SOURCES environment variable in form of files, but rather as strings. This is because they represent file names to be added to the solution file, not the source files used to build the solution file.
Example Usage:
\FC
env.MSVSSolution(target='Bar' + env['MSVSSOLUTIONSUFFIX'], projects=['bar' + env['MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX']], variant='Release')
      \F[]

\FCObject()\F[] , \FCenv.Object()\F[]
    A synonym for the \FCStaticObject\F[] builder method.

\FCPackage()\F[] , \FCenv.Package()\F[]
    Builds a Binary Package of the given source files.
    \FC
    env.Package(source = FindInstalledFiles())
    \F[].fi
    Builds software distribution packages.
    Packages consist of files to install and packaging information.
    The former may be specified with the \FCsource\F[] parameter and may be left out,
    in which case the \FCFindInstalledFiles\F[] function will collect
    all files that have an \FCInstall\F[] or \FCInstallAs\F[] Builder attached.
    If the \FCtarget\F[] is not specified
    it will be deduced from additional information given to this Builder.
    The packaging information is specified
    with the help of construction variables documented below.
    This information is called a tag to stress that
    some of them can also be attached to files with the \FCTag\F[] function.
    The mandatory ones will complain if they were not specified.
    They vary depending on chosen target packager.
    The target packager may be selected with the "PACKAGETYPE" command line
    option or with the $PACKAGETYPE construction variable. Currently
    the following packagers available:
    * msi - Microsoft Installer
    * rpm - RPM Package Manger
    * ipkg - Itsy Package Management System
    * tarbz2 - bzip2 compressed tar
    * targz - gzip compressed tar
    * tarxz - xz compressed tar
    * zip - zip file
    * src_tarbz2 - bzip2 compressed tar source
    * src_targz - gzip compressed tar source
    * src_tarxz - xz compressed tar source
    * src_zip - zip file source
    An updated list is always available under the "package_type" option when
    running "scons --help" on a project that has packaging activated.
    \FC
    env = Environment(tools=['default', 'packaging'])
    env.Install('/bin/', 'my_program')
    env.Package( NAME           = 'foo',
                 VERSION        = '1.2.3',
                 PACKAGEVERSION = 0,
                 PACKAGETYPE    = 'rpm',
                 LICENSE        = 'gpl',
                 SUMMARY        = 'balalalalal',
                 DESCRIPTION    = 'this should be really really long',
                 X_RPM_GROUP    = 'Application/fu',
                 SOURCE_URL     = 'http://foo.org/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz'
            )
    \F[].fi

\FCPCH()\F[] , \FCenv.PCH()\F[]
    Builds a Microsoft Visual C++ precompiled header.
    Calling this builder method
    returns a list of two targets: the PCH as the first element, and the object
    file as the second element. Normally the object file is ignored.
    This builder method is only
    provided when Microsoft Visual C++ is being used as the compiler.
    The PCH builder method is generally used in
    conjunction with the PCH construction variable to force object files to use
    the precompiled header:
    \FC
    env['PCH'] = env.PCH('StdAfx.cpp')[0]
    \F[].fi

\FCPDF()\F[] , \FCenv.PDF()\F[]
    Builds a \FC.pdf\F[] file
    from a \FC.dvi\F[] input file
    (or, by extension, a \FC.tex\F[],
    \FC.ltx\F[],
    or
    \FC.latex\F[] input file).
    The suffix specified by the $PDFSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable
    (\FC.pdf\F[] by default)
    is added automatically to the target
    if it is not already present. Example:
    \FC
    # builds from aaa.tex
    env.PDF(target = 'aaa.pdf', source = 'aaa.tex')
    # builds bbb.pdf from bbb.dvi
    env.PDF(target = 'bbb', source = 'bbb.dvi')
    \F[].fi

\FCPOInit()\F[] , \FCenv.POInit()\F[]
    This builder belongs to \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool. The builder initializes missing
    \FCPO\F[] file(s) if $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)] is set. If
    $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)] is not set (default), \FCPOInit\F[] prints instruction for
    user (that is supposed to be a translator), telling how the
    \FCPO\F[] file should be initialized. In normal projects
    you should not use \FCPOInit\F[] and use \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)]
    instead. \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] chooses intelligently between
    msgmerge(1) and msginit(1). \FCPOInit\F[]
    always uses msginit(1) and should be regarded as builder for
    special purposes or for temporary use (e.g. for quick, one time initialization
    of a bunch of \FCPO\F[] files) or for tests.
    Target nodes defined through \FCPOInit\F[] are not built by default (they're
    \FCIgnore\F[]d from \FC'.'\F[] node) but are added to
    special \FCAlias\F[] (\FC'po-create'\F[] by default).
    The alias name may be changed through the $POCREATE_ALIAS [scons(1)]
    construction variable. All \FCPO\F[] files defined through
    \FCPOInit\F[] may be easily initialized by scons po-create.
    Example 1.
    Initialize \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] from
    \FCmessages.pot\F[]:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POInit(['en', 'pl']) # messages.pot --> [en.po, pl.po]
    \F[].fi
    Example 2.
    Initialize \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] from
    \FCfoo.pot\F[]:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POInit(['en', 'pl'], ['foo']) # foo.pot --> [en.po, pl.po]
    \F[].fi
    Example 3.
    Initialize \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] from
    \FCfoo.pot\F[] but using $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)] construction
    variable:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POInit(['en', 'pl'], POTDOMAIN='foo') # foo.pot --> [en.po, pl.po]
    \F[].fi
    Example 4.
    Initialize \FCPO\F[] files for languages defined in
    \FCLINGUAS\F[] file. The files will be initialized from template
    \FCmessages.pot\F[]:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POInit(LINGUAS_FILE = 1) # needs 'LINGUAS' file
    \F[].fi
    Example 5.
    Initialize \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.pl\F[]
    \FCPO\F[] files plus files for languages defined in
    \FCLINGUAS\F[] file. The files will be initialized from template
    \FCmessages.pot\F[]:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POInit(['en', 'pl'], LINGUAS_FILE = 1)
    \F[].fi
    Example 6.
    You may preconfigure your environment first, and then initialize
    \FCPO\F[] files:
    \FC
      # ...
      env['POAUTOINIT'] = 1
      env['LINGUAS_FILE'] = 1
      env['POTDOMAIN'] = 'foo'
      env.POInit()
    \F[].fi
    which has same efect as:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POInit(POAUTOINIT = 1, LINGUAS_FILE = 1, POTDOMAIN = 'foo')
    \F[].fi

\FCPostScript()\F[] , \FCenv.PostScript()\F[]
    Builds a \FC.ps\F[] file
    from a \FC.dvi\F[] input file
    (or, by extension, a \FC.tex\F[],
    \FC.ltx\F[],
    or
    \FC.latex\F[] input file).
    The suffix specified by the $PSSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable
    (\FC.ps\F[] by default)
    is added automatically to the target
    if it is not already present. Example:
    \FC
    # builds from aaa.tex
    env.PostScript(target = 'aaa.ps', source = 'aaa.tex')
    # builds bbb.ps from bbb.dvi
    env.PostScript(target = 'bbb', source = 'bbb.dvi')
    \F[].fi

\FCPOTUpdate()\F[] , \FCenv.POTUpdate()\F[]
    The builder belongs to \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool. The builder updates target
    \FCPOT\F[] file if exists or creates one if it doesn't. The node is
    not built by default (i.e. it is \FCIgnore\F[]d from
    \FC'.'\F[]), but only on demand (i.e. when given
    \FCPOT\F[] file is required or when special alias is invoked). This
    builder adds its targe node (\FCmessages.pot\F[], say) to a
    special alias (\FCpot-update\F[] by default, see
    $POTUPDATE_ALIAS [scons(1)]) so you can update/create them easily with
    scons pot-update. The file is not written until there is no
    real change in internationalized messages (or in comments that enter
    \FCPOT\F[] file).
    Note
    You may see xgettext(1) being invoked by the
    \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool even if there is no real change in internationalized
    messages (so the \FCPOT\F[] file is not being updated). This
    happens every time a source file has changed. In such case we invoke
    xgettext(1) and compare its output with the content of
    \FCPOT\F[] file to decide whether the file should be updated or
    not.
Example 1.
Let's create \FCpo/\F[] directory and place following
\FCSConstruct\F[] script there:
\FC
  # SConstruct in 'po/' subdir
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'xgettext'] )
  env.POTUpdate(['foo'], ['../a.cpp', '../b.cpp'])
  env.POTUpdate(['bar'], ['../c.cpp', '../d.cpp'])
\F[].fi
Then invoke scons few times:
\FC
  user@host:$ scons             # Does not create foo.pot nor bar.pot
  user@host:$ scons foo.pot     # Updates or creates foo.pot
  user@host:$ scons pot-update  # Updates or creates foo.pot and bar.pot
  user@host:$ scons -c          # Does not clean foo.pot nor bar.pot.
\F[].fi
the results shall be as the comments above say.
Example 2.
The \FCPOTUpdate\F[] builder may be used with no target specified, in which
case default target \FCmessages.pot\F[] will be used. The
default target may also be overridden by setting $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)] construction
variable or providing it as an override to \FCPOTUpdate\F[] builder:
\FC
  # SConstruct script
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'xgettext'] )
  env['POTDOMAIN'] = "foo"
  env.POTUpdate(source = ["a.cpp", "b.cpp"]) # Creates foo.pot ...
  env.POTUpdate(POTDOMAIN = "bar", source = ["c.cpp", "d.cpp"]) # and bar.pot
\F[].fi
Example 3.
The sources may be specified within separate file, for example
\FCPOTFILES.in\F[]:
\FC
  # POTFILES.in in 'po/' subdirectory
  ../a.cpp
  ../b.cpp
  # end of file
\F[].fi
The name of the file (\FCPOTFILES.in\F[]) containing the list of
sources is provided via $XGETTEXTFROM [scons(1)]:
\FC
  # SConstruct file in 'po/' subdirectory
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'xgettext'] )
  env.POTUpdate(XGETTEXTFROM = 'POTFILES.in')
\F[].fi
Example 4.
You may use $XGETTEXTPATH [scons(1)] to define source search path. Assume, for
example, that you have files \FCa.cpp\F[],
\FCb.cpp\F[], \FCpo/SConstruct\F[],
\FCpo/POTFILES.in\F[]. Then your \FCPOT\F[]-related
files could look as below:
\FC
  # POTFILES.in in 'po/' subdirectory
  a.cpp
  b.cpp
  # end of file
\F[].fi
\FC
  # SConstruct file in 'po/' subdirectory
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'xgettext'] )
  env.POTUpdate(XGETTEXTFROM = 'POTFILES.in', XGETTEXTPATH='../')
\F[].fi
Example 5.
Multiple search directories may be defined within a list, i.e.
\FCXGETTEXTPATH = ['dir1', 'dir2', ...]\F[]. The order in the list
determines the search order of source files. The path to the first file found
is used.
Let's create \FC0/1/po/SConstruct\F[] script:
\FC
  # SConstruct file in '0/1/po/' subdirectory
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'xgettext'] )
  env.POTUpdate(XGETTEXTFROM = 'POTFILES.in', XGETTEXTPATH=['../', '../../'])
\F[].fi
and \FC0/1/po/POTFILES.in\F[]:
\FC
  # POTFILES.in in '0/1/po/' subdirectory
  a.cpp
  # end of file
\F[].fi
Write two \FC*.cpp\F[] files, the first one is
\FC0/a.cpp\F[]:
\FC
  /* 0/a.cpp */
  gettext("Hello from ../../a.cpp")
\F[].fi
and the second is \FC0/1/a.cpp\F[]:
\FC
  /* 0/1/a.cpp */
  gettext("Hello from ../a.cpp")
\F[].fi
then run scons. You'll obtain \FC0/1/po/messages.pot\F[] with the
message \FC"Hello from ../a.cpp"\F[]. When you reverse order in
\FC$XGETTEXTFOM\F[], i.e. when you write SConscript as
\FC
  # SConstruct file in '0/1/po/' subdirectory
  env = Environment( tools = ['default', 'xgettext'] )
  env.POTUpdate(XGETTEXTFROM = 'POTFILES.in', XGETTEXTPATH=['../../', '../'])
\F[].fi
then the \FCmessages.pot\F[] will contain
\FCmsgid "Hello from ../../a.cpp"\F[] line and not
\FCmsgid "Hello from ../a.cpp"\F[].

\FCPOUpdate()\F[] , \FCenv.POUpdate()\F[]
    The builder belongs to \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] tool. The builder updates
    \FCPO\F[] files with msgmerge(1), or initializes
    missing \FCPO\F[] files as described in documentation of
    \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder (see also
    $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)]). Note, that \FCPOUpdate\F[] does not add its
    targets to \FCpo-create\F[] alias as \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)]
    does.
    Target nodes defined through \FCPOUpdate\F[] are not built by default
    (they're \FCIgnore\F[]d from \FC'.'\F[] node). Instead,
    they are added automatically to special \FCAlias\F[]
    (\FC'po-update'\F[] by default). The alias name may be changed
    through the $POUPDATE_ALIAS [scons(1)] construction variable. You can easily
    update \FCPO\F[] files in your project by scons
    po-update.
    Example 1.
    Update \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] from
    \FCmessages.pot\F[] template (see also $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)]),
    assuming that the later one exists or there is rule to build it (see
    \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)]):
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POUpdate(['en','pl']) # messages.pot --> [en.po, pl.po]
    \F[].fi
    Example 2.
    Update \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] from
    \FCfoo.pot\F[] template:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POUpdate(['en', 'pl'], ['foo']) # foo.pot -->  [en.po, pl.pl]
    \F[].fi
    Example 3.
    Update \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] from
    \FCfoo.pot\F[] (another version):
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POUpdate(['en', 'pl'], POTDOMAIN='foo') # foo.pot -- > [en.po, pl.pl]
    \F[].fi
    Example 4.
    Update files for languages defined in \FCLINGUAS\F[] file. The
    files are updated from \FCmessages.pot\F[] template:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POUpdate(LINGUAS_FILE = 1) # needs 'LINGUAS' file
    \F[].fi
    Example 5.
    Same as above, but update from \FCfoo.pot\F[] template:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POUpdate(LINGUAS_FILE = 1, source = ['foo'])
    \F[].fi
    Example 6.
    Update \FCen.po\F[] and \FCpl.po\F[] plus files for
    languages defined in \FCLINGUAS\F[] file. The files are updated
    from \FCmessages.pot\F[] template:
    \FC
      # produce 'en.po', 'pl.po' + files defined in 'LINGUAS':
      env.POUpdate(['en', 'pl' ], LINGUAS_FILE = 1)
    \F[].fi
    Example 7.
    Use $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)] to automatically initialize \FCPO\F[] file
    if it doesn't exist:
    \FC
      # ...
      env.POUpdate(LINGUAS_FILE = 1, POAUTOINIT = 1)
    \F[].fi
    Example 8.
    Update \FCPO\F[] files for languages defined in
    \FCLINGUAS\F[] file. The files are updated from
    \FCfoo.pot\F[] template. All necessary settings are
    pre-configured via environment.
    \FC
      # ...
      env['POAUTOINIT'] = 1
      env['LINGUAS_FILE'] = 1
      env['POTDOMAIN'] = 'foo'
      env.POUpdate()
    \F[].fi

\FCProgram()\F[] , \FCenv.Program()\F[]
    Builds an executable given one or more object files
    or C, C++, D, or Fortran source files.
    If any C, C++, D or Fortran source files are specified,
    then they will be automatically
    compiled to object files using the
    \FCObject\F[]
    builder method;
    see that builder method's description for
    a list of legal source file suffixes
    and how they are interpreted.
    The target executable file prefix
    (specified by the $PROGPREFIX [scons(1)] construction variable; nothing by default)
    and suffix
    (specified by the $PROGSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    by default, \FC.exe\F[] on Windows systems,
    nothing on POSIX systems)
    are automatically added to the target if not already present.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Program(target = 'foo', source = ['foo.o', 'bar.c', 'baz.f'])
    \F[].fi

\FCProgramAllAtOnce()\F[] , \FCenv.ProgramAllAtOnce()\F[]
    Builds an executable from D sources without first creating individual
    objects for each file.
    D sources can be compiled file-by-file as C and C++ source are, and
    D is integrated into the \FCscons\F[] Object and Program builders for
    this model of build. D codes can though do whole source
    meta-programming (some of the testing frameworks do this). For this
    it is imperative that all sources are compiled and linked in a single
    call to the D compiler. This builder serves that purpose.
    \FC
        env.ProgramAllAtOnce('executable', ['mod_a.d, mod_b.d', 'mod_c.d'])
      \F[]
    This command will compile the modules mod_a, mod_b, and mod_c in a single compilation process without first creating object files for the modules. Some of the D compilers will create executable.o others will not.

\FCRES()\F[] , \FCenv.RES()\F[]
    Builds a Microsoft Visual C++ resource file. This builder method is only provided when Microsoft Visual C++ or MinGW is being used as the compiler. The \FC.res\F[] (or \FC.o\F[] for MinGW) suffix is added to the target name if no other suffix is given. The source file is scanned for implicit dependencies as though it were a C file. Example:
    \FC
    env.RES('resource.rc')
    \F[].fi

\FCRMIC()\F[] , \FCenv.RMIC()\F[]
    Builds stub and skeleton class files
    for remote objects
    from Java \FC.class\F[] files.
    The target is a directory
    relative to which the stub
    and skeleton class files will be written.
    The source can be the names of \FC.class\F[] files,
    or the objects return from the
    \FCJava\F[]
    builder method.
    If the construction variable
    $JAVACLASSDIR [scons(1)]
    is set, either in the environment
    or in the call to the
    \FCRMIC\F[]
    builder method itself,
    then the value of the variable
    will be stripped from the
    beginning of any \FC.class \F[]
    file names.
    \FC
    classes = env.Java(target = 'classdir', source = 'src')
    env.RMIC(target = 'outdir1', source = classes)
    env.RMIC(target = 'outdir2',
             source = ['package/foo.class', 'package/bar.class'])
    env.RMIC(target = 'outdir3',
             source = ['classes/foo.class', 'classes/bar.class'],
             JAVACLASSDIR = 'classes')
    \F[].fi

\FCRPCGenClient()\F[] , \FCenv.RPCGenClient()\F[]
    Generates an RPC client stub (\FC_clnt.c\F[]) file
    from a specified RPC (\FC.x\F[]) source file.
    Because rpcgen only builds output files
    in the local directory,
    the command will be executed
    in the source file's directory by default.
    \FC
    # Builds src/rpcif_clnt.c
    env.RPCGenClient('src/rpcif.x')
    \F[].fi

\FCRPCGenHeader()\F[] , \FCenv.RPCGenHeader()\F[]
    Generates an RPC header (\FC.h\F[]) file
    from a specified RPC (\FC.x\F[]) source file.
    Because rpcgen only builds output files
    in the local directory,
    the command will be executed
    in the source file's directory by default.
    \FC
    # Builds src/rpcif.h
    env.RPCGenHeader('src/rpcif.x')
    \F[].fi

\FCRPCGenService()\F[] , \FCenv.RPCGenService()\F[]
    Generates an RPC server-skeleton (\FC_svc.c\F[]) file
    from a specified RPC (\FC.x\F[]) source file.
    Because rpcgen only builds output files
    in the local directory,
    the command will be executed
    in the source file's directory by default.
    \FC
    # Builds src/rpcif_svc.c
    env.RPCGenClient('src/rpcif.x')
    \F[].fi

\FCRPCGenXDR()\F[] , \FCenv.RPCGenXDR()\F[]
    Generates an RPC XDR routine (\FC_xdr.c\F[]) file
    from a specified RPC (\FC.x\F[]) source file.
    Because rpcgen only builds output files
    in the local directory,
    the command will be executed
    in the source file's directory by default.
    \FC
    # Builds src/rpcif_xdr.c
    env.RPCGenClient('src/rpcif.x')
    \F[].fi

\FCSharedLibrary()\F[] , \FCenv.SharedLibrary()\F[]
    Builds a shared library
    (\FC.so\F[] on a POSIX system,
    \FC.dll\F[] on Windows)
    given one or more object files
    or C, C++, D or Fortran source files.
    If any source files are given,
    then they will be automatically
    compiled to object files.
    The static library prefix and suffix (if any)
    are automatically added to the target.
    The target library file prefix
    (specified by the $SHLIBPREFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    by default, \FClib\F[] on POSIX systems,
    nothing on Windows systems)
    and suffix
    (specified by the $SHLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    by default, \FC.dll\F[] on Windows systems,
    \FC.so\F[] on POSIX systems)
    are automatically added to the target if not already present.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.SharedLibrary(target = 'bar', source = ['bar.c', 'foo.o'])
    \F[].fi
    On Windows systems, the
    \FCSharedLibrary\F[]
    builder method will always build an import
    (\FC.lib\F[]) library
    in addition to the shared (\FC.dll\F[]) library,
    adding a \FC.lib\F[] library with the same basename
    if there is not already a \FC.lib\F[] file explicitly
    listed in the targets.
    On Cygwin systems, the
    \FCSharedLibrary\F[]
    builder method will always build an import
    (\FC.dll.a\F[]) library
    in addition to the shared (\FC.dll\F[]) library,
    adding a \FC.dll.a\F[] library with the same basename
    if there is not already a \FC.dll.a\F[] file explicitly
    listed in the targets.
    Any object files listed in the
    \FCsource\F[]
    must have been built for a shared library
    (that is, using the
    \FCSharedObject\F[]
    builder method).
    \FCscons\F[]
    will raise an error if there is any mismatch.
    On some platforms, there is a distinction between a shared library
    (loaded automatically by the system to resolve external references)
    and a loadable module (explicitly loaded by user action).
    For maximum portability, use the \FCLoadableModule\F[] builder for the latter.
    When the $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] construction variable is defined a versioned
    shared library is created. This modifies the $SHLINKFLAGS [scons(1)] as required,
    adds the version number to the library name, and creates the symlinks that
    are needed.
    \FC
    env.SharedLibrary(target = 'bar', source = ['bar.c', 'foo.o'], SHLIBVERSION='1.5.2')
    \F[].fi
    On a POSIX system, versions with a single token create exactly one symlink:
    libbar.so.6 would have symlinks libbar.so only.
    On a POSIX system, versions with two or more
    tokens create exactly two symlinks: libbar.so.2.3.1 would have symlinks
    libbar.so and libbar.so.2; on a Darwin (OSX) system the library would be
    libbar.2.3.1.dylib and the link would be libbar.dylib.
    On Windows systems, specifying
    \FCregister=1\F[]
    will cause the \FC.dll\F[] to be
    registered after it is built using REGSVR32.
    The command that is run
    ("regsvr32" by default) is determined by $REGSVR [scons(1)] construction
    variable, and the flags passed are determined by $REGSVRFLAGS [scons(1)]. By
    default, $REGSVRFLAGS [scons(1)] includes the \FC/s\F[] option,
    to prevent dialogs from popping
    up and requiring user attention when it is run. If you change
    $REGSVRFLAGS [scons(1)], be sure to include the \FC/s\F[] option.
    For example,
    \FC
    env.SharedLibrary(target = 'bar',
                      source = ['bar.cxx', 'foo.obj'],
                      register=1)
    \F[].fi
    will register \FCbar.dll\F[] as a COM object
    when it is done linking it.

\FCSharedObject()\F[] , \FCenv.SharedObject()\F[]
    Builds an object file for
    inclusion in a shared library.
    Source files must have one of the same set of extensions
    specified above for the
    \FCStaticObject\F[]
    builder method.
    On some platforms building a shared object requires additional
    compiler option
    (e.g. \FC-fPIC\F[] for gcc)
    in addition to those needed to build a
    normal (static) object, but on some platforms there is no difference between a
    shared object and a normal (static) one. When there is a difference, SCons
    will only allow shared objects to be linked into a shared library, and will
    use a different suffix for shared objects. On platforms where there is no
    difference, SCons will allow both normal (static)
    and shared objects to be linked into a
    shared library, and will use the same suffix for shared and normal
    (static) objects.
    The target object file prefix
    (specified by the $SHOBJPREFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    by default, the same as $OBJPREFIX [scons(1)])
    and suffix
    (specified by the $SHOBJSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable)
    are automatically added to the target if not already present.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env.SharedObject(target = 'ddd', source = 'ddd.c')
    env.SharedObject(target = 'eee.o', source = 'eee.cpp')
    env.SharedObject(target = 'fff.obj', source = 'fff.for')
    \F[].fi
    Note that the source files will be scanned
    according to the suffix mappings in the
    \FCSourceFileScanner\F[]
    object.
    See the section "Scanner Objects,"
    below, for more information.

\FCStaticLibrary()\F[] , \FCenv.StaticLibrary()\F[]
    Builds a static library given one or more object files
    or C, C++, D or Fortran source files.
    If any source files are given,
    then they will be automatically
    compiled to object files.
    The static library prefix and suffix (if any)
    are automatically added to the target.
    The target library file prefix
    (specified by the $LIBPREFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    by default, \FClib\F[] on POSIX systems,
    nothing on Windows systems)
    and suffix
    (specified by the $LIBSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    by default, \FC.lib\F[] on Windows systems,
    \FC.a\F[] on POSIX systems)
    are automatically added to the target if not already present.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.StaticLibrary(target = 'bar', source = ['bar.c', 'foo.o'])
    \F[].fi
    Any object files listed in the
    \FCsource\F[]
    must have been built for a static library
    (that is, using the
    \FCStaticObject\F[]
    builder method).
    \FCscons\F[]
    will raise an error if there is any mismatch.

\FCStaticObject()\F[] , \FCenv.StaticObject()\F[]
    Builds a static object file
    from one or more C, C++, D, or Fortran source files.
    Source files must have one of the following extensions:
    \FC
      .asm    assembly language file
      .ASM    assembly language file
      .c      C file
      .C      Windows:  C file
              POSIX:  C++ file
      .cc     C++ file
      .cpp    C++ file
      .cxx    C++ file
      .cxx    C++ file
      .c++    C++ file
      .C++    C++ file
      .d      D file
      .f      Fortran file
      .F      Windows:  Fortran file
              POSIX:  Fortran file + C pre-processor
      .for    Fortran file
      .FOR    Fortran file
      .fpp    Fortran file + C pre-processor
      .FPP    Fortran file + C pre-processor
      .m      Object C file
      .mm     Object C++ file
      .s      assembly language file
      .S      Windows:  assembly language file
              ARM: CodeSourcery Sourcery Lite
      .sx     assembly language file + C pre-processor
              POSIX:  assembly language file + C pre-processor
      .spp    assembly language file + C pre-processor
      .SPP    assembly language file + C pre-processor
    \F[].fi
    The target object file prefix
    (specified by the $OBJPREFIX [scons(1)] construction variable; nothing by default)
    and suffix
    (specified by the $OBJSUFFIX [scons(1)] construction variable;
    \FC.obj\F[] on Windows systems,
    \FC.o\F[] on POSIX systems)
    are automatically added to the target if not already present.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env.StaticObject(target = 'aaa', source = 'aaa.c')
    env.StaticObject(target = 'bbb.o', source = 'bbb.c++')
    env.StaticObject(target = 'ccc.obj', source = 'ccc.f')
    \F[].fi
    Note that the source files will be scanned
    according to the suffix mappings in
    \FCSourceFileScanner\F[]
    object.
    See the section "Scanner Objects,"
    below, for more information.

\FCSubstfile()\F[] , \FCenv.Substfile()\F[]
    The \FCSubstfile\F[] builder creates a single text file from another file or set of
    files by concatenating them with $LINESEPARATOR and replacing text
    using the $SUBST_DICT construction variable. Nested lists of source files
    are flattened. See also \FCTextfile\F[].
    If a single source file is present with an \FC.in\F[] suffix,
    the suffix is stripped and the remainder is used as the default target name.
    The prefix and suffix specified by the $SUBSTFILEPREFIX
    and $SUBSTFILESUFFIX construction variables
    (the null string by default in both cases)
    are automatically added to the target if they are not already present.
    If a construction variable named $SUBST_DICT is present,
    it may be either a Python dictionary or a sequence of (key,value) tuples.
    If it is a dictionary it is converted into a list of tuples in an arbitrary order,
    so if one key is a prefix of another key
    or if one substitution could be further expanded by another subsitition,
    it is unpredictable whether the expansion will occur.
    Any occurrences of a key in the source
    are replaced by the corresponding value,
    which may be a Python callable function or a string.
    If the value is a callable, it is called with no arguments to get a string.
    Strings are subst-expanded
    and the result replaces the key.
    \FC
    env = Environment(tools=['default'])
    env['prefix'] = '/usr/bin'
    script_dict = {'@prefix@': '/bin', '@exec_prefix@': '$prefix'}
    env.Substfile('script.in', SUBST_DICT = script_dict)
    conf_dict = {'%VERSION%': '1.2.3', '%BASE%': 'MyProg'}
    env.Substfile('config.h.in', conf_dict, SUBST_DICT = conf_dict)
    # UNPREDICTABLE - one key is a prefix of another
    bad_foo = {'$foo': '$foo', '$foobar': '$foobar'}
    env.Substfile('foo.in', SUBST_DICT = bad_foo)
    # PREDICTABLE - keys are applied longest first
    good_foo = [('$foobar', '$foobar'), ('$foo', '$foo')]
    env.Substfile('foo.in', SUBST_DICT = good_foo)
    # UNPREDICTABLE - one substitution could be futher expanded
    bad_bar = {'@bar@': '@soap@', '@soap@': 'lye'}
    env.Substfile('bar.in', SUBST_DICT = bad_bar)
    # PREDICTABLE - substitutions are expanded in order
    good_bar = (('@bar@', '@soap@'), ('@soap@', 'lye'))
    env.Substfile('bar.in', SUBST_DICT = good_bar)
    # the SUBST_DICT may be in common (and not an override)
    substutions = {}
    subst = Environment(tools=['textfile'], SUBST_DICT=substitutions)
    substitutions['@foo@'] = 'foo'
    subst['SUBST_DICT']['@bar@'] = 'bar'
    subst.Substfile('pgm1.c', [Value('#include "@foo@.h"'),
                               Value('#include "@bar@.h"'),
                               "common.in",
                               "pgm1.in"
                              ])
    subst.Substfile('pgm2.c', [Value('#include "@foo@.h"'),
                               Value('#include "@bar@.h"'),
                               "common.in",
                               "pgm2.in"
                              ])
    \F[].fi

\FCTar()\F[] , \FCenv.Tar()\F[]
    Builds a tar archive of the specified files
    and/or directories.
    Unlike most builder methods,
    the
    \FCTar\F[]
    builder method may be called multiple times
    for a given target;
    each additional call
    adds to the list of entries
    that will be built into the archive.
    Any source directories will
    be scanned for changes to
    any on-disk files,
    regardless of whether or not
    \FCscons\F[]
    knows about them from other Builder or function calls.
    \FC
    env.Tar('src.tar', 'src')
    # Create the stuff.tar file.
    env.Tar('stuff', ['subdir1', 'subdir2'])
    # Also add "another" to the stuff.tar file.
    env.Tar('stuff', 'another')
    # Set TARFLAGS to create a gzip-filtered archive.
    env = Environment(TARFLAGS = '-c -z')
    env.Tar('foo.tar.gz', 'foo')
    # Also set the suffix to .tgz.
    env = Environment(TARFLAGS = '-c -z',
                      TARSUFFIX = '.tgz')
    env.Tar('foo')
    \F[].fi

\FCTextfile()\F[] , \FCenv.Textfile()\F[]
    The \FCTextfile\F[] builder generates a single text file.
    The source strings constitute the lines;
    nested lists of sources are flattened.
    $LINESEPARATOR is used to separate the strings.
    If present, the $SUBST_DICT construction variable
    is used to modify the strings before they are written;
    see the \FCSubstfile\F[] description for details.
    The prefix and suffix specified by the $TEXTFILEPREFIX
    and $TEXTFILESUFFIX construction variables
    (the null string and \FC.txt\F[] by default, respectively)
    are automatically added to the target if they are not already present.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # builds/writes foo.txt
    env.Textfile(target = 'foo.txt', source = ['Goethe', 42, 'Schiller'])
    # builds/writes bar.txt
    env.Textfile(target = 'bar',
                 source = ['lalala', 'tanteratei'],
                 LINESEPARATOR='|*')
    # nested lists are flattened automatically
    env.Textfile(target = 'blob',
                 source = ['lalala', ['Goethe', 42 'Schiller'], 'tanteratei'])
    # files may be used as input by wraping them in File()
    env.Textfile(target = 'concat',  # concatenate files with a marker between
                 source = [File('concat1'), File('concat2')],
                 LINESEPARATOR = '====================\n')
    Results are:
    foo.txt
      ....8<----
      Goethe
      42
      Schiller
      ....8<---- (no linefeed at the end)
    bar.txt:
      ....8<----
      lalala|*tanteratei
      ....8<---- (no linefeed at the end)
    blob.txt
      ....8<----
      lalala
      Goethe
      42
      Schiller
      tanteratei
      ....8<---- (no linefeed at the end)
    \F[].fi

\FCTranslate()\F[] , \FCenv.Translate()\F[]
    This pseudo-builder belongs to \FCgettext\F[] [scons(1)] toolset. The builder extracts
    internationalized messages from source files, updates \FCPOT\F[]
    template (if necessary) and then updates \FCPO\F[] translations (if
    necessary). If $POAUTOINIT [scons(1)] is set, missing \FCPO\F[] files
    will be automatically created (i.e. without translator person intervention).
    The variables $LINGUAS_FILE [scons(1)] and $POTDOMAIN [scons(1)] are taken into
    acount too. All other construction variables used by \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)], and
    \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] work here too.
    Example 1.
    The simplest way is to specify input files and output languages inline in
    a SCons script when invoking \FCTranslate\F[]
    \FC
    # SConscript in 'po/' directory
    env = Environment( tools = ["default", "gettext"] )
    env['POAUTOINIT'] = 1
    env.Translate(['en','pl'], ['../a.cpp','../b.cpp'])
    \F[].fi
    Example 2.
    If you wish, you may also stick to conventional style known from
    autotools, i.e. using
    \FCPOTFILES.in\F[] and \FCLINGUAS\F[] files
    \FC
    # LINGUAS
    en pl
    #end
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # POTFILES.in
    a.cpp
    b.cpp
    # end
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # SConscript
    env = Environment( tools = ["default", "gettext"] )
    env['POAUTOINIT'] = 1
    env['XGETTEXTPATH'] = ['../']
    env.Translate(LINGUAS_FILE = 1, XGETTEXTFROM = 'POTFILES.in')
    \F[].fi
    The last approach is perhaps the recommended one. It allows easily split
    internationalization/localization onto separate SCons scripts, where a script
    in source tree is responsible for translations (from sources to
    \FCPO\F[] files) and script(s) under variant directories are
    responsible for compilation of \FCPO\F[] to \FCMO\F[]
    files to and for installation of \FCMO\F[] files. The "gluing
    factor" synchronizing these two scripts is then the content of
    \FCLINGUAS\F[] file. Note, that the updated
    \FCPOT\F[] and \FCPO\F[] files are usually going to be
    committed back to the repository, so they must be updated within the source
    directory (and not in variant directories). Additionaly, the file listing of
    \FCpo/\F[] directory contains \FCLINGUAS\F[] file,
    so the source tree looks familiar to translators, and they may work with the
    project in their usual way.
    Example 3.
    Let's prepare a development tree as below
    \FC
     project/
      + SConstruct
      + build/
      + src/
          + po/
              + SConscript
              + SConscript.i18n
              + POTFILES.in
              + LINGUAS
    \F[].fi
    with \FCbuild\F[] being variant directory. Write the top-level
    \FCSConstruct\F[] script as follows
    \FC
      # SConstruct
      env = Environment( tools = ["default", "gettext"] )
      VariantDir('build', 'src', duplicate = 0)
      env['POAUTOINIT'] = 1
      SConscript('src/po/SConscript.i18n', exports = 'env')
      SConscript('build/po/SConscript', exports = 'env')
    \F[].fi
    the \FCsrc/po/SConscript.i18n\F[] as
    \FC
      # src/po/SConscript.i18n
      Import('env')
      env.Translate(LINGUAS_FILE=1, XGETTEXTFROM='POTFILES.in', XGETTEXTPATH=['../'])
    \F[].fi
    and the \FCsrc/po/SConscript\F[]
    \FC
      # src/po/SConscript
      Import('env')
      env.MOFiles(LINGUAS_FILE = 1)
    \F[].fi
    Such setup produces \FCPOT\F[] and \FCPO\F[] files
    under source tree in \FCsrc/po/\F[] and binary
    \FCMO\F[] files under variant tree in
    \FCbuild/po/\F[]. This way the \FCPOT\F[] and
    \FCPO\F[] files are separated from other output files, which must
    not be committed back to source repositories (e.g. \FCMO\F[]
    files).
    Note
    In above example, the \FCPO\F[] files are not updated,
    nor created automatically when you issue scons '.' command.
    The files must be updated (created) by hand via scons
    po-update and then \FCMO\F[] files can be compiled by
    running scons '.'.

\FCTypeLibrary()\F[] , \FCenv.TypeLibrary()\F[]
    Builds a Windows type library (\FC.tlb\F[])
    file from an input IDL file (\FC.idl\F[]).
    In addition, it will build the associated interface stub and
    proxy source files,
    naming them according to the base name of the \FC.idl\F[] file.
    For example,
    \FC
    env.TypeLibrary(source="foo.idl")
    \F[].fi
    Will create \FCfoo.tlb\F[],
    \FCfoo.h\F[],
    \FCfoo_i.c\F[],
    \FCfoo_p.c\F[]
    and
    \FCfoo_data.c\F[]
    files.

\FCUic()\F[] , \FCenv.Uic()\F[]
    Builds a header file, an implementation file and a moc file from an ui file.
    and returns the corresponding nodes in the above order.
    This builder is only available after using the tool 'qt'. Note: you can
    specify \FC.ui\F[] files directly as source
    files to the \FCProgram\F[],
    \FCLibrary\F[] and \FCSharedLibrary\F[] builders
    without using this builder. Using this builder lets you override the standard
    naming conventions (be careful: prefixes are always prepended to names of
    built files; if you don't want prefixes, you may set them to ``).
    See the $QTDIR [scons(1)] variable for more information.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Uic('foo.ui') # -> ['foo.h', 'uic_foo.cc', 'moc_foo.cc']
    env.Uic(target = Split('include/foo.h gen/uicfoo.cc gen/mocfoo.cc'),
            source = 'foo.ui') # -> ['include/foo.h', 'gen/uicfoo.cc', 'gen/mocfoo.cc']
    \F[].fi

\FCZip()\F[] , \FCenv.Zip()\F[]
    Builds a zip archive of the specified files
    and/or directories.
    Unlike most builder methods,
    the
    \FCZip\F[]
    builder method may be called multiple times
    for a given target;
    each additional call
    adds to the list of entries
    that will be built into the archive.
    Any source directories will
    be scanned for changes to
    any on-disk files,
    regardless of whether or not
    \FCscons\F[]
    knows about them from other Builder or function calls.
    \FC
    env.Zip('src.zip', 'src')
    # Create the stuff.zip file.
    env.Zip('stuff', ['subdir1', 'subdir2'])
    # Also add "another" to the stuff.tar file.
    env.Zip('stuff', 'another')
    \F[].fi

All
targets of builder methods automatically depend on their sources.
An explicit dependency can
be specified using the
Depends
method of a construction environment (see below).

In addition,
scons
automatically scans
source files for various programming languages,
so the dependencies do not need to be specified explicitly.
By default, SCons can
C source files,
C++ source files,
Fortran source files with
\FC.F\F[]
(POSIX systems only),
\FC.fpp,\F[]
or
\FC.FPP\F[]
file extensions,
and assembly language files with
\FC.S\F[]
(POSIX systems only),
\FC.spp,\F[]
or
\FC.SPP\F[]
files extensions
for C preprocessor dependencies.
SCons also has default support
for scanning D source files,
You can also write your own Scanners
to add support for additional source file types.
These can be added to the default
Scanner object used by the
Object(),
StaticObject(),
and
SharedObject()
Builders by adding them
to the
SourceFileScanner
object.
See the section "Scanner Objects"
below, for more information about
defining your own Scanner objects
and using the
SourceFileScanner
object.

  METHODS AND FUNCTIONS TO DO THINGS
In addition to Builder methods, scons provides a number of other construction environment methods and global functions to manipulate the build configuration.

Usually, a construction environment method and global function with the same name both exist so that you don't have to remember whether to a specific bit of functionality must be called with or without a construction environment. In the following list, if you call something as a global function it looks like:

Function(arguments)

and if you call something through a construction environment it looks like:

env.Function(arguments)

If you can call the functionality in both ways, then both forms are listed.

Global functions may be called from custom Python modules that you import into an SConscript file by adding the following to the Python module:

from SCons.Script import *

Except where otherwise noted, the same-named construction environment method and global function provide the exact same functionality. The only difference is that, where appropriate, calling the functionality through a construction environment will substitute construction variables into any supplied strings. For example:

env = Environment(FOO = 'foo')
Default('$FOO')
env.Default('$FOO')

In the above example, the first call to the global Default() function will actually add a target named $FOO to the list of default targets, while the second call to the env.Default() construction environment method will expand the value and add a target named foo to the list of default targets. For more on construction variable expansion, see the next section on construction variables.

Construction environment methods and global functions supported by scons include:

\FCAction(action, [cmd/str/fun, [var, ...]] [option=value, ...])\F[] , \FCenv.Action(action, [cmd/str/fun, [var, ...]] [option=value, ...])\F[]
    Creates an Action object for the specified \FCaction\F[]. See the manpage section "Action Objects" for a complete explanation of the arguments and behavior. Note that the \FCenv.Action\F[]() form of the invocation will expand construction variables in any argument strings, including the \FCaction\F[] argument, at the time it is called using the construction variables in the \FCenv\F[] construction environment through which \FCenv.Action\F[]() was called. The \FCAction\F[]() form delays all variable expansion until the Action object is actually used.

\FCAddMethod(object, function, [name])\F[] , \FCenv.AddMethod(function, [name])\F[]
    When called with the \FCAddMethod\F[]() form, adds the specified \FCfunction\F[] to the specified \FCobject\F[] as the specified method \FCname\F[]. When called with the \FCenv.AddMethod\F[]() form, adds the specified \FCfunction\F[] to the construction environment \FCenv\F[] as the specified method \FCname\F[]. In both cases, if \FCname\F[] is omitted or \FCNone\F[], the name of the specified \FCfunction\F[] itself is used for the method name. Examples:
    \FC
    # Note that the first argument to the function to
    # be attached as a method must be the object through
    # which the method will be called; the Python
    # convention is to call it 'self'.
    def my_method(self, arg):
        print("my_method() got", arg)
    # Use the global AddMethod() function to add a method
    # to the Environment class.  This
    AddMethod(Environment, my_method)
    env = Environment()
    env.my_method('arg')
    # Add the function as a method, using the function
    # name for the method call.
    env = Environment()
    env.AddMethod(my_method, 'other_method_name')
    env.other_method_name('another arg')
    \F[].fi

\FCAddOption(arguments)\F[]
    This function adds a new command-line option to be recognized.
    The specified
    \FCarguments\F[]
    are the same as supported by the \FCadd_option\F[]
    method in the standard Python library module optparse,
    with a few additional capabilities noted below;
    see the documentation for
    optparse
    for a thorough discussion of its option-processing capabities.
    In addition to the arguments and values supported by the
    \FCoptparse.add_option\F[]()
    method,
    the SCons
    \FCAddOption\F[]
    function allows you to set the
    \FCnargs\F[]
    keyword value to
    \FC'?'\F[]
    (a string with just the question mark)
    to indicate that the specified long option(s) take(s) an
    optional
    argument.
    When
    \FCnargs = '?'\F[]
    is passed to the
    \FCAddOption\F[]
    function, the
    \FCconst\F[]
    keyword argument
    may be used to supply the "default"
    value that should be used when the
    option is specified on the command line
    without an explicit argument.
    If no
    \FCdefault=\F[]
    keyword argument is supplied when calling
    \FCAddOption\F[],
    the option will have a default value of
    \FCNone\F[].
    Unlike regular optparse, option names
    added via \FCAddOption\F[] must be matched
    exactly, the automatic matching of abbreviations on the
    command line for long options is not supported.
    To allow specific abbreviations,
    include them in the \FCAddOption\F[] call.
    Once a new command-line option has been added with
    \FCAddOption\F[],
    the option value may be accessed using
    \FCGetOption\F[]
    or
    \FCenv.GetOption\F[]().
    \FCSetOption\F[] is not currently supported for
    options added with \FCAddOption\F[].
    Any specified
    \FChelp=\F[]
    strings for the new option(s)
    will be displayed by the
    \FC-H\F[]
    or
    \FC-h\F[]
    options
    (the latter only if no other help text is
    specified in the SConscript files).
    The help text for the local options specified by
    \FCAddOption\F[]
    will appear below the SCons options themselves,
    under a separate
    \FCLocal Options\F[]
    heading.
    The options will appear in the help text
    in the order in which the
    \FCAddOption\F[]
    calls occur.
    Example:
    \FC
    AddOption('--prefix',
              dest='prefix',
              nargs=1, type='string',
              action='store',
              metavar='DIR',
              help='installation prefix')
    env = Environment(PREFIX = GetOption('prefix'))
    \F[].fi
    Note
    While \FCAddOption\F[] behaves like
    \FCadd_option\F[],
    from the optparse module,
    the behavior of options added by \FCAddOption\F[]
    which take arguments is underfined in
    scons if whitespace
    (rather than an \FC=\F[] sign) is used as
    the separator on the command line when
    the option is invoked.
    Such usage should be avoided.

\FCAddPostAction(target, action)\F[] , \FCenv.AddPostAction(target, action)\F[]
    Arranges for the specified
    \FCaction\F[]
    to be performed
    after the specified
    \FCtarget\F[]
    has been built.
    The specified action(s) may be
    an Action object, or anything that
    can be converted into an Action object
    See the manpage section "Action Objects"
    for a complete explanation.
    When multiple targets are supplied,
    the action may be called multiple times,
    once after each action that generates
    one or more targets in the list.

\FCAddPreAction(target, action)\F[] , \FCenv.AddPreAction(target, action)\F[]
    Arranges for the specified
    \FCaction\F[]
    to be performed
    before the specified
    \FCtarget\F[]
    is built.
    The specified action(s) may be
    an Action object, or anything that
    can be converted into an Action object
    See the manpage section "Action Objects"
    for a complete explanation.
    When multiple targets are specified,
    the action(s) may be called multiple times,
    once before each action that generates
    one or more targets in the list.
    Note that if any of the targets are built in multiple steps,
    the action will be invoked just
    before the "final" action that specifically
    generates the specified target(s).
    For example, when building an executable program
    from a specified source
    \FC.c\F[]
    file via an intermediate object file:
    \FC
    foo = Program('foo.c')
    AddPreAction(foo, 'pre_action')
    \F[].fi
    The specified
    \FCpre_action\F[]
    would be executed before
    \FCscons\F[]
    calls the link command that actually
    generates the executable program binary
    \FCfoo\F[],
    not before compiling the
    \FCfoo.c\F[]
    file into an object file.

\FCAlias(alias, [targets, [action]])\F[] , \FCenv.Alias(alias, [targets, [action]])\F[]
    Creates one or more phony targets that
    expand to one or more other targets.
    An optional
    \FCaction\F[]
    (command)
    or list of actions
    can be specified that will be executed
    whenever the any of the alias targets are out-of-date.
    Returns the Node object representing the alias,
    which exists outside of any file system.
    This Node object, or the alias name,
    may be used as a dependency of any other target,
    including another alias.
    \FCAlias\F[]
    can be called multiple times for the same
    alias to add additional targets to the alias,
    or additional actions to the list for this alias.
    Examples:
    \FC
    Alias('install')
    Alias('install', '/usr/bin')
    Alias(['install', 'install-lib'], '/usr/local/lib')
    env.Alias('install', ['/usr/local/bin', '/usr/local/lib'])
    env.Alias('install', ['/usr/local/man'])
    env.Alias('update', ['file1', 'file2'], "update_database $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

\FCAllowSubstExceptions([exception, ...])\F[]
    Specifies the exceptions that will be allowed
    when expanding construction variables.
    By default,
    any construction variable expansions that generate a
    \FCNameError\F[]
    or
    \FCIndexError\F[]
    exception will expand to a
    \FC''\F[]
    (a null string) and not cause scons to fail.
    All exceptions not in the specified list
    will generate an error message
    and terminate processing.
    If
    \FCAllowSubstExceptions\F[]
    is called multiple times,
    each call completely overwrites the previous list
    of allowed exceptions.
    Example:
    \FC
    # Requires that all construction variable names exist.
    # (You may wish to do this if you want to enforce strictly
    # that all construction variables must be defined before use.)
    AllowSubstExceptions()
    # Also allow a string containing a zero-division expansion
    # like '${1 / 0}' to evalute to ''.
    AllowSubstExceptions(IndexError, NameError, ZeroDivisionError)
    \F[].fi

\FCAlwaysBuild(target, ...)\F[] , \FCenv.AlwaysBuild(target, ...)\F[]
    Marks each given
    \FCtarget\F[]
    so that it is always assumed to be out of date,
    and will always be rebuilt if needed.
    Note, however, that
    \FCAlwaysBuild\F[]
    does not add its target(s) to the default target list,
    so the targets will only be built
    if they are specified on the command line,
    or are a dependent of a target specified on the command line--but
    they will
    always
    be built if so specified.
    Multiple targets can be passed in to a single call to
    \FCAlwaysBuild\F[].

\FCenv.Append(key=val, [...])\F[]
    Appends the specified keyword arguments
    to the end of construction variables in the environment.
    If the Environment does not have
    the specified construction variable,
    it is simply added to the environment.
    If the values of the construction variable
    and the keyword argument are the same type,
    then the two values will be simply added together.
    Otherwise, the construction variable
    and the value of the keyword argument
    are both coerced to lists,
    and the lists are added together.
    (See also the \FCPrepend\F[] method).
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Append(CCFLAGS = ' -g', FOO = ['foo.yyy'])
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.AppendENVPath(name, newpath, [envname, sep, delete_existing])\F[]
    This appends new path elements to the given path in the
    specified external environment
    (\FCENV\F[]
    by default).
    This will only add
    any particular path once (leaving the last one it encounters and
    ignoring the rest, to preserve path order),
    and to help assure this,
    will normalize all paths (using
    \FCos.path.normpath\F[]
    and
    \FCos.path.normcase\F[]).
    This can also handle the
    case where the given old path variable is a list instead of a
    string, in which case a list will be returned instead of a string.
    If
    \FCdelete_existing\F[]
    is 0, then adding a path that already exists
    will not move it to the end; it will stay where it is in the list.
    Example:
    \FC
    print 'before:',env['ENV']['INCLUDE']
    include_path = '/foo/bar:/foo'
    env.AppendENVPath('INCLUDE', include_path)
    print 'after:',env['ENV']['INCLUDE']
    yields:
    before: /foo:/biz
    after: /biz:/foo/bar:/foo
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.AppendUnique(key=val, [...], delete_existing=0)\F[]
    Appends the specified keyword arguments
    to the end of construction variables in the environment.
    If the Environment does not have
    the specified construction variable,
    it is simply added to the environment.
    If the construction variable being appended to is a list,
    then any value(s) that already exist in the
    construction variable will
    not
    be added again to the list.
    However, if delete_existing is 1,
    existing matching values are removed first, so
    existing values in the arg list move to the end of the list.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.AppendUnique(CCFLAGS = '-g', FOO = ['foo.yyy'])
    \F[].fi

\FCBuilder(action, [arguments])\F[] , \FCenv.Builder(action, [arguments])\F[]
    Creates a Builder object for
    the specified
    \FCaction\F[].
    See the manpage section "Builder Objects"
    for a complete explanation of the arguments and behavior.
    Note that the
    \FCenv.Builder\F[]()
    form of the invocation will expand
    construction variables in any arguments strings,
    including the
    \FCaction\F[]
    argument,
    at the time it is called
    using the construction variables in the
    \FCenv\F[]
    construction environment through which
    \FCenv.Builder\F[]()
    was called.
    The
    \FCBuilder\F[]
    form delays all variable expansion
    until after the Builder object is actually called.

\FCCacheDir(cache_dir)\F[] , \FCenv.CacheDir(cache_dir)\F[]
    Specifies that
    \FCscons\F[]
    will maintain a cache of derived files in
    \FCcache_dir\F[].
    The derived files in the cache will be shared
    among all the builds using the same
    \FCCacheDir\F[]
    call.
    Specifying a
    \FCcache_dir\F[]
    of
    \FCNone\F[]
    disables derived file caching.
    Calling
    \FCenv.CacheDir\F[]()
    will only affect targets built
    through the specified construction environment.
    Calling
    \FCCacheDir\F[]
    sets a global default
    that will be used by all targets built
    through construction environments
    that do
    not
    have an
    \FCenv.CacheDir\F[]()
    specified.
    When a
    \FCCacheDir\F[]()
    is being used and
    \FCscons\F[]
    finds a derived file that needs to be rebuilt,
    it will first look in the cache to see if a
    derived file has already been built
    from identical input files and an identical build action
    (as incorporated into the MD5 build signature).
    If so,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will retrieve the file from the cache.
    If the derived file is not present in the cache,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will rebuild it and
    then place a copy of the built file in the cache
    (identified by its MD5 build signature),
    so that it may be retrieved by other
    builds that need to build the same derived file
    from identical inputs.
    Use of a specified
    \FCCacheDir\F[]
    may be disabled for any invocation
    by using the
    \FC--cache-disable\F[]
    option.
    If the
    \FC--cache-force\F[]
    option is used,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will place a copy of
    all
    derived files in the cache,
    even if they already existed
    and were not built by this invocation.
    This is useful to populate a cache
    the first time
    \FCCacheDir\F[]
    is added to a build,
    or after using the
    \FC--cache-disable\F[]
    option.
    When using
    \FCCacheDir\F[],
    \FCscons\F[]
    will report,
    "Retrieved `file' from cache,"
    unless the
    \FC--cache-show\F[]
    option is being used.
    When the
    \FC--cache-show\F[]
    option is used,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will print the action that
    would
    have been used to build the file,
    without any indication that
    the file was actually retrieved from the cache.
    This is useful to generate build logs
    that are equivalent regardless of whether
    a given derived file has been built in-place
    or retrieved from the cache.
    The
    \FCNoCache\F[] [scons(1)]
    method can be used to disable caching of specific files. This can be
    useful if inputs and/or outputs of some tool are impossible to
    predict or prohibitively large.

\FCClean(targets, files_or_dirs)\F[] , \FCenv.Clean(targets, files_or_dirs)\F[]
    This specifies a list of files or directories which should be removed
    whenever the targets are specified with the
    \FC-c\F[]
    command line option.
    The specified targets may be a list
    or an individual target.
    Multiple calls to
    \FCClean\F[]
    are legal,
    and create new targets or add files and directories to the
    clean list for the specified targets.
    Multiple files or directories should be specified
    either as separate arguments to the
    \FCClean\F[]
    method, or as a list.
    \FCClean\F[]
    will also accept the return value of any of the construction environment
    Builder methods.
    Examples:
    The related
    \FCNoClean\F[] [scons(1)]
    function overrides calling
    \FCClean\F[]
    for the same target,
    and any targets passed to both functions will
    not
    be removed by the
    \FC-c\F[]
    option.
    Examples:
    \FC
    Clean('foo', ['bar', 'baz'])
    Clean('dist', env.Program('hello', 'hello.c'))
    Clean(['foo', 'bar'], 'something_else_to_clean')
    \F[].fi
    In this example,
    installing the project creates a subdirectory for the documentation.
    This statement causes the subdirectory to be removed
    if the project is deinstalled.
    \FC
    Clean(docdir, os.path.join(docdir, projectname))
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.Clone([key=val, ...])\F[]
    Returns a separate copy of a construction environment.
    If there are any keyword arguments specified,
    they are added to the returned copy,
    overwriting any existing values
    for the keywords.
    Example:
    \FC
    env2 = env.Clone()
    env3 = env.Clone(CCFLAGS = '-g')
    \F[].fi
    Additionally, a list of tools and a toolpath may be specified, as in
    the Environment constructor:
    \FC
    def MyTool(env): env['FOO'] = 'bar'
    env4 = env.Clone(tools = ['msvc', MyTool])
    \F[].fi
    The
    \FCparse_flags\F[]
    keyword argument is also recognized to allow merging command-line
    style arguments into the appropriate construction
    variables (see \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[] [scons(1)]).
    \FC
    # create an environment for compiling programs that use wxWidgets
    wx_env = env.Clone(parse_flags='!wx-config --cflags --cxxflags')
    \F[].fi

\FCCommand(target, source, action, [key=val, ...])\F[] , \FCenv.Command(target, source, action, [key=val, ...])\F[]
    Executes a specific action
    (or list of actions)
    to build a target file or files.
    This is more convenient
    than defining a separate Builder object
    for a single special-case build.
    \FCCommand\F[] builder accepts
    \FCsource_scanner\F[],
    \FCtarget_scanner\F[],
    \FCsource_factory\F[], and
    \FCtarget_factory\F[]
    keyword arguments. The *_scanner args can
    be used to specify
    a Scanner object
    that will be used to apply a custom
    scanner for a source or target.
    For example, the global
    \FCDirScanner\F[]
    object can be used
    if any of the sources will be directories
    that must be scanned on-disk for
    changes to files that aren't
    already specified in other Builder of function calls.
    The *_factory args take a factory function that the
    Command will use to turn any sources or targets
    specified as strings into SCons Nodes.
    See the sections "Builder Objects"
    below, for more information about how these
    args work in a Builder.
    Any other keyword arguments specified override any
    same-named existing construction variables.
    An action can be an external command,
    specified as a string,
    or a callable Python object;
    see the manpage section "Action Objects"
    for more complete information.
    Also note that a string specifying an external command
    may be preceded by an
    \FC@\F[]
    (at-sign)
    to suppress printing the command in question,
    or by a
    \FC-\F[]
    (hyphen)
    to ignore the exit status of the external command.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
                "$FOO_BUILD < $SOURCES > $TARGET")
    env.Command('bar.out', 'bar.in',
                ["rm -f $TARGET",
                 "$BAR_BUILD < $SOURCES > $TARGET"],
                ENV={'PATH': '/usr/local/bin/'})
    def rename(env, target, source):
        import os
        os.rename('.tmp', str(target[0]))
    env.Command('baz.out', 'baz.in',
                ["$BAZ_BUILD < $SOURCES > .tmp",
    	     rename])
    \F[].fi
    Note that the
    \FCCommand\F[]
    function will usually assume, by default,
    that the specified targets and/or sources are Files,
    if no other part of the configuration
    identifies what type of entries they are.
    If necessary, you can explicitly specify
    that targets or source nodes should
    be treated as directories
    by using the
    \FCDir\F[] [scons(1)]
    or
    \FCenv.Dir\F[]
    functions.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env.Command('ddd.list', Dir('ddd'), 'ls -l $SOURCE > $TARGET')
    env['DISTDIR'] = 'destination/directory'
    env.Command(env.Dir('$DISTDIR')), None, make_distdir)
    \F[].fi
    Also note that SCons will usually
    automatically create any directory necessary to hold a target file,
    so you normally don't need to create directories by hand.

\FCConfigure(env, [custom_tests, conf_dir, log_file, config_h])\F[] , \FCenv.Configure([custom_tests, conf_dir, log_file, config_h])\F[]
    Creates a Configure object for integrated
    functionality similar to GNU autoconf.
    See the manpage section "Configure Contexts"
    for a complete explanation of the arguments and behavior.

\FCenv.Copy([key=val, ...])\F[]
    A now-deprecated synonym for
    \FCenv.Clone\F[]().

\FCDecider(function)\F[] , \FCenv.Decider(function)\F[]
    Specifies that all up-to-date decisions for
    targets built through this construction environment
    will be handled by the specified
    \FCfunction\F[].
    The
    \FCfunction\F[]
    can be one of the following strings
    that specify the type of decision function
    to be performed:

    \FCtimestamp-newer\F[]
        Specifies that a target shall be considered out of date and rebuilt
        if the dependency's timestamp is newer than the target file's timestamp.
        This is the behavior of the classic Make utility,
        and
        \FCmake\F[]
        can be used a synonym for
        \FCtimestamp-newer\F[].

    \FCtimestamp-match\F[]
        Specifies that a target shall be considered out of date and rebuilt
        if the dependency's timestamp is different than the
        timestamp recorded the last time the target was built.
        This provides behavior very similar to the classic Make utility
        (in particular, files are not opened up so that their
        contents can be checksummed)
        except that the target will also be rebuilt if a
        dependency file has been restored to a version with an
        earlier
        timestamp, such as can happen when restoring files from backup archives.

    \FCMD5\F[]
        Specifies that a target shall be considered out of date and rebuilt
        if the dependency's content has changed since the last time
        the target was built,
        as determined be performing an MD5 checksum
        on the dependency's contents
        and comparing it to the checksum recorded the
        last time the target was built.
        \FCcontent\F[]
        can be used as a synonym for
        \FCMD5\F[].

    \FCMD5-timestamp\F[]
        Specifies that a target shall be considered out of date and rebuilt
        if the dependency's content has changed since the last time
        the target was built,
        except that dependencies with a timestamp that matches
        the last time the target was rebuilt will be
        assumed to be up-to-date and
        not
        rebuilt.
        This provides behavior very similar
        to the
        \FCMD5\F[]
        behavior of always checksumming file contents,
        with an optimization of not checking
        the contents of files whose timestamps haven't changed.
        The drawback is that SCons will
        not
        detect if a file's content has changed
        but its timestamp is the same,
        as might happen in an automated script
        that runs a build,
        updates a file,
        and runs the build again,
        all within a single second.
Examples:
\FC
# Use exact timestamp matches by default.
Decider('timestamp-match')
# Use MD5 content signatures for any targets built
# with the attached construction environment.
env.Decider('content')
\F[].fi
In addition to the above already-available functions,
the
\FCfunction\F[]
argument may be an actual Python function
that takes the following three arguments:

    \FCdependency\F[]
        The Node (file) which
        should cause the
        \FCtarget\F[]
        to be rebuilt
        if it has "changed" since the last tme
        \FCtarget\F[]
        was built.

    \FCtarget\F[]
        The Node (file) being built.
        In the normal case,
        this is what should get rebuilt
        if the
        \FCdependency\F[]
        has "changed."

    \FCprev_ni\F[]
        Stored information about the state of the
        \FCdependency\F[]
        the last time the
        \FCtarget\F[]
        was built.
        This can be consulted to match various
        file characteristics
        such as the timestamp,
        size, or content signature.

    \FCrepo_node\F[]
        Use this node instead of the one specified by
        \FCdependency\F[]
        to determine if the dependency has changed.
The
\FCfunction\F[]
should return a
\FCTrue\F[]
(non-zero)
value if the
\FCdependency\F[]
has "changed" since the last time
the
\FCtarget\F[]
was built
(indicating that the target
should
be rebuilt),
and
\FCFalse\F[]
(zero)
otherwise
(indicating that the target should
not
be rebuilt).
Note that the decision can be made
using whatever criteria are appopriate.
Ignoring some or all of the function arguments
is perfectly normal.
Example:
\FC
def my_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni, repo_node=None):
    return not os.path.exists(str(target))
env.Decider(my_decider)
\F[].fi

\FCDefault(targets)\F[] , \FCenv.Default(targets)\F[]
    This specifies a list of default targets,
    which will be built by
    \FCscons\F[]
    if no explicit targets are given on the command line.
    Multiple calls to
    \FCDefault\F[]
    are legal,
    and add to the list of default targets.
    As noted above, both forms of this call affect the
    same global list of default targets; the
    construction environment method applies
    construction variable expansion to the targets.
    Multiple targets should be specified as
    separate arguments to the
    \FCDefault\F[]
    method, or as a list.
    \FCDefault\F[]
    will also accept the Node returned by any
    of a construction environment's
    builder methods.
    Examples:
    \FC
    Default('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
    env.Default(['a', 'b', 'c'])
    hello = env.Program('hello', 'hello.c')
    env.Default(hello)
    \F[].fi
    An argument to
    \FCDefault\F[]
    of
    \FCNone\F[]
    will clear all default targets.
    Later calls to
    \FCDefault\F[]
    will add to the (now empty) default-target list
    like normal.
    The current list of targets added using the
    \FCDefault\F[]
    function or method is available in the
    \FCDEFAULT_TARGETS\F[]
    list;
    see below.

\FCDefaultEnvironment([**kwargs])\F[]
    Creates and returns the default \FCconstruction environment\F[] object.
    The default \FCconstruction environment\F[] is used internally by SCons
    in order to execute many of the global functions in this list
    (i.e. those not called as methods of a specific
    \FCconstruction environment\F[]), and to fetch source files transparently
    from source code management systems.
    The default environment is a singleton, so the keyword
    arguments affect it only on the first call, on subsequent
    calls the already-constructed object is returned.
    The default environment can be modified in the same way
    as any \FCconstruction environment\F[].

\FCDepends(target, dependency)\F[] , \FCenv.Depends(target, dependency)\F[]
    Specifies an explicit dependency;
    the
    \FCtarget\F[]
    will be rebuilt
    whenever the
    \FCdependency\F[]
    has changed.
    Both the specified
    \FCtarget\F[]
    and
    \FCdependency\F[]
    can be a string
    (usually the path name of a file or directory)
    or Node objects,
    or a list of strings or Node objects
    (such as returned by a Builder call).
    This should only be necessary
    for cases where the dependency
    is not caught by a Scanner
    for the file.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Depends('foo', 'other-input-file-for-foo')
    mylib = env.Library('mylib.c')
    installed_lib = env.Install('lib', mylib)
    bar = env.Program('bar.c')
    # Arrange for the library to be copied into the installation
    # directory before trying to build the "bar" program.
    # (Note that this is for example only.  A "real" library
    # dependency would normally be configured through the $LIBS
    # and $LIBPATH variables, not using an env.Depends() call.)
    env.Depends(bar, installed_lib)
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.Dictionary([vars])\F[]
    Returns a dictionary object
    containing the \FCconstruction variables\F[] in the \FCconstruction environment\F[].
    If there are any arguments specified,
    the values of the specified \FCconstruction variables\F[]
    are returned as a string (if one
    argument) or as a list of strings.
    Example:
    \FC
    cvars = env.Dictionary()
    cc_values = env.Dictionary('CC', 'CCFLAGS', 'CCCOM')
    \F[].fi

\FCDir(name, [directory])\F[] , \FCenv.Dir(name, [directory])\F[]
    This returns a Directory Node,
    an object that represents the specified directory
    \FCname\F[].
    \FCname\F[]
    can be a relative or absolute path.
    \FCdirectory\F[]
    is an optional directory that will be used as the parent directory.
    If no
    \FCdirectory\F[]
    is specified, the current script's directory is used as the parent.
    If
    \FCname\F[]
    is a list, SCons returns a list of Dir nodes.
    Construction variables are expanded in
    \FCname\F[].
    Directory Nodes can be used anywhere you
    would supply a string as a directory name
    to a Builder method or function.
    Directory Nodes have attributes and methods
    that are useful in many situations;
    see manpage section "File and Directory Nodes"
    for more information.

\FCenv.Dump([key])\F[]
    Returns a pretty printable representation of the environment.
    \FCkey\F[],
    if not
    \FCNone\F[],
    should be a string containing the name of the variable of interest.
    This SConstruct:
    \FC
    env=Environment()
    print(env.Dump('CCCOM'))
    \F[].fi
    will print:
    \FC
    '$CC -c -o $TARGET $CCFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $_CPPDEFFLAGS $_CPPINCFLAGS $SOURCES'
    \F[].fi
    While this SConstruct:
    \FC
    env=Environment()
    print(env.Dump())
    \F[].fi
    will print:
    \FC
    { 'AR': 'ar',
      'ARCOM': '$AR $ARFLAGS $TARGET $SOURCES\n$RANLIB $RANLIBFLAGS $TARGET',
      'ARFLAGS': ['r'],
      'AS': 'as',
      'ASCOM': '$AS $ASFLAGS -o $TARGET $SOURCES',
      'ASFLAGS': [],
      ...
    \F[].fi

\FCEnsurePythonVersion(major, minor)\F[] , \FCenv.EnsurePythonVersion(major, minor)\F[]
    Ensure that the Python version is at least
    \FCmajor\F[].\FCminor\F[].
    This function will
    print out an error message and exit SCons with a non-zero exit code if the
    actual Python version is not late enough.
    Example:
    \FC
    EnsurePythonVersion(2,2)
    \F[].fi

\FCEnsureSConsVersion(major, minor, [revision])\F[] , \FCenv.EnsureSConsVersion(major, minor, [revision])\F[]
    Ensure that the SCons version is at least
    \FCmajor.minor\F[],
    or
    \FCmajor.minor.revision\F[].
    if
    \FCrevision\F[]
    is specified.
    This function will
    print out an error message and exit SCons with a non-zero exit code if the
    actual SCons version is not late enough.
    Examples:
    \FC
    EnsureSConsVersion(0,14)
    EnsureSConsVersion(0,96,90)
    \F[].fi

\FCEnvironment([key=value, ...])\F[] , \FCenv.Environment([key=value, ...])\F[]
    Return a new construction environment
    initialized with the specified
    \FCkey\F[]\FC=\F[]\FCvalue\F[]
    pairs.

\FCExecute(action, [strfunction, varlist])\F[] , \FCenv.Execute(action, [strfunction, varlist])\F[]
    Executes an Action object.
    The specified
    \FCaction\F[]
    may be an Action object
    (see manpage section "Action Objects"
    for a complete explanation of the arguments and behavior),
    or it may be a command-line string,
    list of commands,
    or executable Python function,
    each of which will be converted
    into an Action object
    and then executed.
    The exit value of the command
    or return value of the Python function
    will be returned.
    Note that
    \FCscons\F[]
    will print an error message if the executed
    \FCaction\F[]
    fails--that is,
    exits with or returns a non-zero value.
    \FCscons\F[]
    will
    not,
    however,
    automatically terminate the build
    if the specified
    \FCaction\F[]
    fails.
    If you want the build to stop in response to a failed
    \FCExecute\F[]
    call,
    you must explicitly check for a non-zero return value:
    \FC
    Execute(Copy('file.out', 'file.in'))
    if Execute("mkdir sub/dir/ectory"):
        # The mkdir failed, don't try to build.
        Exit(1)
    \F[].fi

\FCExit([value])\F[] , \FCenv.Exit([value])\F[]
    This tells
    \FCscons\F[]
    to exit immediately
    with the specified
    \FCvalue\F[].
    A default exit value of
    \FC0\F[]
    (zero)
    is used if no value is specified.

\FCExport(vars)\F[] , \FCenv.Export(vars)\F[]
    This tells
    \FCscons\F[]
    to export a list of variables from the current
    SConscript file to all other SConscript files.
    The exported variables are kept in a global collection,
    so subsequent calls to
    \FCExport\F[]
    will over-write previous exports that have the same name.
    Multiple variable names can be passed to
    \FCExport\F[]
    as separate arguments or as a list.
    Keyword arguments can be used to provide names and their values.
    A dictionary can be used to map variables to a different name when exported.
    Both local variables and global variables can be exported.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env = Environment()
    # Make env available for all SConscript files to Import().
    Export("env")
    package = 'my_name'
    # Make env and package available for all SConscript files:.
    Export("env", "package")
    # Make env and package available for all SConscript files:
    Export(["env", "package"])
    # Make env available using the name debug:
    Export(debug = env)
    # Make env available using the name debug:
    Export({"debug":env})
    \F[].fi
    Note that the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    function supports an
    \FCexports\F[]
    argument that makes it easier to to export a variable or
    set of variables to a single SConscript file.
    See the description of the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    function, below.

\FCFile(name, [directory])\F[] , \FCenv.File(name, [directory])\F[]
    This returns a
    File Node,
    an object that represents the specified file
    \FCname\F[].
    \FCname\F[]
    can be a relative or absolute path.
    \FCdirectory\F[]
    is an optional directory that will be used as the parent directory.
    If
    \FCname\F[]
    is a list, SCons returns a list of File nodes.
    Construction variables are expanded in
    \FCname\F[].
    File Nodes can be used anywhere you
    would supply a string as a file name
    to a Builder method or function.
    File Nodes have attributes and methods
    that are useful in many situations;
    see manpage section "File and Directory Nodes"
    for more information.

\FCFindFile(file, dirs)\F[] , \FCenv.FindFile(file, dirs)\F[]
    Search for
    \FCfile\F[]
    in the path specified by
    \FCdirs\F[].
    \FCdirs\F[]
    may be a list of directory names or a single directory name.
    In addition to searching for files that exist in the filesystem,
    this function also searches for derived files
    that have not yet been built.
    Example:
    \FC
    foo = env.FindFile('foo', ['dir1', 'dir2'])
    \F[].fi

\FCFindInstalledFiles()\F[] , \FCenv.FindInstalledFiles()\F[]
    Returns the list of targets set up by the
    \FCInstall\F[] [scons(1)]
    or
    \FCInstallAs\F[] [scons(1)]
    builders.
    This function serves as a convenient method to select the contents of
    a binary package.
    Example:
    \FC
    Install( '/bin', [ 'executable_a', 'executable_b' ] )
    # will return the file node list
    # [ '/bin/executable_a', '/bin/executable_b' ]
    FindInstalledFiles()
    Install( '/lib', [ 'some_library' ] )
    # will return the file node list
    # [ '/bin/executable_a', '/bin/executable_b', '/lib/some_library' ]
    FindInstalledFiles()
    \F[].fi

\FCFindPathDirs(variable)\F[]
    Returns a function
    (actually a callable Python object)
    intended to be used as the
    \FCpath_function\F[]
    of a Scanner object.
    The returned object will look up the specified
    \FCvariable\F[]
    in a construction environment
    and treat the construction variable's value as a list of
    directory paths that should be searched
    (like
    $CPPPATH [scons(1)],
    $LIBPATH [scons(1)],
    etc.).
    Note that use of
    \FCFindPathDirs\F[]
    is generally preferable to
    writing your own
    \FCpath_function\F[]
    for the following reasons:
    1) The returned list will contain all appropriate directories
    found in source trees
    (when
    \FCVariantDir\F[] [scons(1)]
    is used)
    or in code repositories
    (when
    \FCRepository\F[]
    or the
    \FC-Y\F[]
    option are used).
    2) scons will identify expansions of
    \FCvariable\F[]
    that evaluate to the same list of directories as,
    in fact, the same list,
    and avoid re-scanning the directories for files,
    when possible.
    Example:
    \FC
    def my_scan(node, env, path, arg):
        # Code to scan file contents goes here...
        return include_files
    scanner = Scanner(name = 'myscanner',
                      function = my_scan,
                      path_function = FindPathDirs('MYPATH'))
    \F[].fi

\FCFindSourceFiles(node='"."')\F[] , \FCenv.FindSourceFiles(node='"."')\F[]
    Returns the list of nodes which serve as the source of the built files.
    It does so by inspecting the dependency tree starting at the optional
    argument
    \FCnode\F[]
    which defaults to the '"."'-node. It will then return all leaves of
    \FCnode\F[].
    These are all children which have no further children.
    This function is a convenient method to select the contents of a Source
    Package.
    Example:
    \FC
    Program( 'src/main_a.c' )
    Program( 'src/main_b.c' )
    Program( 'main_c.c' )
    # returns ['main_c.c', 'src/main_a.c', 'SConstruct', 'src/main_b.c']
    FindSourceFiles()
    # returns ['src/main_b.c', 'src/main_a.c' ]
    FindSourceFiles( 'src' )
    \F[].fi
    As you can see build support files (SConstruct in the above example)
    will also be returned by this function.

\FCFlatten(sequence)\F[] , \FCenv.Flatten(sequence)\F[]
    Takes a sequence (that is, a Python list or tuple)
    that may contain nested sequences
    and returns a flattened list containing
    all of the individual elements in any sequence.
    This can be helpful for collecting
    the lists returned by calls to Builders;
    other Builders will automatically
    flatten lists specified as input,
    but direct Python manipulation of
    these lists does not.
    Examples:
    \FC
    foo = Object('foo.c')
    bar = Object('bar.c')
    # Because `foo' and `bar' are lists returned by the Object() Builder,
    # `objects' will be a list containing nested lists:
    objects = ['f1.o', foo, 'f2.o', bar, 'f3.o']
    # Passing such a list to another Builder is all right because
    # the Builder will flatten the list automatically:
    Program(source = objects)
    # If you need to manipulate the list directly using Python, you need to
    # call Flatten() yourself, or otherwise handle nested lists:
    for object in Flatten(objects):
        print str(object)
    \F[].fi

\FCGetBuildFailures()\F[]
    Returns a list of exceptions for the
    actions that failed while
    attempting to build targets.
    Each element in the returned list is a
    \FCBuildError\F[]
    object
    with the following attributes
    that record various aspects
    of the build failure:
    \FC.node\F[]
    The node that was being built
    when the build failure occurred.
    \FC.status\F[]
    The numeric exit status
    returned by the command or Python function
    that failed when trying to build the
    specified Node.
    \FC.errstr\F[]
    The SCons error string
    describing the build failure.
    (This is often a generic
    message like "Error 2"
    to indicate that an executed
    command exited with a status of 2.)
    \FC.filename\F[]
    The name of the file or
    directory that actually caused the failure.
    This may be different from the
    \FC.node\F[]
    attribute.
    For example,
    if an attempt to build a target named
    \FCsub/dir/target\F[]
    fails because the
    \FCsub/dir\F[]
    directory could not be created,
    then the
    \FC.node\F[]
    attribute will be
    \FCsub/dir/target\F[]
    but the
    \FC.filename\F[]
    attribute will be
    \FCsub/dir\F[].
    \FC.executor\F[]
    The SCons Executor object
    for the target Node
    being built.
    This can be used to retrieve
    the construction environment used
    for the failed action.
    \FC.action\F[]
    The actual SCons Action object that failed.
    This will be one specific action
    out of the possible list of
    actions that would have been
    executed to build the target.
    \FC.command\F[]
    The actual expanded command that was executed and failed,
    after expansion of
    $TARGET [scons(1)],
    $SOURCE [scons(1)],
    and other construction variables.
    Note that the
    \FCGetBuildFailures\F[]
    function
    will always return an empty list
    until any build failure has occurred,
    which means that
    \FCGetBuildFailures\F[]
    will always return an empty list
    while the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    files are being read.
    Its primary intended use is
    for functions that will be
    executed before SCons exits
    by passing them to the
    standard Python
    \FCatexit.register\F[]()
    function.
    Example:
    \FC
    import atexit
    def print_build_failures():
        from SCons.Script import GetBuildFailures
        for bf in GetBuildFailures():
            print("%s failed: %s" % (bf.node, bf.errstr))
    atexit.register(print_build_failures)
    \F[].fi

\FCGetBuildPath(file, [...])\F[] , \FCenv.GetBuildPath(file, [...])\F[]
    Returns the
    \FCscons\F[]
    path name (or names) for the specified
    \FCfile\F[]
    (or files).
    The specified
    \FCfile\F[]
    or files
    may be
    \FCscons\F[]
    Nodes or strings representing path names.

\FCGetLaunchDir()\F[] , \FCenv.GetLaunchDir()\F[]
    Returns the absolute path name of the directory from which
    \FCscons\F[]
    was initially invoked.
    This can be useful when using the
    \FC-u\F[],
    \FC-U\F[]
    or
    \FC-D\F[]
    options, which internally
    change to the directory in which the
    \FCSConstruct\F[]
    file is found.

\FCGetOption(name)\F[] , \FCenv.GetOption(name)\F[]
    This function provides a way to query the value of
    SCons options set on scons command line
    (or set using the
    \FCSetOption\F[] [scons(1)]
    function).
    The options supported are:

    \FCcache_debug\F[]
        which corresponds to --cache-debug;

    \FCcache_disable\F[]
        which corresponds to --cache-disable;

    \FCcache_force\F[]
        which corresponds to --cache-force;

    \FCcache_show\F[]
        which corresponds to --cache-show;

    \FCclean\F[]
        which corresponds to -c, --clean and --remove;

    \FCconfig\F[]
        which corresponds to --config;

    \FCdirectory\F[]
        which corresponds to -C and --directory;

    \FCdiskcheck\F[]
        which corresponds to --diskcheck

    \FCduplicate\F[]
        which corresponds to --duplicate;

    \FCfile\F[]
        which corresponds to -f, --file, --makefile and --sconstruct;

    \FChelp\F[]
        which corresponds to -h and --help;

    \FCignore_errors\F[]
        which corresponds to --ignore-errors;

    \FCimplicit_cache\F[]
        which corresponds to --implicit-cache;

    \FCimplicit_deps_changed\F[]
        which corresponds to --implicit-deps-changed;

    \FCimplicit_deps_unchanged\F[]
        which corresponds to --implicit-deps-unchanged;

    \FCinteractive\F[]
        which corresponds to --interact and --interactive;

    \FCkeep_going\F[]
        which corresponds to -k and --keep-going;

    \FCmax_drift\F[]
        which corresponds to --max-drift;

    \FCno_exec\F[]
        which corresponds to -n, --no-exec, --just-print, --dry-run and --recon;

    \FCno_site_dir\F[]
        which corresponds to --no-site-dir;

    \FCnum_jobs\F[]
        which corresponds to -j and --jobs;

    \FCprofile_file\F[]
        which corresponds to --profile;

    \FCquestion\F[]
        which corresponds to -q and --question;

    \FCrandom\F[]
        which corresponds to --random;

    \FCrepository\F[]
        which corresponds to -Y, --repository and --srcdir;

    \FCsilent\F[]
        which corresponds to -s, --silent and --quiet;

    \FCsite_dir\F[]
        which corresponds to --site-dir;

    \FCstack_size\F[]
        which corresponds to --stack-size;

    \FCtaskmastertrace_file\F[]
        which corresponds to --taskmastertrace; and

    \FCwarn\F[]
        which corresponds to --warn and --warning.
See the documentation for the
corresponding command line object for information about each specific
option.

\FCGlob(pattern, [ondisk, source, strings, exclude])\F[] , \FCenv.Glob(pattern, [ondisk, source, strings, exclude])\F[]
    Returns Nodes (or strings) that match the specified
    \FCpattern\F[],
    relative to the directory of the current
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    file.
    The
    \FCenv.Glob\F[]()
    form performs string substition on
    \FCpattern\F[]
    and returns whatever matches
    the resulting expanded pattern.
    The specified
    \FCpattern\F[]
    uses Unix shell style metacharacters for matching:
    \FC
      *       matches everything
      ?       matches any single character
      [seq]   matches any character in seq
      [!seq]  matches any char not in seq
    \F[].fi
    If the first character of a filename is a dot,
    it must be matched explicitly.
    Character matches do
    not
    span directory separators.
    The
    \FCGlob\F[]
    knows about
    repositories
    (see the
    \FCRepository\F[] [scons(1)]
    function)
    and source directories
    (see the
    \FCVariantDir\F[] [scons(1)]
    function)
    and
    returns a Node (or string, if so configured)
    in the local (SConscript) directory
    if matching Node is found
    anywhere in a corresponding
    repository or source directory.
    The
    \FCondisk\F[]
    argument may be set to
    \FCFalse\F[]
    (or any other non-true value)
    to disable the search for matches on disk,
    thereby only returning matches among
    already-configured File or Dir Nodes.
    The default behavior is to
    return corresponding Nodes
    for any on-disk matches found.
    The
    \FCsource\F[]
    argument may be set to
    \FCTrue\F[]
    (or any equivalent value)
    to specify that,
    when the local directory is a
    \FCVariantDir\F[],
    the returned Nodes should be from the
    corresponding source directory,
    not the local directory.
    The
    \FCstrings\F[]
    argument may be set to
    \FCTrue\F[]
    (or any equivalent value)
    to have the
    \FCGlob\F[]
    function return strings, not Nodes,
    that represent the matched files or directories.
    The returned strings will be relative to
    the local (SConscript) directory.
    (Note that This may make it easier to perform
    arbitrary manipulation of file names,
    but if the returned strings are
    passed to a different
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    file,
    any Node translation will be relative
    to the other
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    directory,
    not the original
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    directory.)
    The
    \FCexclude\F[]
    argument may be set to a pattern or a list of patterns
    (following the same Unix shell semantics)
    which must be filtered out of returned elements.
    Elements matching a least one pattern of
    this list will be excluded.
    Examples:
    \FC
    Program('foo', Glob('*.c'))
    Zip('/tmp/everything', Glob('.??*') + Glob('*'))
    sources = Glob('*.cpp', exclude=['os_*_specific_*.cpp']) + Glob('os_%s_specific_*.cpp'%currentOS)
    \F[].fi

\FCHelp(text, append=False)\F[] , \FCenv.Help(text, append=False)\F[]
    This specifies help text to be printed if the
    \FC-h\F[]
    argument is given to
    \FCscons\F[].
    If
    \FCHelp\F[]
    is called multiple times, the text is appended together in the order that
    \FCHelp\F[]
    is called. With append set to False, any
    \FCHelp\F[]
    text generated with
    \FCAddOption\F[]
    is clobbered. If append is True, the AddOption help is prepended to the help
    string, thus preserving the
    \FC-h\F[]
    message.

\FCIgnore(target, dependency)\F[] , \FCenv.Ignore(target, dependency)\F[]
    The specified dependency file(s)
    will be ignored when deciding if
    the target file(s) need to be rebuilt.
    You can also use
    \FCIgnore\F[]
    to remove a target from the default build.
    In order to do this you must specify the directory the target will
    be built in as the target, and the file you want to skip building
    as the dependency.
    Note that this will only remove the dependencies listed from
    the files built by default. It will still be built if that
    dependency is needed by another object being built.
    See the third and forth examples below.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env.Ignore('foo', 'foo.c')
    env.Ignore('bar', ['bar1.h', 'bar2.h'])
    env.Ignore('.','foobar.obj')
    env.Ignore('bar','bar/foobar.obj')
    \F[].fi

\FCImport(vars)\F[] , \FCenv.Import(vars)\F[]
    This tells
    \FCscons\F[]
    to import a list of variables into the current SConscript file. This
    will import variables that were exported with
    \FCExport\F[]
    or in the
    \FCexports\F[]
    argument to
    \FCSConscript\F[] [scons(1)].
    Variables exported by
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    have precedence.
    Multiple variable names can be passed to
    \FCImport\F[]
    as separate arguments or as a list. The variable "*" can be used
    to import all variables.
    Examples:
    \FC
    Import("env")
    Import("env", "variable")
    Import(["env", "variable"])
    Import("*")
    \F[].fi

\FCLiteral(string)\F[] , \FCenv.Literal(string)\F[]
    The specified
    \FCstring\F[]
    will be preserved as-is
    and not have construction variables expanded.

\FCLocal(targets)\F[] , \FCenv.Local(targets)\F[]
    The specified
    \FCtargets\F[]
    will have copies made in the local tree,
    even if an already up-to-date copy
    exists in a repository.
    Returns a list of the target Node or Nodes.

\FCenv.MergeFlags(arg, [unique])\F[]
    Merges the specified
    \FCarg\F[]
    values to the construction environment's construction variables.
    If the
    \FCarg\F[]
    argument is not a dictionary,
    it is converted to one by calling
    \FCenv.ParseFlags\F[] [scons(1)]
    on the argument
    before the values are merged.
    Note that
    \FCarg\F[]
    must be a single value,
    so multiple strings must
    be passed in as a list,
    not as separate arguments to
    \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[].
    By default,
    duplicate values are eliminated;
    you can, however, specify
    \FCunique=0\F[]
    to allow duplicate
    values to be added.
    When eliminating duplicate values,
    any construction variables that end with
    the string
    \FCPATH\F[]
    keep the left-most unique value.
    All other construction variables keep
    the right-most unique value.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # Add an optimization flag to $CCFLAGS.
    env.MergeFlags('-O3')
    # Combine the flags returned from running pkg-config with an optimization
    # flag and merge the result into the construction variables.
    env.MergeFlags(['!pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags', '-O3'])
    # Combine an optimization flag with the flags returned from running pkg-config
    # twice and merge the result into the construction variables.
    env.MergeFlags(['-O3',
                   '!pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags --libs',
                   '!pkg-config libpng12 --cflags --libs'])
    \F[].fi

\FCNoCache(target, ...)\F[] , \FCenv.NoCache(target, ...)\F[]
    Specifies a list of files which should
    not
    be cached whenever the
    \FCCacheDir\F[] [scons(1)]
    method has been activated.
    The specified targets may be a list
    or an individual target.
    Multiple files should be specified
    either as separate arguments to the
    \FCNoCache\F[]
    method, or as a list.
    \FCNoCache\F[]
    will also accept the return value of any of the construction environment
    Builder methods.
    Calling
    \FCNoCache\F[]
    on directories and other non-File Node types has no effect because
    only File Nodes are cached.
    Examples:
    \FC
    NoCache('foo.elf')
    NoCache(env.Program('hello', 'hello.c'))
    \F[].fi

\FCNoClean(target, ...)\F[] , \FCenv.NoClean(target, ...)\F[]
    Specifies a list of files or directories which should
    not
    be removed whenever the targets (or their dependencies)
    are specified with the
    \FC-c\F[]
    command line option.
    The specified targets may be a list
    or an individual target.
    Multiple calls to
    \FCNoClean\F[]
    are legal,
    and prevent each specified target
    from being removed by calls to the
    \FC-c\F[]
    option.
    Multiple files or directories should be specified
    either as separate arguments to the
    \FCNoClean\F[]
    method, or as a list.
    \FCNoClean\F[]
    will also accept the return value of any of the construction environment
    Builder methods.
    Calling
    \FCNoClean\F[]
    for a target overrides calling
    \FCClean\F[] [scons(1)]
    for the same target,
    and any targets passed to both functions will
    not
    be removed by the
    \FC-c\F[]
    option.
    Examples:
    \FC
    NoClean('foo.elf')
    NoClean(env.Program('hello', 'hello.c'))
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.ParseConfig(command, [function, unique])\F[]
    Calls the specified
    \FCfunction\F[]
    to modify the environment as specified by the output of
    \FCcommand\F[].
    The default
    \FCfunction\F[]
    is
    \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[] [scons(1)],
    which expects the output of a typical
    *-config
    command
    (for example,
    gtk-config)
    and adds the options
    to the appropriate construction variables.
    By default,
    duplicate values are not
    added to any construction variables;
    you can specify
    \FCunique=0\F[]
    to allow duplicate
    values to be added.
    Interpreted options
    and the construction variables they affect
    are as specified for the
    \FCenv.ParseFlags\F[] [scons(1)]
    method (which this method calls).
    See that method's description
    for a table of options and construction variables.

\FCParseDepends(filename, [must_exist, only_one])\F[] , \FCenv.ParseDepends(filename, [must_exist, only_one])\F[]
    Parses the contents of the specified
    \FCfilename\F[]
    as a list of dependencies in the style of
    Make
    or
    mkdep,
    and explicitly establishes all of the listed dependencies.
    By default,
    it is not an error
    if the specified
    \FCfilename\F[]
    does not exist.
    The optional
    \FCmust_exist\F[]
    argument may be set to a non-zero
    value to have
    scons
    throw an exception and
    generate an error if the file does not exist,
    or is otherwise inaccessible.
    The optional
    \FConly_one\F[]
    argument may be set to a non-zero
    value to have
    scons
    thrown an exception and
    generate an error
    if the file contains dependency
    information for more than one target.
    This can provide a small sanity check
    for files intended to be generated
    by, for example, the
    \FCgcc -M\F[]
    flag,
    which should typically only
    write dependency information for
    one output file into a corresponding
    \FC.d\F[]
    file.
    The
    \FCfilename\F[]
    and all of the files listed therein
    will be interpreted relative to
    the directory of the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    file which calls the
    \FCParseDepends\F[]
    function.

\FCenv.ParseFlags(flags, ...)\F[]
    Parses one or more strings containing
    typical command-line flags for GCC tool chains
    and returns a dictionary with the flag values
    separated into the appropriate SCons construction variables.
    This is intended as a companion to the
    \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[] [scons(1)]
    method, but allows for the values in the returned dictionary
    to be modified, if necessary,
    before merging them into the construction environment.
    (Note that
    \FCenv.MergeFlags\F[]
    will call this method if its argument is not a dictionary,
    so it is usually not necessary to call
    \FCenv.ParseFlags\F[] [scons(1)]
    directly unless you want to manipulate the values.)
    If the first character in any string is
    an exclamation mark (!),
    the rest of the string is executed as a command,
    and the output from the command is
    parsed as GCC tool chain command-line flags
    and added to the resulting dictionary.
    Flag values are translated accordig to the prefix found,
    and added to the following construction variables:
    \FC
    -arch                   CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -D                      CPPDEFINES
    -framework              FRAMEWORKS
    -frameworkdir=          FRAMEWORKPATH
    -fmerge-all-constants   CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -fopenmp                CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -include                CCFLAGS
    -imacros                CCFLAGS
    -isysroot               CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -isystem                CCFLAGS
    -iquote                 CCFLAGS
    -idirafter              CCFLAGS
    -I                      CPPPATH
    -l                      LIBS
    -L                      LIBPATH
    -mno-cygwin             CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -mwindows               LINKFLAGS
    -openmp                 CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -pthread                CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    -std=                   CFLAGS
    -Wa,                    ASFLAGS, CCFLAGS
    -Wl,-rpath=             RPATH
    -Wl,-R,                 RPATH
    -Wl,-R                  RPATH
    -Wl,                    LINKFLAGS
    -Wp,                    CPPFLAGS
    -                       CCFLAGS
    +                       CCFLAGS, LINKFLAGS
    \F[].fi
    Any other strings not associated with options
    are assumed to be the names of libraries
    and added to the
    $LIBS
    construction variable.
    Examples (all of which produce the same result):
    \FC
    dict = env.ParseFlags('-O2 -Dfoo -Dbar=1')
    dict = env.ParseFlags('-O2', '-Dfoo', '-Dbar=1')
    dict = env.ParseFlags(['-O2', '-Dfoo -Dbar=1'])
    dict = env.ParseFlags('-O2', '!echo -Dfoo -Dbar=1')
    \F[].fi

\FCPlatform(string)\F[]
    The
    \FCPlatform\F[]
    form returns a callable object
    that can be used to initialize
    a construction environment using the
    platform keyword of the
    \FCEnvironment\F[]
    function.
    Example:
    \FC
    env = Environment(platform = Platform('win32'))
    \F[].fi
    The
    \FCenv.Platform\F[]
    form applies the callable object for the specified platform
    \FCstring\F[]
    to the environment through which the method was called.
    \FC
    env.Platform('posix')
    \F[].fi
    Note that the
    \FCwin32\F[]
    platform adds the
    \FCSystemDrive\F[]
    and
    \FCSystemRoot\F[]
    variables from the user's external environment
    to the construction environment's
    $ENV [scons(1)]
    dictionary.
    This is so that any executed commands
    that use sockets to connect with other systems
    (such as fetching source files from
    external CVS repository specifications like
    \FC:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/scons\F[])
    will work on Windows systems.

\FCPrecious(target, ...)\F[] , \FCenv.Precious(target, ...)\F[]
    Marks each given
    \FCtarget\F[]
    as precious so it is not deleted before it is rebuilt. Normally
    \FCscons\F[]
    deletes a target before building it.
    Multiple targets can be passed in to a single call to
    \FCPrecious\F[].

\FCenv.Prepend(key=val, [...])\F[]
    Appends the specified keyword arguments
    to the beginning of construction variables in the environment.
    If the Environment does not have
    the specified construction variable,
    it is simply added to the environment.
    If the values of the construction variable
    and the keyword argument are the same type,
    then the two values will be simply added together.
    Otherwise, the construction variable
    and the value of the keyword argument
    are both coerced to lists,
    and the lists are added together.
    (See also the Append method, above.)
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Prepend(CCFLAGS = '-g ', FOO = ['foo.yyy'])
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.PrependENVPath(name, newpath, [envname, sep, delete_existing])\F[]
    This appends new path elements to the given path in the
    specified external environment
    ($ENV
    by default).
    This will only add
    any particular path once (leaving the first one it encounters and
    ignoring the rest, to preserve path order),
    and to help assure this,
    will normalize all paths (using
    \FCos.path.normpath\F[]
    and
    \FCos.path.normcase\F[]).
    This can also handle the
    case where the given old path variable is a list instead of a
    string, in which case a list will be returned instead of a string.
    If
    \FCdelete_existing\F[]
    is 0, then adding a path that already exists
    will not move it to the beginning;
    it will stay where it is in the list.
    Example:
    \FC
    print 'before:',env['ENV']['INCLUDE']
    include_path = '/foo/bar:/foo'
    env.PrependENVPath('INCLUDE', include_path)
    print 'after:',env['ENV']['INCLUDE']
    \F[].fi
    The above example will print:
    \FC
    before: /biz:/foo
    after: /foo/bar:/foo:/biz
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.PrependUnique(key=val, delete_existing=0, [...])\F[]
    Appends the specified keyword arguments
    to the beginning of construction variables in the environment.
    If the Environment does not have
    the specified construction variable,
    it is simply added to the environment.
    If the construction variable being appended to is a list,
    then any value(s) that already exist in the
    construction variable will
    not
    be added again to the list.
    However, if delete_existing is 1,
    existing matching values are removed first, so
    existing values in the arg list move to the front of the list.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.PrependUnique(CCFLAGS = '-g', FOO = ['foo.yyy'])
    \F[].fi

\FCProgress(callable, [interval])\F[] , \FCProgress(string, [interval, file, overwrite])\F[] , \FCProgress(list_of_strings, [interval, file, overwrite])\F[]
    Allows SCons to show progress made during the build
    by displaying a string or calling a function while
    evaluating Nodes (e.g. files).
    If the first specified argument is a Python callable
    (a function or an object that has a
    \FC__call__\F[]()
    method),
    the function will be called
    once every
    \FCinterval\F[]
    times a Node is evaluated.
    The callable will be passed the evaluated Node
    as its only argument.
    (For future compatibility,
    it's a good idea to also add
    \FC*args\F[]
    and
    \FC**kw\F[]
    as arguments to your function or method.
    This will prevent the code from breaking
    if SCons ever changes the interface
    to call the function with additional arguments in the future.)
    An example of a simple custom progress function
    that prints a string containing the Node name
    every 10 Nodes:
    \FC
    def my_progress_function(node, *args, **kw):
        print('Evaluating node %s!' % node)
    Progress(my_progress_function, interval=10)
    \F[].fi
    A more complicated example of a custom progress display object
    that prints a string containing a count
    every 100 evaluated Nodes.
    Note the use of
    \FC\r\F[]
    (a carriage return)
    at the end so that the string
    will overwrite itself on a display:
    \FC
    import sys
    class ProgressCounter(object):
        count = 0
        def __call__(self, node, *args, **kw):
            self.count += 100
            sys.stderr.write('Evaluated %s nodes\r' % self.count)
    Progress(ProgressCounter(), interval=100)
    \F[].fi
    If the first argument
    \FCProgress\F[] [scons(1)]
    is a string,
    the string will be displayed
    every
    \FCinterval\F[]
    evaluated Nodes.
    The default is to print the string on standard output;
    an alternate output stream
    may be specified with the
    \FCfile=\F[]
    argument.
    The following will print a series of dots
    on the error output,
    one dot for every 100 evaluated Nodes:
    \FC
    import sys
    Progress('.', interval=100, file=sys.stderr)
    \F[].fi
    If the string contains the verbatim substring
    $TARGET,
    it will be replaced with the Node.
    Note that, for performance reasons, this is
    not
    a regular SCons variable substition,
    so you can not use other variables
    or use curly braces.
    The following example will print the name of
    every evaluated Node,
    using a
    \FC\r\F[]
    (carriage return) to cause each line to overwritten by the next line,
    and the
    \FCoverwrite=\F[]
    keyword argument to make sure the previously-printed
    file name is overwritten with blank spaces:
    \FC
    import sys
    Progress('$TARGET\r', overwrite=True)
    \F[].fi
    If the first argument to
    \FCProgress\F[]
    is a list of strings,
    then each string in the list will be displayed
    in rotating fashion every
    \FCinterval\F[]
    evaluated Nodes.
    This can be used to implement a "spinner"
    on the user's screen as follows:
    \FC
    Progress(['-\r', '\\\r', '|\r', '/\r'], interval=5)
    \F[].fi

\FCPseudo(target, ...)\F[] , \FCenv.Pseudo(target, ...)\F[]
    This indicates that each given
    \FCtarget\F[]
    should not be created by the build rule, and if the target is created,
    an error will be generated. This is similar to the gnu make .PHONY
    target. However, in the vast majority of cases, an
    \FCAlias\F[]
    is more appropriate.
    Multiple targets can be passed in to a single call to
    \FCPseudo\F[].

\FCPyPackageDir(modulename)\F[] , \FCenv.PyPackageDir(modulename)\F[]
    This returns a Directory Node similar to Dir.
    The python module / package is looked up and if located
    the directory is returned for the location.
    \FCmodulename\F[]
    Is a named python package / module to
    lookup the directory for it's location.
    If
    \FCmodulename\F[]
    is a list, SCons returns a list of Dir nodes.
    Construction variables are expanded in
    \FCmodulename\F[].

\FCenv.Replace(key=val, [...])\F[]
    Replaces construction variables in the Environment
    with the specified keyword arguments.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Replace(CCFLAGS = '-g', FOO = 'foo.xxx')
    \F[].fi

\FCRepository(directory)\F[] , \FCenv.Repository(directory)\F[]
    Specifies that
    \FCdirectory\F[]
    is a repository to be searched for files.
    Multiple calls to
    \FCRepository\F[]
    are legal,
    and each one adds to the list of
    repositories that will be searched.
    To
    \FCscons\F[],
    a repository is a copy of the source tree,
    from the top-level directory on down,
    which may contain
    both source files and derived files
    that can be used to build targets in
    the local source tree.
    The canonical example would be an
    official source tree maintained by an integrator.
    If the repository contains derived files,
    then the derived files should have been built using
    \FCscons\F[],
    so that the repository contains the necessary
    signature information to allow
    \FCscons\F[]
    to figure out when it is appropriate to
    use the repository copy of a derived file,
    instead of building one locally.
    Note that if an up-to-date derived file
    already exists in a repository,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will
    not
    make a copy in the local directory tree.
    In order to guarantee that a local copy
    will be made,
    use the
    \FCLocal\F[] [scons(1)]
    method.

\FCRequires(target, prerequisite)\F[] , \FCenv.Requires(target, prerequisite)\F[]
    Specifies an order-only relationship
    between the specified target file(s)
    and the specified prerequisite file(s).
    The prerequisite file(s)
    will be (re)built, if necessary,
    before
    the target file(s),
    but the target file(s) do not actually
    depend on the prerequisites
    and will not be rebuilt simply because
    the prerequisite file(s) change.
    Example:
    \FC
    env.Requires('foo', 'file-that-must-be-built-before-foo')
    \F[].fi

\FCReturn([vars..., stop=])\F[]
    By default,
    this stops processing the current SConscript
    file and returns to the calling SConscript file
    the values of the variables named in the
    \FCvars\F[]
    string arguments.
    Multiple strings contaning variable names may be passed to
    \FCReturn\F[].
    Any strings that contain white space
    The optional
    \FCstop=\F[]
    keyword argument may be set to a false value
    to continue processing the rest of the SConscript
    file after the
    \FCReturn\F[]
    call.
    This was the default behavior prior to SCons 0.98.
    However, the values returned
    are still the values of the variables in the named
    \FCvars\F[]
    at the point
    \FCReturn\F[]
    is called.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # Returns without returning a value.
    Return()
    # Returns the value of the 'foo' Python variable.
    Return("foo")
    # Returns the values of the Python variables 'foo' and 'bar'.
    Return("foo", "bar")
    # Returns the values of Python variables 'val1' and 'val2'.
    Return('val1 val2')
    \F[].fi

\FCScanner(function, [argument, keys, path_function, node_class, node_factory, scan_check, recursive])\F[] , \FCenv.Scanner(function, [argument, keys, path_function, node_class, node_factory, scan_check, recursive])\F[]
    Creates a Scanner object for
    the specified
    \FCfunction\F[].
    See manpage section "Scanner Objects"
    for a complete explanation of the arguments and behavior.

\FCSConscript(scripts, [exports, variant_dir, duplicate, must_exist])\F[] , \FCenv.SConscript(scripts, [exports, variant_dir, duplicate, must_exist])\F[] , \FCSConscript(dirs=subdirs, [name=script, exports, variant_dir, duplicate, must_exist])\F[] , \FCenv.SConscript(dirs=subdirs, [name=script, exports, variant_dir, duplicate, must_exist])\F[]
    This tells
    \FCscons\F[]
    to execute
    one or more subsidiary SConscript (configuration) files.
    Any variables returned by a called script using
    \FCReturn\F[] [scons(1)]
    will be returned by the call to
    \FCSConscript\F[].
    There are two ways to call the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    function.
    The first way you can call
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    is to explicitly specify one or more
    \FCscripts\F[]
    as the first argument.
    A single script may be specified as a string;
    multiple scripts must be specified as a list
    (either explicitly or as created by
    a function like
    \FCSplit\F[]).
    Examples:
    \FC
    SConscript('SConscript')      # run SConscript in the current directory
    SConscript('src/SConscript')  # run SConscript in the src directory
    SConscript(['src/SConscript', 'doc/SConscript'])
    config = SConscript('MyConfig.py')
    \F[].fi
    The second way you can call
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    is to specify a list of (sub)directory names
    as a
    \FCdirs=\F[]\FCsubdirs\F[]
    keyword argument.
    In this case,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will, by default,
    execute a subsidiary configuration file named
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    in each of the specified directories.
    You may specify a name other than
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    by supplying an optional
    \FCname=\F[]\FCscript\F[]
    keyword argument.
    The first three examples below have the same effect
    as the first three examples above:
    \FC
    SConscript(dirs='.')      # run SConscript in the current directory
    SConscript(dirs='src')    # run SConscript in the src directory
    SConscript(dirs=['src', 'doc'])
    SConscript(dirs=['sub1', 'sub2'], name='MySConscript')
    \F[].fi
    The optional
    \FCexports\F[]
    argument provides a list of variable names or a dictionary of
    named values to export to the
    \FCscript(s)\F[].
    These variables are locally exported only to the specified
    \FCscript(s)\F[],
    and do not affect the global pool of variables used by the
    \FCExport\F[]
    function.
    The subsidiary
    \FCscript(s)\F[]
    must use the
    \FCImport\F[] [scons(1)]
    function to import the variables.
    Examples:
    \FC
    foo = SConscript('sub/SConscript', exports='env')
    SConscript('dir/SConscript', exports=['env', 'variable'])
    SConscript(dirs='subdir', exports='env variable')
    SConscript(dirs=['one', 'two', 'three'], exports='shared_info')
    \F[].fi
    If the optional
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    argument is present, it causes an effect equivalent to the
    \FCVariantDir\F[] [scons(1)]
    method described below.
    (If
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    is not present, the
    \FCduplicate\F[]
    argument is ignored.)
    The
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    argument is interpreted relative to the directory of the calling
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    file.
    See the description of the
    \FCVariantDir\F[]
    function below for additional details and restrictions.
    If
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    is present,
    the source directory is the directory in which the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    file resides and the
    \FCSConscript\F[]
    file is evaluated as if it were in the
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    directory:
    \FC
    SConscript('src/SConscript', variant_dir = 'build')
    \F[].fi
    is equivalent to
    \FC
    VariantDir('build', 'src')
    SConscript('build/SConscript')
    \F[].fi
    This later paradigm is often used when the sources are
    in the same directory as the
    \FCSConstruct\F[]:
    \FC
    SConscript('SConscript', variant_dir = 'build')
    \F[].fi
    is equivalent to
    \FC
    VariantDir('build', '.')
    SConscript('build/SConscript')
    \F[].fi
    The optional
    \FCmust_exist\F[]
    argument, if true, causes an exception to be raised if a requested
    \FCSConscript\F[] file is not found. The current default is false,
    causing only a warning to be omitted, but this behavior is deprecated.
    For scripts which truly intend to be optional, transition to
    explicty supplying
    \FCmust_exist=False\F[] to the call.
    Here are some composite examples:
    \FC
    # collect the configuration information and use it to build src and doc
    shared_info = SConscript('MyConfig.py')
    SConscript('src/SConscript', exports='shared_info')
    SConscript('doc/SConscript', exports='shared_info')
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # build debugging and production versions.  SConscript
    # can use Dir('.').path to determine variant.
    SConscript('SConscript', variant_dir='debug', duplicate=0)
    SConscript('SConscript', variant_dir='prod', duplicate=0)
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # build debugging and production versions.  SConscript
    # is passed flags to use.
    opts = { 'CPPDEFINES' : ['DEBUG'], 'CCFLAGS' : '-pgdb' }
    SConscript('SConscript', variant_dir='debug', duplicate=0, exports=opts)
    opts = { 'CPPDEFINES' : ['NODEBUG'], 'CCFLAGS' : '-O' }
    SConscript('SConscript', variant_dir='prod', duplicate=0, exports=opts)
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # build common documentation and compile for different architectures
    SConscript('doc/SConscript', variant_dir='build/doc', duplicate=0)
    SConscript('src/SConscript', variant_dir='build/x86', duplicate=0)
    SConscript('src/SConscript', variant_dir='build/ppc', duplicate=0)
    \F[].fi

\FCSConscriptChdir(value)\F[] , \FCenv.SConscriptChdir(value)\F[]
    By default,
    \FCscons\F[]
    changes its working directory
    to the directory in which each
    subsidiary SConscript file lives.
    This behavior may be disabled
    by specifying either:
    \FC
    SConscriptChdir(0)
    env.SConscriptChdir(0)
    \F[].fi
    in which case
    \FCscons\F[]
    will stay in the top-level directory
    while reading all SConscript files.
    (This may be necessary when building from repositories,
    when all the directories in which SConscript files may be found
    don't necessarily exist locally.)
    You may enable and disable
    this ability by calling
    SConscriptChdir()
    multiple times.
    Example:
    \FC
    env = Environment()
    SConscriptChdir(0)
    SConscript('foo/SConscript')	# will not chdir to foo
    env.SConscriptChdir(1)
    SConscript('bar/SConscript')	# will chdir to bar
    \F[].fi

\FCSConsignFile([file, dbm_module])\F[] , \FCenv.SConsignFile([file, dbm_module])\F[]
    This tells
    \FCscons\F[]
    to store all file signatures
    in the specified database
    \FCfile\F[].
    If the
    \FCfile\F[]
    name is omitted,
    \FC.sconsign\F[]
    is used by default.
    (The actual file name(s) stored on disk
    may have an appropriated suffix appended
    by the
    \FCdbm_module\F[].)
    If
    \FCfile\F[]
    is not an absolute path name,
    the file is placed in the same directory as the top-level
    \FCSConstruct\F[]
    file.
    If
    \FCfile\F[]
    is
    \FCNone\F[],
    then
    \FCscons\F[]
    will store file signatures
    in a separate
    \FC.sconsign\F[]
    file in each directory,
    not in one global database file.
    (This was the default behavior
    prior to SCons 0.96.91 and 0.97.)
    The optional
    \FCdbm_module\F[]
    argument can be used to specify
    which Python database module
    The default is to use a custom
    \FCSCons.dblite\F[]
    module that uses pickled
    Python data structures,
    and which works on all Python versions.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # Explicitly stores signatures in ".sconsign.dblite"
    # in the top-level SConstruct directory (the
    # default behavior).
    SConsignFile()
    # Stores signatures in the file "etc/scons-signatures"
    # relative to the top-level SConstruct directory.
    SConsignFile("etc/scons-signatures")
    # Stores signatures in the specified absolute file name.
    SConsignFile("/home/me/SCons/signatures")
    # Stores signatures in a separate .sconsign file
    # in each directory.
    SConsignFile(None)
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.SetDefault(key=val, [...])\F[]
    Sets construction variables to default values specified with the keyword
    arguments if (and only if) the variables are not already set.
    The following statements are equivalent:
    \FC
    env.SetDefault(FOO = 'foo')
    if 'FOO' not in env: env['FOO'] = 'foo'
    \F[].fi

\FCSetOption(name, value)\F[] , \FCenv.SetOption(name, value)\F[]
    This function provides a way to set a select subset of the scons command
    line options from a SConscript file. The options supported are:

    \FCclean\F[]
        which corresponds to -c, --clean and --remove;

    \FCduplicate\F[]
        which corresponds to --duplicate;

    \FChelp\F[]
        which corresponds to -h and --help;

    \FCimplicit_cache\F[]
        which corresponds to --implicit-cache;

    \FCmax_drift\F[]
        which corresponds to --max-drift;

    \FCno_exec\F[]
        which corresponds to -n, --no-exec, --just-print, --dry-run and --recon;

    \FCnum_jobs\F[]
        which corresponds to -j and --jobs;

    \FCrandom\F[]
        which corresponds to --random; and

    \FCsilent\F[]
        which corresponds to --silent.

    \FCstack_size\F[]
        which corresponds to --stack-size.
See the documentation for the
corresponding command line object for information about each specific
option.
Example:
\FC
SetOption('max_drift', 1)
\F[].fi

\FCSideEffect(side_effect, target)\F[] , \FCenv.SideEffect(side_effect, target)\F[]
    Declares
    \FCside_effect\F[]
    as a side effect of building
    \FCtarget\F[].
    Both
    \FCside_effect\F[]
    and
    \FCtarget\F[]
    can be a list, a file name, or a node.
    A side effect is a target file that is created or updated
    as a side effect of building other targets.
    For example, a Windows PDB
    file is created as a side effect of building the .obj
    files for a static library,
    and various log files are created updated
    as side effects of various TeX commands.
    If a target is a side effect of multiple build commands,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will ensure that only one set of commands
    is executed at a time.
    Consequently, you only need to use this method
    for side-effect targets that are built as a result of
    multiple build commands.
    Because multiple build commands may update
    the same side effect file,
    by default the
    \FCside_effect\F[]
    target is
    not
    automatically removed
    when the
    \FCtarget\F[]
    is removed by the
    \FC-c\F[]
    option.
    (Note, however, that the
    \FCside_effect\F[]
    might be removed as part of
    cleaning the directory in which it lives.)
    If you want to make sure the
    \FCside_effect\F[]
    is cleaned whenever a specific
    \FCtarget\F[]
    is cleaned,
    you must specify this explicitly
    with the
    \FCClean\F[] [scons(1)]
    or
    \FCenv.Clean\F[]
    function.

\FCSourceCode(entries, builder)\F[] , \FCenv.SourceCode(entries, builder)\F[]
    This function and its associate factory functions are deprecated.
    There is no replacement.
    The intended use was to keep a local tree in sync with an archive,
    but in actuality the function only causes the archive
    to be fetched on the first run.
    Synchronizing with the archive is best done external to SCons.
    Arrange for non-existent source files to
    be fetched from a source code management system
    using the specified
    \FCbuilder\F[].
    The specified
    \FCentries\F[]
    may be a Node, string or list of both,
    and may represent either individual
    source files or directories in which
    source files can be found.
    For any non-existent source files,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will search up the directory tree
    and use the first
    \FCSourceCode\F[]
    builder it finds.
    The specified
    \FCbuilder\F[]
    may be
    \FCNone\F[],
    in which case
    \FCscons\F[]
    will not use a builder to fetch
    source files for the specified
    \FCentries\F[],
    even if a
    \FCSourceCode\F[]
    builder has been specified
    for a directory higher up the tree.
    \FCscons\F[]
    will, by default,
    fetch files from SCCS or RCS subdirectories
    without explicit configuration.
    This takes some extra processing time
    to search for the necessary
    source code management files on disk.
    You can avoid these extra searches
    and speed up your build a little
    by disabling these searches as follows:
    \FC
    env.SourceCode('.', None)
    \F[].fi
    Note that if the specified
    \FCbuilder\F[]
    is one you create by hand,
    it must have an associated
    construction environment to use
    when fetching a source file.
    \FCscons\F[]
    provides a set of canned factory
    functions that return appropriate
    Builders for various popular
    source code management systems.
    Canonical examples of invocation include:
    \FC
    env.SourceCode('.', env.BitKeeper('/usr/local/BKsources'))
    env.SourceCode('src', env.CVS('/usr/local/CVSROOT'))
    env.SourceCode('/', env.RCS())
    env.SourceCode(['f1.c', 'f2.c'], env.SCCS())
    env.SourceCode('no_source.c', None)
    \F[].fi

\FCSplit(arg)\F[] , \FCenv.Split(arg)\F[]
    Returns a list of file names or other objects.
    If arg is a string,
    it will be split on strings of white-space characters
    within the string,
    making it easier to write long lists of file names.
    If arg is already a list,
    the list will be returned untouched.
    If arg is any other type of object,
    it will be returned as a list
    containing just the object.
    Example:
    \FC
    files = Split("f1.c f2.c f3.c")
    files = env.Split("f4.c f5.c f6.c")
    files = Split("""
    	f7.c
    	f8.c
    	f9.c
    """)
    \F[].fi

\FCenv.subst(input, [raw, target, source, conv])\F[]
    Performs construction variable interpolation
    on the specified string or sequence argument
    \FCinput\F[].
    By default,
    leading or trailing white space will
    be removed from the result.
    and all sequences of white space
    will be compressed to a single space character.
    Additionally, any
    \FC$(\F[]
    and
    \FC$)\F[]
    character sequences will be stripped from the returned string,
    The optional
    \FCraw\F[]
    argument may be set to
    \FC1\F[]
    if you want to preserve white space and
    \FC$(\F[]-\FC$)\F[]
    sequences.
    The
    \FCraw\F[]
    argument may be set to
    \FC2\F[]
    if you want to strip
    all characters between
    any
    \FC$(\F[]
    and
    \FC$)\F[]
    pairs
    (as is done for signature calculation).
    If the input is a sequence
    (list or tuple),
    the individual elements of
    the sequence will be expanded,
    and the results will be returned as a list.
    The optional
    \FCtarget\F[]
    and
    \FCsource\F[]
    keyword arguments
    must be set to lists of
    target and source nodes, respectively,
    if you want the
    $TARGET,
    $TARGETS,
    $SOURCE
    and
    $SOURCES
    to be available for expansion.
    This is usually necessary if you are
    calling
    \FCenv.subst\F[]
    from within a Python function used
    as an SCons action.
    Returned string values or sequence elements
    are converted to their string representation by default.
    The optional
    \FCconv\F[]
    argument
    may specify a conversion function
    that will be used in place of
    the default.
    For example, if you want Python objects
    (including SCons Nodes)
    to be returned as Python objects,
    you can use the Python
    Λ
    idiom to pass in an unnamed function
    that simply returns its unconverted argument.
    Example:
    \FC
    print(env.subst("The C compiler is: $CC"))
    def compile(target, source, env):
        sourceDir = env.subst("${SOURCE.srcdir}",
                              target=target,
                              source=source)
    source_nodes = env.subst('$EXPAND_TO_NODELIST',
                             conv=lambda x: x)
    \F[].fi

\FCTag(node, tags)\F[]
    Annotates file or directory Nodes with
    information about how the
    \FCPackage\F[] [scons(1)]
    Builder should package those files or directories.
    All tags are optional.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # makes sure the built library will be installed with 0o644 file
    # access mode
    Tag( Library( 'lib.c' ), UNIX_ATTR="0o644" )
    # marks file2.txt to be a documentation file
    Tag( 'file2.txt', DOC )
    \F[].fi

\FCTool(string, [toolpath, **kw])\F[] , \FCenv.Tool(string, [toolpath, **kw])\F[]
    The
    \FCTool\F[]
    form of the function
    returns a callable object
    that can be used to initialize
    a construction environment using the
    tools keyword of the Environment() method.
    The object may be called with a construction
    environment as an argument,
    in which case the object will
    add the necessary variables
    to the construction environment
    and the name of the tool will be added to the
    $TOOLS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.
    Additional keyword arguments are passed to the tool's
    \FCgenerate\F[]()
    method.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env = Environment(tools = [ Tool('msvc') ])
    env = Environment()
    t = Tool('msvc')
    t(env)  # adds 'msvc' to the TOOLS variable
    u = Tool('opengl', toolpath = ['tools'])
    u(env)  # adds 'opengl' to the TOOLS variable
    \F[].fi
    The
    \FCenv.Tool\F[]
    form of the function
    applies the callable object for the specified tool
    \FCstring\F[]
    to the environment through which the method was called.
    Additional keyword arguments are passed to the tool's
    \FCgenerate\F[]()
    method.
    \FC
    env.Tool('gcc')
    env.Tool('opengl', toolpath = ['build/tools'])
    \F[].fi

\FCValue(value, [built_value])\F[] , \FCenv.Value(value, [built_value])\F[]
    Returns a Node object representing the specified Python value. Value
    Nodes can be used as dependencies of targets. If the result of
    calling
    \FCstr\F[](\FCvalue\F[])
    changes between SCons runs, any targets depending on
    \FCValue\F[](\FCvalue\F[])
    will be rebuilt.
    (This is true even when using timestamps to decide if
    files are up-to-date.)
    When using timestamp source signatures, Value Nodes'
    timestamps are equal to the system time when the Node is created.
    The returned Value Node object has a
    \FCwrite\F[]()
    method that can be used to "build" a Value Node
    by setting a new value.
    The optional
    \FCbuilt_value\F[]
    argument can be specified
    when the Value Node is created
    to indicate the Node should already be considered
    "built."
    There is a corresponding
    \FCread\F[]()
    method that will return the built value of the Node.
    Examples:
    \FC
    env = Environment()
    def create(target, source, env):
        # A function that will write a 'prefix=$SOURCE'
        # string into the file name specified as the
        # $TARGET.
        f = open(str(target[0]), 'wb')
        f.write('prefix=' + source[0].get_contents())
    # Fetch the prefix= argument, if any, from the command
    # line, and use /usr/local as the default.
    prefix = ARGUMENTS.get('prefix', '/usr/local')
    # Attach a .Config() builder for the above function action
    # to the construction environment.
    env['BUILDERS']['Config'] = Builder(action = create)
    env.Config(target = 'package-config', source = Value(prefix))
    def build_value(target, source, env):
        # A function that "builds" a Python Value by updating
        # the the Python value with the contents of the file
        # specified as the source of the Builder call ($SOURCE).
        target[0].write(source[0].get_contents())
    output = env.Value('before')
    input = env.Value('after')
    # Attach a .UpdateValue() builder for the above function
    # action to the construction environment.
    env['BUILDERS']['UpdateValue'] = Builder(action = build_value)
    env.UpdateValue(target = Value(output), source = Value(input))
    \F[].fi

\FCVariantDir(variant_dir, src_dir, [duplicate])\F[] , \FCenv.VariantDir(variant_dir, src_dir, [duplicate])\F[]
    Use the
    \FCVariantDir\F[]
    function to create a copy of your sources in another location:
    if a name under
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    is not found but exists under
    \FCsrc_dir\F[],
    the file or directory is copied to
    \FCvariant_dir\F[].
    Target files can be built in a different directory
    than the original sources by simply refering to the sources (and targets)
    within the variant tree.
    \FCVariantDir\F[]
    can be called multiple times with the same
    \FCsrc_dir\F[]
    to set up multiple builds with different options
    (\FCvariants\F[]).
    The
    \FCsrc_dir\F[]
    location must be in or underneath the SConstruct file's directory, and
    \FCvariant_dir\F[]
    may not be underneath
    \FCsrc_dir\F[].
    The default behavior is for
    \FCscons\F[]
    to physically duplicate the source files in the variant tree.
    Thus, a build performed in the variant tree is guaranteed to be identical
    to a build performed in the source tree even if
    intermediate source files are generated during the build,
    or preprocessors or other scanners search for included files
    relative to the source file,
    or individual compilers or other invoked tools are hard-coded
    to put derived files in the same directory as source files.
    If possible on the platform,
    the duplication is performed by linking rather than copying;
    see also the
    \FC--duplicate\F[]
    command-line option.
    Moreover, only the files needed for the build are duplicated;
    files and directories that are not used are not present in
    \FCvariant_dir\F[].
    Duplicating the source tree may be disabled by setting the
    \FCduplicate\F[]
    argument to
    \FC0\F[]
    (zero).
    This will cause
    \FCscons\F[]
    to invoke Builders using the path names of source files in
    \FCsrc_dir\F[]
    and the path names of derived files within
    \FCvariant_dir\F[].
    This is always more efficient than
    \FCduplicate=1\F[],
    and is usually safe for most builds
    (but see above for cases that may cause problems).
    Note that
    \FCVariantDir\F[]
    works most naturally with a subsidiary SConscript file.
    However, you would then call the subsidiary SConscript file
    not in the source directory, but in the
    \FCvariant_dir\F[],
    regardless of the value of
    \FCduplicate\F[].
    This is how you tell
    \FCscons\F[]
    which variant of a source tree to build:
    \FC
    # run src/SConscript in two variant directories
    VariantDir('build/variant1', 'src')
    SConscript('build/variant1/SConscript')
    VariantDir('build/variant2', 'src')
    SConscript('build/variant2/SConscript')
    \F[].fi
    See also the
    \FCSConscript\F[] [scons(1)]
    function, described above,
    for another way to specify a variant directory
    in conjunction with calling a subsidiary SConscript file.
    Examples:
    \FC
    # use names in the build directory, not the source directory
    VariantDir('build', 'src', duplicate=0)
    Program('build/prog', 'build/source.c')
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # this builds both the source and docs in a separate subtree
    VariantDir('build', '.', duplicate=0)
    SConscript(dirs=['build/src','build/doc'])
    \F[].fi
    \FC
    # same as previous example, but only uses SConscript
    SConscript(dirs='src', variant_dir='build/src', duplicate=0)
    SConscript(dirs='doc', variant_dir='build/doc', duplicate=0)
    \F[].fi

\FCWhereIs(program, [path, pathext, reject])\F[] , \FCenv.WhereIs(program, [path, pathext, reject])\F[]
    Searches for the specified executable
    \FCprogram\F[],
    returning the full path name to the program
    if it is found, else \FCNone\F[].
    Searches the value of the
    \FCpath\F[] keyword argument,
    or if \FCNone\F[] (the default)
    the value of the calling environment's PATH
    (\FCenv['ENV']['PATH']\F[]).
    If \FCpath\F[] is \FCNone\F[] and
    the \FCenv['ENV']['PATH']\F[] key does not exist,
    the user's current external PATH
    (\FCos.environ['PATH']\F[]) is used as fallback.
    On Windows systems, searches for executable
    programs with any of the file extensions listed in the
    \FCpathext\F[] keyword argument,
    or if \FCNone\F[] (the default)
    the calling environment's PATHEXT
    (\FCenv['ENV']['PATHEXT']\F[]).
    The user's current external PATHEXT
    (\FCos.environ['PATHEXT']\F[])
    is used as a fallback if \FCpathext\F[] is
    \FCNone\F[]
    and the key \FCenv['ENV']['PATHEXT']\F[]
    does not exist.
    Will not select any
    path name or names
    in the specified
    \FCreject\F[]
    list, if any.
    Note
    If you would prefer to search
    the user's current external PATH
    (\FCos.environ['PATH']\F[])
    by default,
    consider using the function \FCSCons.Util.WhereIs\F[] instead.
    Note that \FCSCons.Util.WhereIs\F[]
    does not expand environment variables automatically
    (no implicit \FCenv.subst\F[] for its arguments).

  SCONSCRIPT VARIABLES
In addition to the global functions and methods, scons supports a number of Python variables that can be used in SConscript files to affect how you want the build to be performed. These variables may be accessed from custom Python modules that you import into an SConscript file by adding the following to the Python module:

from SCons.Script import *

ARGLIST
    A list keyword=value arguments specified on the command line. Each element in the list is a tuple containing the (keyword,value) of the argument. The separate keyword and value elements of the tuple can be accessed by subscripting for element [0] and [1] of the tuple, respectively. Example:
    print("first keyword, value =", ARGLIST[0][0], ARGLIST[0][1])
    print("second keyword, value =", ARGLIST[1][0], ARGLIST[1][1])
    third_tuple = ARGLIST[2]
    print("third keyword, value =", third_tuple[0], third_tuple[1])
    for key, value in ARGLIST:
        # process key and value

ARGUMENTS
    A dictionary of all the keyword=value arguments specified on the command line. The dictionary is not in order, and if a given keyword has more than one value assigned to it on the command line, the last (right-most) value is the one in the ARGUMENTS dictionary. Example:
    if ARGUMENTS.get('debug', 0):
        env = Environment(CCFLAGS = '-g')
    else:
        env = Environment()

BUILD_TARGETS
    A list of the targets which scons will actually try to build, regardless of whether they were specified on the command line or via the Default() function or method. The elements of this list may be strings or nodes, so you should run the list through the Python str function to make sure any Node path names are converted to strings. Because this list may be taken from the list of targets specified using the Default() function or method, the contents of the list may change on each successive call to Default(). See the DEFAULT_TARGETS list, below, for additional information. Example:
    if 'foo' in BUILD_TARGETS:
        print("Don't forget to test the `foo' program!")
    if 'special/program' in BUILD_TARGETS:
        SConscript('special')

Note that the BUILD_TARGETS list only contains targets expected listed on the command line or via calls to the Default() function or method. It does not contain all dependent targets that will be built as a result of making the sure the explicitly-specified targets are up to date.

COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS
    A list of the targets explicitly specified on the command line. If there are no targets specified on the command line, the list is empty. This can be used, for example, to take specific actions only when a certain target or targets is explicitly being built. Example:
    if 'foo' in COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS:
        print("Don't forget to test the `foo' program!")
    if 'special/program' in COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS:
        SConscript('special')

DEFAULT_TARGETS
    A list of the target nodes that have been specified using the Default() function or method. The elements of the list are nodes, so you need to run them through the Python str function to get at the path name for each Node. Example:
    print(str(DEFAULT_TARGETS[0]))
    if 'foo' in [str(t) for t in DEFAULT_TARGETS]:
        print("Don't forget to test the `foo' program!")

The contents of the DEFAULT_TARGETS list change on on each successive call to the Default() function:

print([str(t) for t in DEFAULT_TARGETS])   # originally []
Default('foo')
print([str(t) for t in DEFAULT_TARGETS])   # now a node ['foo']
Default('bar')
print([str(t) for t in DEFAULT_TARGETS])   # now a node ['foo', 'bar']
Default(None)
print([str(t) for t in DEFAULT_TARGETS])   # back to []

Consequently, be sure to use DEFAULT_TARGETS only after you've made all of your Default() calls, or else simply be careful of the order of these statements in your SConscript files so that you don't look for a specific default target before it's actually been added to the list.

  CONSTRUCTION VARIABLES
A construction environment has an associated dictionary of construction variables that are used by built-in or user-supplied build rules. Construction variables must follow the same rules for Python identifiers: the initial character must be an underscore or letter, followed by any number of underscores, letters, or digits.

A number of useful construction variables are automatically defined by scons for each supported platform, and additional construction variables can be defined by the user. The following is a list of the automatically defined construction variables:

__LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS
    This construction variable automatically introduces $_LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)] if $LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)] is set. Othervise it evaluates to an empty string.

__SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS
    This construction variable automatically introduces $_SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)] if $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] is set. Othervise it evaluates to an empty string.

_APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION
    A macro (by default a generator function) used to create the linker flags to specify apple's linker's -compatibility_version flag. The default generator uses $APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)] and $APPLELINK_NO_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)] and $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] to determine the correct flag.

APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION
    On Mac OS X this is used to set the linker flag: -compatibility_version The value is specified as X[.Y[.Z]] where X is between 1 and 65535, Y can be omitted or between 1 and 255, Z can be omitted or between 1 and 255. This value will be derived from $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] if not specified. The lowest digit will be dropped and replaced by a 0. If the $APPLELINK_NO_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)] is set then no -compatibility_version will be output. See MacOS's ld manpage for more details

_APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION
    A macro (by default a generator function) used to create the linker flags to specify apple's linker's -current_version flag. The default generator uses $APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)] and $APPLELINK_NO_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)] and $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] to determine the correct flag.

APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION
    On Mac OS X this is used to set the linker flag: -current_version The value is specified as X[.Y[.Z]] where X is between 1 and 65535, Y can be omitted or between 1 and 255, Z can be omitted or between 1 and 255. This value will be set to $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] if not specified. If the $APPLELINK_NO_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)] is set then no -current_version will be output. See MacOS's ld manpage for more details

APPLELINK_NO_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION
    Set this to any True (1|True|non-empty string) value to disable adding -compatibility_version flag when generating versioned shared libraries. This overrides $APPLELINK_COMPATIBILITY_VERSION [scons(1)].

APPLELINK_NO_CURRENT_VERSION
    Set this to any True (1|True|non-empty string) value to disable adding -current_version flag when generating versioned shared libraries. This overrides $APPLELINK_CURRENT_VERSION [scons(1)].

AR  The static library archiver.

ARCHITECTURE
    Specifies the system architecture for which the package is being built. The default is the system architecture of the machine on which SCons is running. This is used to fill in the \FCArchitecture:\F[] field in an Ipkg \FCcontrol\F[] file, and the \FCBuildArch:\F[] field in the RPM \FC.spec\F[] file, as well as forming part of the name of a generated RPM package file.

ARCOM
    The command line used to generate a static library from object files.

ARCOMSTR
    The string displayed when an object file is generated from an assembly-language source file. If this is not set, then $ARCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(ARCOMSTR = "Archiving $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

ARFLAGS
    General options passed to the static library archiver.

AS  The assembler.

ASCOM
    The command line used to generate an object file
    from an assembly-language source file.

ASCOMSTR
    The string displayed when an object file
    is generated from an assembly-language source file.
    If this is not set, then $ASCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(ASCOMSTR = "Assembling $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

ASFLAGS
    General options passed to the assembler.

ASPPCOM
    The command line used to assemble an assembly-language
    source file into an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified
    in the $ASFLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.

ASPPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when an object file
    is generated from an assembly-language source file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $ASPPCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(ASPPCOMSTR = "Assembling $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

ASPPFLAGS
    General options when an assembling an assembly-language
    source file into an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    The default is to use the value of $ASFLAGS [scons(1)].

BIBTEX
    The bibliography generator for the TeX formatter and typesetter and the
    LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

BIBTEXCOM
    The command line used to call the bibliography generator for the
    TeX formatter and typesetter and the LaTeX structured formatter and
    typesetter.

BIBTEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating a bibliography
    for TeX or LaTeX.
    If this is not set, then $BIBTEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(BIBTEXCOMSTR = "Generating bibliography $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

BIBTEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the bibliography generator for the TeX formatter
    and typesetter and the LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

BUILDERS
    A dictionary mapping the names of the builders
    available through this environment
    to underlying Builder objects.
    Builders named
    Alias, CFile, CXXFile, DVI, Library, Object, PDF, PostScript, and Program
    are available by default.
    If you initialize this variable when an
    Environment is created:
    \FC
    env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'NewBuilder' : foo})
    \F[].fi
    the default Builders will no longer be available.
    To use a new Builder object in addition to the default Builders,
    add your new Builder object like this:
    \FC
    env = Environment()
    env.Append(BUILDERS = {'NewBuilder' : foo})
    \F[].fi
    or this:
    \FC
    env = Environment()
    env['BUILDERS']['NewBuilder'] = foo
    \F[].fi

CC  The C compiler.

CCCOM
    The command line used to compile a C source file to a (static) object
    file. Any options specified in the $CFLAGS [scons(1)], $CCFLAGS [scons(1)] and
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables are included on this command
    line.

CCCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a C source file
    is compiled to a (static) object file.
    If this is not set, then $CCCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(CCCOMSTR = "Compiling static object $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

CCFLAGS
    General options that are passed to the C and C++ compilers.

CCPCHFLAGS
    Options added to the compiler command line
    to support building with precompiled headers.
    The default value expands expands to the appropriate
    Microsoft Visual C++ command-line options
    when the $PCH [scons(1)] construction variable is set.

CCPDBFLAGS
    Options added to the compiler command line
    to support storing debugging information in a
    Microsoft Visual C++ PDB file.
    The default value expands expands to appropriate
    Microsoft Visual C++ command-line options
    when the $PDB [scons(1)] construction variable is set.
    The Visual C++ compiler option that SCons uses by default
    to generate PDB information is \FC/Z7\F[].
    This works correctly with parallel (\FC-j\F[]) builds
    because it embeds the debug information in the intermediate object files,
    as opposed to sharing a single PDB file between multiple object files.
    This is also the only way to get debug information
    embedded into a static library.
    Using the \FC/Zi\F[] instead may yield improved
    link-time performance,
    although parallel builds will no longer work.
    You can generate PDB files with the \FC/Zi\F[]
    switch by overriding the default $CCPDBFLAGS [scons(1)] variable as follows:
    \FC
    env['CCPDBFLAGS'] = ['${(PDB and "/Zi /Fd%s" % File(PDB)) or ""}']
    \F[].fi
    An alternative would be to use the \FC/Zi\F[]
    to put the debugging information in a separate \FC.pdb\F[]
    file for each object file by overriding
    the $CCPDBFLAGS [scons(1)] variable as follows:
    \FC
    env['CCPDBFLAGS'] = '/Zi /Fd${TARGET}.pdb'
    \F[].fi

CCVERSION
    The version number of the C compiler.
    This may or may not be set,
    depending on the specific C compiler being used.

CFILESUFFIX
    The suffix for C source files.
    This is used by the internal CFile builder
    when generating C files from Lex (.l) or YACC (.y) input files.
    The default suffix, of course, is
    \FC.c\F[]
    (lower case).
    On case-insensitive systems (like Windows),
    SCons also treats
    \FC.C\F[]
    (upper case) files
    as C files.

CFLAGS
    General options that are passed to the C compiler (C only; not C++).

CHANGE_SPECFILE
    A hook for modifying the file that controls the packaging build
    (the \FC.spec\F[] for RPM,
    the \FCcontrol\F[] for Ipkg,
    the \FC.wxs\F[] for MSI).
    If set, the function will be called
    after the SCons template for the file has been written.

CHANGED_SOURCES
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

CHANGED_TARGETS
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

CHANGELOG
    The name of a file containing the change log text
    to be included in the package.
    This is included as the
    \FC%changelog\F[]
    section of the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

_concat
    A function used to produce variables like $_CPPINCFLAGS. It takes
    four or five
    arguments: a prefix to concatenate onto each element, a list of
    elements, a suffix to concatenate onto each element, an environment
    for variable interpolation, and an optional function that will be
    called to transform the list before concatenation.
    \FC
    env['_CPPINCFLAGS'] = '$( ${_concat(INCPREFIX, CPPPATH, INCSUFFIX, __env__, RDirs)} $)',
    \F[].fi

CONFIGUREDIR
    The name of the directory in which
    Configure context test files are written.
    The default is
    \FC.sconf_temp\F[]
    in the top-level directory
    containing the
    \FCSConstruct\F[]
    file.

CONFIGURELOG
    The name of the Configure context log file.
    The default is
    \FCconfig.log\F[]
    in the top-level directory
    containing the
    \FCSConstruct\F[]
    file.

_CPPDEFFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the C preprocessor command-line options
    to define values.
    The value of $_CPPDEFFLAGS is created
    by respectively prepending and appending
    $CPPDEFPREFIX and $CPPDEFSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each definition in $CPPDEFINES.

CPPDEFINES
    A platform independent specification of C preprocessor definitions.
    The definitions will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_CPPDEFFLAGS construction variable (see above),
    which is constructed according to
    the type of value of $CPPDEFINES:
    If $CPPDEFINES is a string,
    the values of the
    $CPPDEFPREFIX and $CPPDEFSUFFIX
    construction variables
    will be respectively prepended and appended to the beginning and end
    of each definition in $CPPDEFINES.
    \FC
    # Will add -Dxyz to POSIX compiler command lines,
    # and /Dxyz to Microsoft Visual C++ command lines.
    env = Environment(CPPDEFINES='xyz')
    \F[].fi
    If $CPPDEFINES is a list,
    the values of the
    $CPPDEFPREFIX and $CPPDEFSUFFIX
    construction variables
    will be respectively prepended and appended to the beginning and end
    of each element in the list.
    If any element is a list or tuple,
    then the first item is the name being
    defined and the second item is its value:
    \FC
    # Will add -DB=2 -DA to POSIX compiler command lines,
    # and /DB=2 /DA to Microsoft Visual C++ command lines.
    env = Environment(CPPDEFINES=[('B', 2), 'A'])
    \F[].fi
    If $CPPDEFINES is a dictionary,
    the values of the
    $CPPDEFPREFIX and $CPPDEFSUFFIX
    construction variables
    will be respectively prepended and appended to the beginning and end
    of each item from the dictionary.
    The key of each dictionary item
    is a name being defined
    to the dictionary item's corresponding value;
    if the value is
    \FCNone\F[],
    then the name is defined without an explicit value.
    Note that the resulting flags are sorted by keyword
    to ensure that the order of the options on the
    command line is consistent each time
    \FCscons\F[]
    is run.
    \FC
    # Will add -DA -DB=2 to POSIX compiler command lines,
    # and /DA /DB=2 to Microsoft Visual C++ command lines.
    env = Environment(CPPDEFINES={'B':2, 'A':None})
    \F[].fi

CPPDEFPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify preprocessor definitions
    on the C compiler command line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each definition
    in the $CPPDEFINES construction variable
    when the $_CPPDEFFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

CPPDEFSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify preprocessor definitions
    on the C compiler command line.
    This will be appended to the end of each definition
    in the $CPPDEFINES construction variable
    when the $_CPPDEFFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

CPPFLAGS
    User-specified C preprocessor options.
    These will be included in any command that uses the C preprocessor,
    including not just compilation of C and C++ source files
    via the $CCCOM [scons(1)],
    $SHCCCOM [scons(1)],
    $CXXCOM [scons(1)] and
    $SHCXXCOM [scons(1)] command lines,
    but also the $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)],
    $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)],
    $F77PPCOM [scons(1)] and
    $SHF77PPCOM [scons(1)] command lines
    used to compile a Fortran source file,
    and the $ASPPCOM [scons(1)] command line
    used to assemble an assembly language source file,
    after first running each file through the C preprocessor.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $CPPPATH [scons(1)].
    See $_CPPINCFLAGS [scons(1)], below,
    for the variable that expands to those options.

_CPPINCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the C preprocessor command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include files.
    The value of $_CPPINCFLAGS is created
    by respectively prepending and appending $INCPREFIX and $INCSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $CPPPATH.

CPPPATH
    The list of directories that the C preprocessor will search for include
    directories. The C/C++ implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in CCFLAGS or CXXFLAGS because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in CPPPATH will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    \FC
    env = Environment(CPPPATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(CPPPATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_CPPINCFLAGS
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    respectively prepending and appending the value of the
    $INCPREFIX and $INCSUFFIX
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $CPPPATH.
    Any command lines you define that need
    the CPPPATH directory list should
    include $_CPPINCFLAGS:
    \FC
    env = Environment(CCCOM="my_compiler $_CPPINCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

CPPSUFFIXES
    The list of suffixes of files that will be scanned
    for C preprocessor implicit dependencies
    (#include lines).
    The default list is:
    \FC
    [".c", ".C", ".cxx", ".cpp", ".c++", ".cc",
     ".h", ".H", ".hxx", ".hpp", ".hh",
     ".F", ".fpp", ".FPP",
     ".m", ".mm",
     ".S", ".spp", ".SPP"]
    \F[].fi

CXX The C++ compiler.

CXXCOM
    The command line used to compile a C++ source file to an object file.
    Any options specified in the $CXXFLAGS [scons(1)] and
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.

CXXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a C++ source file
    is compiled to a (static) object file.
    If this is not set, then $CXXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(CXXCOMSTR = "Compiling static object $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

CXXFILESUFFIX
    The suffix for C++ source files.
    This is used by the internal CXXFile builder
    when generating C++ files from Lex (.ll) or YACC (.yy) input files.
    The default suffix is
    \FC.cc\F[].
    SCons also treats files with the suffixes
    \FC.cpp\F[],
    \FC.cxx\F[],
    \FC.c++\F[],
    and
    \FC.C++\F[]
    as C++ files,
    and files with
    \FC.mm\F[]
    suffixes as Objective C++ files.
    On case-sensitive systems (Linux, UNIX, and other POSIX-alikes),
    SCons also treats
    \FC.C\F[]
    (upper case) files
    as C++ files.

CXXFLAGS
    General options that are passed to the C++ compiler.
    By default, this includes the value of $CCFLAGS [scons(1)],
    so that setting $CCFLAGS affects both C and C++ compilation.
    If you want to add C++-specific flags,
    you must set or override the value of $CXXFLAGS [scons(1)].

CXXVERSION
    The version number of the C++ compiler.
    This may or may not be set,
    depending on the specific C++ compiler being used.

DC  The D compiler to use.

DCOM
    The command line used to compile a D file to an object file.
    Any options specified in the $DFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variable
    is included on this command line.

DDEBUG
    List of debug tags to enable when compiling.

DDEBUGPREFIX
    DDEBUGPREFIX.

DDEBUGSUFFIX
    DDEBUGSUFFIX.

DESCRIPTION
    A long description of the project being packaged.
    This is included in the relevant section
    of the file that controls the packaging build.

DESCRIPTION_lang
    A language-specific long description for
    the specified \FClang\F[].
    This is used to populate a
    \FC%description -l\F[]
    section of an RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

DFILESUFFIX
    DFILESUFFIX.

DFLAGPREFIX
    DFLAGPREFIX.

DFLAGS
    General options that are passed to the D compiler.

DFLAGSUFFIX
    DFLAGSUFFIX.

DINCPREFIX
    DINCPREFIX.

DINCSUFFIX
    DLIBFLAGSUFFIX.

Dir A function that converts a string
    into a Dir instance relative to the target being built.
    A function that converts a string
    into a Dir instance relative to the target being built.

Dirs
    A function that converts a list of strings
    into a list of Dir instances relative to the target being built.

DLIB
    Name of the lib tool to use for D codes.

DLIBCOM
    The command line to use when creating libraries.

DLIBDIRPREFIX
    DLIBLINKPREFIX.

DLIBDIRSUFFIX
    DLIBLINKSUFFIX.

DLIBFLAGPREFIX
    DLIBFLAGPREFIX.

DLIBFLAGSUFFIX
    DLIBFLAGSUFFIX.

DLIBLINKPREFIX
    DLIBLINKPREFIX.

DLIBLINKSUFFIX
    DLIBLINKSUFFIX.

DLINK
    Name of the linker to use for linking systems including D sources.

DLINKCOM
    The command line to use when linking systems including D sources.

DLINKFLAGPREFIX
    DLINKFLAGPREFIX.

DLINKFLAGS
    List of linker flags.

DLINKFLAGSUFFIX
    DLINKFLAGSUFFIX.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_EPUB
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookEpub\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookHtml\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookHtmlChunked\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookHtmlhelp\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookMan\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookPdf\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookSlidesHtml\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF
    The default XSLT file for the \FCDocbookSlidesPdf\F[] [scons(1)] builder within the
    current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.

DOCBOOK_FOP
    The path to the PDF renderer \FCfop\F[] or \FCxep\F[],
    if one of them is installed (\FCfop\F[] gets checked first).

DOCBOOK_FOPCOM
    The full command-line for the
    PDF renderer \FCfop\F[] or \FCxep\F[].

DOCBOOK_FOPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a renderer like \FCfop\F[] or
    \FCxep\F[] is used to create PDF output from an XML file.

DOCBOOK_FOPFLAGS
    Additonal command-line flags for the
    PDF renderer \FCfop\F[] or \FCxep\F[].

DOCBOOK_XMLLINT
    The path to the external executable \FCxmllint\F[], if it's installed.
    Note, that this is only used as last fallback for resolving
    XIncludes, if no libxml2 or lxml Python binding can be imported
    in the current system.

DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOM
    The full command-line for the external executable
    \FCxmllint\F[].

DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOMSTR
    The string displayed when \FCxmllint\F[] is used to resolve
    XIncludes for a given XML file.

DOCBOOK_XMLLINTFLAGS
    Additonal command-line flags for the external executable
    \FCxmllint\F[].

DOCBOOK_XSLTPROC
    The path to the external executable \FCxsltproc\F[]
    (or \FCsaxon\F[], \FCxalan\F[]), if one of them
    is installed.
    Note, that this is only used as last fallback for XSL transformations, if
    no libxml2 or lxml Python binding can be imported in the current system.

DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOM
    The full command-line for the external executable
    \FCxsltproc\F[] (or \FCsaxon\F[],
    \FCxalan\F[]).

DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOMSTR
    The string displayed when \FCxsltproc\F[] is used to transform
    an XML file via a given XSLT stylesheet.

DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCFLAGS
    Additonal command-line flags for the external executable
    \FCxsltproc\F[] (or \FCsaxon\F[],
    \FCxalan\F[]).

DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCPARAMS
    Additonal parameters that are not intended for the XSLT processor executable, but
    the XSL processing itself. By default, they get appended at the end of the command line
    for \FCsaxon\F[] and \FCsaxon-xslt\F[], respectively.

DPATH
    List of paths to search for import modules.

DRPATHPREFIX
    DRPATHPREFIX.

DRPATHSUFFIX
    DRPATHSUFFIX.

DShLibSonameGenerator
    DShLibSonameGenerator.

DSUFFIXES
    The list of suffixes of files that will be scanned
    for imported D package files.
    The default list is:
    \FC
    ['.d']
    \F[].fi

DVERPREFIX
    DVERPREFIX.

DVERSIONS
    List of version tags to enable when compiling.

DVERSUFFIX
    DVERSUFFIX.

DVIPDF
    The TeX DVI file to PDF file converter.

DVIPDFCOM
    The command line used to convert TeX DVI files into a PDF file.

DVIPDFCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a TeX DVI file
    is converted into a PDF file.
    If this is not set, then $DVIPDFCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

DVIPDFFLAGS
    General options passed to the TeX DVI file to PDF file converter.

DVIPS
    The TeX DVI file to PostScript converter.

DVIPSFLAGS
    General options passed to the TeX DVI file to PostScript converter.

ENV A dictionary of environment variables
    to use when invoking commands. When
    $ENV is used in a command all list
    values will be joined using the path separator and any other non-string
    values will simply be coerced to a string.
    Note that, by default,
    \FCscons\F[]
    does
    not
    propagate the environment in force when you
    execute
    \FCscons\F[]
    to the commands used to build target files.
    This is so that builds will be guaranteed
    repeatable regardless of the environment
    variables set at the time
    \FCscons\F[]
    is invoked.
    If you want to propagate your
    environment variables
    to the commands executed
    to build target files,
    you must do so explicitly:
    \FC
    import os
    env = Environment(ENV = os.environ)
    \F[].fi
    Note that you can choose only to propagate
    certain environment variables.
    A common example is
    the system
    PATH
    environment variable,
    so that
    \FCscons\F[]
    uses the same utilities
    as the invoking shell (or other process):
    \FC
    import os
    env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH' : os.environ['PATH']})
    \F[].fi

ESCAPE
    A function that will be called to escape shell special characters in
    command lines. The function should take one argument: the command line
    string to escape; and should return the escaped command line.

F03 The Fortran 03 compiler.
    You should normally set the $FORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $F03 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 03 files.

F03COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 03 source file to an object file.
    You only need to set $F03COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F03COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 03 source file
    is compiled to an object file.
    If this is not set, then $F03COM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F03FILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the F03 dialect will be used. By
    default, this is ['.f03']

F03FLAGS
    General user-specified options that are passed to the Fortran 03 compiler.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $F03PATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_F03INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    below,
    for the variable that expands to those options.
    You only need to set $F03FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

_F03INCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran 03 compiler command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include files.
    The value of $_F03INCFLAGS [scons(1)] is created
    by appending $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F03PATH [scons(1)].

F03PATH
    The list of directories that the Fortran 03 compiler will search for include
    directories. The implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in $F03FLAGS [scons(1)] because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in $F03PATH [scons(1)] will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    You only need to set $F03PATH [scons(1)] if you need to define a specific
    include path for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the include path
    for the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    \FC
    env = Environment(F03PATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(F03PATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_F03INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    appending the values of the
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F03PATH [scons(1)].
    Any command lines you define that need
    the F03PATH directory list should
    include $_F03INCFLAGS [scons(1)]:
    \FC
    env = Environment(F03COM="my_compiler $_F03INCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

F03PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 03 source file to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $F03FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $F03PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F03PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 03 source file
    is compiled to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $F03PPCOM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F03PPFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the compilation + preprocessor pass for
    F03 dialect will be used. By default, this is empty

F08 The Fortran 08 compiler.
    You should normally set the $FORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $F08 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 08 files.

F08COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 08 source file to an object file.
    You only need to set $F08COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F08COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 08 source file
    is compiled to an object file.
    If this is not set, then $F08COM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F08FILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the F08 dialect will be used. By
    default, this is ['.f08']

F08FLAGS
    General user-specified options that are passed to the Fortran 08 compiler.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $F08PATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_F08INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    below,
    for the variable that expands to those options.
    You only need to set $F08FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

_F08INCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran 08 compiler command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include files.
    The value of $_F08INCFLAGS [scons(1)] is created
    by appending $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F08PATH [scons(1)].

F08PATH
    The list of directories that the Fortran 08 compiler will search for include
    directories. The implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in $F08FLAGS [scons(1)] because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in $F08PATH [scons(1)] will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    You only need to set $F08PATH [scons(1)] if you need to define a specific
    include path for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the include path
    for the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    \FC
    env = Environment(F08PATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(F08PATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_F08INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    appending the values of the
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F08PATH [scons(1)].
    Any command lines you define that need
    the F08PATH directory list should
    include $_F08INCFLAGS [scons(1)]:
    \FC
    env = Environment(F08COM="my_compiler $_F08INCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

F08PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 08 source file to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $F08FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $F08PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F08PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 08 source file
    is compiled to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $F08PPCOM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F08PPFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the compilation + preprocessor pass for
    F08 dialect will be used. By default, this is empty

F77 The Fortran 77 compiler.
    You should normally set the $FORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $F77 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 77 files.

F77COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 77 source file to an object file.
    You only need to set $F77COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F77COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 77 source file
    is compiled to an object file.
    If this is not set, then $F77COM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F77FILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the F77 dialect will be used. By
    default, this is ['.f77']

F77FLAGS
    General user-specified options that are passed to the Fortran 77 compiler.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $F77PATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_F77INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    below,
    for the variable that expands to those options.
    You only need to set $F77FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

_F77INCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran 77 compiler command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include files.
    The value of $_F77INCFLAGS [scons(1)] is created
    by appending $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F77PATH [scons(1)].

F77PATH
    The list of directories that the Fortran 77 compiler will search for include
    directories. The implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in $F77FLAGS [scons(1)] because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in $F77PATH [scons(1)] will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    You only need to set $F77PATH [scons(1)] if you need to define a specific
    include path for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the include path
    for the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    \FC
    env = Environment(F77PATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(F77PATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_F77INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    appending the values of the
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F77PATH [scons(1)].
    Any command lines you define that need
    the F77PATH directory list should
    include $_F77INCFLAGS [scons(1)]:
    \FC
    env = Environment(F77COM="my_compiler $_F77INCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

F77PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 77 source file to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $F77FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $F77PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F77PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 77 source file
    is compiled to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $F77PPCOM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F77PPFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the compilation + preprocessor pass for
    F77 dialect will be used. By default, this is empty

F90 The Fortran 90 compiler.
    You should normally set the $FORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $F90 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 90 files.

F90COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 90 source file to an object file.
    You only need to set $F90COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F90COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 90 source file
    is compiled to an object file.
    If this is not set, then $F90COM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F90FILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the F90 dialect will be used. By
    default, this is ['.f90']

F90FLAGS
    General user-specified options that are passed to the Fortran 90 compiler.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $F90PATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_F90INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    below,
    for the variable that expands to those options.
    You only need to set $F90FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

_F90INCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran 90 compiler command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include files.
    The value of $_F90INCFLAGS [scons(1)] is created
    by appending $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F90PATH [scons(1)].

F90PATH
    The list of directories that the Fortran 90 compiler will search for include
    directories. The implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in $F90FLAGS [scons(1)] because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in $F90PATH [scons(1)] will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    You only need to set $F90PATH [scons(1)] if you need to define a specific
    include path for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the include path
    for the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    \FC
    env = Environment(F90PATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(F90PATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_F90INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    appending the values of the
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F90PATH [scons(1)].
    Any command lines you define that need
    the F90PATH directory list should
    include $_F90INCFLAGS [scons(1)]:
    \FC
    env = Environment(F90COM="my_compiler $_F90INCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

F90PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 90 source file to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $F90FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $F90PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F90PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 90 source file
    is compiled after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $F90PPCOM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F90PPFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the compilation + preprocessor pass for
    F90 dialect will be used. By default, this is empty

F95 The Fortran 95 compiler.
    You should normally set the $FORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $F95 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 95 files.

F95COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 95 source file to an object file.
    You only need to set $F95COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F95COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 95 source file
    is compiled to an object file.
    If this is not set, then $F95COM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F95FILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the F95 dialect will be used. By
    default, this is ['.f95']

F95FLAGS
    General user-specified options that are passed to the Fortran 95 compiler.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $F95PATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_F95INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    below,
    for the variable that expands to those options.
    You only need to set $F95FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

_F95INCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran 95 compiler command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include files.
    The value of $_F95INCFLAGS [scons(1)] is created
    by appending $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F95PATH [scons(1)].

F95PATH
    The list of directories that the Fortran 95 compiler will search for include
    directories. The implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in $F95FLAGS [scons(1)] because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in $F95PATH [scons(1)] will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    You only need to set $F95PATH [scons(1)] if you need to define a specific
    include path for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the include path
    for the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    \FC
    env = Environment(F95PATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(F95PATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_F95INCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    appending the values of the
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $F95PATH [scons(1)].
    Any command lines you define that need
    the F95PATH directory list should
    include $_F95INCFLAGS [scons(1)]:
    \FC
    env = Environment(F95COM="my_compiler $_F95INCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

F95PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 95 source file to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $F95FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $F95PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

F95PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 95 source file
    is compiled to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $F95PPCOM [scons(1)] or $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

F95PPFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the compilation + preprocessor pass for
    F95 dialect will be used. By default, this is empty

File
    A function that converts a string into a File instance relative to the
    target being built.
    A function that converts a string into a File instance relative to the
    target being built.

FORTRAN
    The default Fortran compiler
    for all versions of Fortran.

FORTRANCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran source file to an object file.
    By default, any options specified
    in the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)], and
    $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.

FORTRANCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran source file
    is compiled to an object file.
    If this is not set, then $FORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

FORTRANFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the FORTRAN dialect will be used. By
    default, this is ['.f', '.for', '.ftn']

FORTRANFLAGS
    General user-specified options that are passed to the Fortran compiler.
    Note that this variable does
    not
    contain
    \FC-I\F[]
    (or similar) include or module search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)] and $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)],
    below,
    for the variables that expand those options.

_FORTRANINCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran compiler command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for include
    files and module files.
    The value of $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)] is created
    by respectively prepending and appending
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)].

FORTRANMODDIR
    Directory location where the Fortran compiler should place
    any module files it generates. This variable is empty, by default. Some
    Fortran compilers will internally append this directory in the search path
    for module files, as well.

FORTRANMODDIRPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify a module directory on the Fortran compiler command
    line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of the directory
    in the $FORTRANMODDIR [scons(1)] construction variables
    when the $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)] variables is automatically generated.

FORTRANMODDIRSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify a module directory on the Fortran compiler command
    line.
    This will be appended to the end of the directory
    in the $FORTRANMODDIR [scons(1)] construction variables
    when the $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)] variables is automatically generated.

_FORTRANMODFLAG
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the Fortran compiler command-line option
    for specifying the directory location where the Fortran
    compiler should place any module files that happen to get
    generated during compilation.
    The value of $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)] is created
    by respectively prepending and appending
    $FORTRANMODDIRPREFIX [scons(1)] and $FORTRANMODDIRSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to the beginning and end of the directory in $FORTRANMODDIR [scons(1)].

FORTRANMODPREFIX
    The module file prefix used by the Fortran compiler. SCons assumes that
    the Fortran compiler follows the quasi-standard naming convention for
    module files of
    \FCmodule_name.mod\F[].
    As a result, this variable is left empty, by default. For situations in
    which the compiler does not necessarily follow the normal convention,
    the user may use this variable. Its value will be appended to every
    module file name as scons attempts to resolve dependencies.

FORTRANMODSUFFIX
    The module file suffix used by the Fortran compiler. SCons assumes that
    the Fortran compiler follows the quasi-standard naming convention for
    module files of
    \FCmodule_name.mod\F[].
    As a result, this variable is set to ".mod", by default. For situations
    in which the compiler does not necessarily follow the normal convention,
    the user may use this variable. Its value will be appended to every
    module file name as scons attempts to resolve dependencies.

FORTRANPATH
    The list of directories that the Fortran compiler will search for
    include files and (for some compilers) module files. The Fortran implicit
    dependency scanner will search these directories for include files (but
    not module files since they are autogenerated and, as such, may not
    actually exist at the time the scan takes place). Don't explicitly put
    include directory arguments in FORTRANFLAGS because the result will be
    non-portable and the directories will not be searched by the dependency
    scanner. Note: directory names in FORTRANPATH will be looked-up relative
    to the SConscript directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    \FC
    env = Environment(FORTRANPATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(FORTRANPATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    respectively prepending and appending the values of the
    $INCPREFIX [scons(1)] and $INCSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $FORTRANPATH [scons(1)].
    Any command lines you define that need
    the FORTRANPATH directory list should
    include $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)]:
    \FC
    env = Environment(FORTRANCOM="my_compiler $_FORTRANINCFLAGS -c -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

FORTRANPPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran source file to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    By default, any options specified in the $FORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $_CPPDEFFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $_FORTRANMODFLAG [scons(1)], and
    $_FORTRANINCFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variables are included on this command line.

FORTRANPPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran source file
    is compiled to an object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $FORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

FORTRANPPFILESUFFIXES
    The list of file extensions for which the compilation + preprocessor pass for
    FORTRAN dialect will be used. By default, this is ['.fpp', '.FPP']

FORTRANSUFFIXES
    The list of suffixes of files that will be scanned
    for Fortran implicit dependencies
    (INCLUDE lines and USE statements).
    The default list is:
    \FC
    [".f", ".F", ".for", ".FOR", ".ftn", ".FTN", ".fpp", ".FPP",
    ".f77", ".F77", ".f90", ".F90", ".f95", ".F95"]
    \F[].fi

FRAMEWORKPATH
    On Mac OS X with gcc,
    a list containing the paths to search for frameworks.
    Used by the compiler to find framework-style includes like
    #include <Fmwk/Header.h>.
    Used by the linker to find user-specified frameworks when linking (see
    $FRAMEWORKS [scons(1)]).
    For example:
    \FC
                    env.AppendUnique(FRAMEWORKPATH='#myframeworkdir')
                \F[]
    will add
    \FC
                    ... -Fmyframeworkdir
                \F[]
    to the compiler and linker command lines.

_FRAMEWORKPATH
    On Mac OS X with gcc, an automatically-generated construction variable containing the linker command-line options corresponding to $FRAMEWORKPATH [scons(1)].

FRAMEWORKPATHPREFIX
    On Mac OS X with gcc, the prefix to be used for the FRAMEWORKPATH entries. (see $FRAMEWORKPATH [scons(1)]). The default value is \FC-F\F[].

FRAMEWORKPREFIX
    On Mac OS X with gcc, the prefix to be used for linking in frameworks (see $FRAMEWORKS [scons(1)]). The default value is \FC-framework\F[].

_FRAMEWORKS
    On Mac OS X with gcc, an automatically-generated construction variable containing the linker command-line options for linking with FRAMEWORKS.

FRAMEWORKS
    On Mac OS X with gcc, a list of the framework names to be linked into a program or shared library or bundle. The default value is the empty list. For example:
    \FC
                    env.AppendUnique(FRAMEWORKS=Split('System Cocoa SystemConfiguration'))
                \F[]

FRAMEWORKSFLAGS
    On Mac OS X with gcc, general user-supplied frameworks options to be added at the end of a command line building a loadable module. (This has been largely superseded by the $FRAMEWORKPATH [scons(1)], $FRAMEWORKPATHPREFIX [scons(1)], $FRAMEWORKPREFIX [scons(1)] and $FRAMEWORKS [scons(1)] variables described above.)

GS  The Ghostscript program used, e.g. to convert PostScript to PDF files.

GSCOM
    The full Ghostscript command line used for the conversion process. Its default value is ‘\FC$GS $GSFLAGS -sOutputFile=$TARGET $SOURCES\F[]’.

GSCOMSTR
    The string displayed when Ghostscript is called for the conversion process. If this is not set (the default), then $GSCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

GSFLAGS
    General options passed to the Ghostscript program, when converting PostScript to PDF files for example. Its default value is ‘\FC-dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite\F[]’

HOST_ARCH
    The name of the host hardware architecture used to create the Environment. If a platform is specified when creating the Environment, then that Platform's logic will handle setting this value. This value is immutable, and should not be changed by the user after the Environment is initialized. Currently only set for Win32. Sets the host architecture for Visual Studio compiler. If not set, default to the detected host architecture: note that this may depend on the python you are using. This variable must be passed as an argument to the Environment() constructor; setting it later has no effect. Valid values are the same as for $TARGET_ARCH. This is currently only used on Windows, but in the future it will be used on other OSes as well.

HOST_OS
    The name of the host operating system used to create the Environment. If a platform is specified when creating the Environment, then that Platform's logic will handle setting this value. This value is immutable, and should not be changed by the user after the Environment is initialized. Currently only set for Win32.

IDLSUFFIXES
    The list of suffixes of files that will be scanned for IDL implicit dependencies (#include or import lines). The default list is:
    \FC
    [".idl", ".IDL"]
    \F[].fi

IMPLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS
    Used to override $SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS [scons(1)]/$LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS [scons(1)] when
    creating versioned import library for a shared library/loadable module. If not defined,
    then $SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS [scons(1)]/$LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS [scons(1)] is used to determine
    whether to disable symlink generation or not.

IMPLIBPREFIX
    The prefix used for import library names. For example, cygwin uses import
    libraries (\FClibfoo.dll.a\F[]) in pair with dynamic libraries
    (\FCcygfoo.dll\F[]). The \FCcyglink\F[] [scons(1)] linker sets
    $IMPLIBPREFIX [scons(1)] to \FC'lib'\F[] and $SHLIBPREFIX [scons(1)]
    to \FC'cyg'\F[].

IMPLIBSUFFIX
    The suffix used for import library names. For example, cygwin uses import
    libraries (\FClibfoo.dll.a\F[]) in pair with dynamic libraries
    (\FCcygfoo.dll\F[]). The \FCcyglink\F[] [scons(1)] linker sets
    $IMPLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)] to \FC'.dll.a'\F[] and $SHLIBSUFFIX [scons(1)]
    to \FC'.dll'\F[].

IMPLIBVERSION
    Used to override $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)]/$LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)] when
    generating versioned import library for a shared library/loadable module. If
    undefined, the $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)]/$LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)] is used to
    determine the version of versioned import library.

IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES
    Controls whether or not SCons will
    add implicit dependencies for the commands
    executed to build targets.
    By default, SCons will add
    to each target
    an implicit dependency on the command
    represented by the first argument on any
    command line it executes.
    The specific file for the dependency is
    found by searching the
    \FCPATH\F[]
    variable in the
    \FCENV\F[]
    environment used to execute the command.
    If the construction variable
    $IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES
    is set to a false value
    (\FCNone\F[],
    \FCFalse\F[],
    \FC0\F[],
    etc.),
    then the implicit dependency will
    not be added to the targets
    built with that construction environment.
    \FC
    env = Environment(IMPLICIT_COMMAND_DEPENDENCIES = 0)
    \F[].fi

INCPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify an include directory on the C compiler command
    line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each directory
    in the $CPPPATH and $FORTRANPATH construction variables
    when the $_CPPINCFLAGS and $_FORTRANINCFLAGS
    variables are automatically generated.

INCSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify an include directory on the C compiler command
    line.
    This will be appended to the end of each directory
    in the $CPPPATH and $FORTRANPATH construction variables
    when the $_CPPINCFLAGS and $_FORTRANINCFLAGS
    variables are automatically generated.

INSTALL
    A function to be called to install a file into a
    destination file name.
    The default function copies the file into the destination
    (and sets the destination file's mode and permission bits
    to match the source file's).
    The function takes the following arguments:
    \FC
    def install(dest, source, env):
    \F[].fi
    \FCdest\F[]
    is the path name of the destination file.
    \FCsource\F[]
    is the path name of the source file.
    \FCenv\F[]
    is the construction environment
    (a dictionary of construction values)
    in force for this file installation.

INSTALLSTR
    The string displayed when a file is
    installed into a destination file name.
    The default is:
    \FC
    Install file: "$SOURCE" as "$TARGET"
    \F[].fi

INTEL_C_COMPILER_VERSION
    Set by the "intelc" Tool
    to the major version number of the Intel C compiler
    selected for use.

JAR The Java archive tool.
    The Java archive tool.

JARCHDIR
    The directory to which the Java archive tool should change
    (using the
    \FC-C\F[]
    option).
    The directory to which the Java archive tool should change
    (using the
    \FC-C\F[]
    option).

JARCOM
    The command line used to call the Java archive tool.
    The command line used to call the Java archive tool.

JARCOMSTR
    The string displayed when the Java archive tool
    is called
    If this is not set, then $JARCOM (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(JARCOMSTR = "JARchiving $SOURCES into $TARGET")
    \F[].fi
    The string displayed when the Java archive tool
    is called
    If this is not set, then $JARCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(JARCOMSTR = "JARchiving $SOURCES into $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

JARFLAGS
    General options passed to the Java archive tool.
    By default this is set to
    \FCcf\F[]
    to create the necessary
    jar
    file.
    General options passed to the Java archive tool.
    By default this is set to
    \FCcf\F[]
    to create the necessary
    jar
    file.

JARSUFFIX
    The suffix for Java archives:
    \FC.jar\F[]
    by default.
    The suffix for Java archives:
    \FC.jar\F[]
    by default.

JAVABOOTCLASSPATH
    Specifies the list of directories that
    will be added to the
    javac command line
    via the \FC-bootclasspath\F[] option.
    The individual directory names will be
    separated by the operating system's path separate character
    (\FC:\F[] on UNIX/Linux/POSIX,
    \FC;\F[]
    on Windows).

JAVAC
    The Java compiler.

JAVACCOM
    The command line used to compile a directory tree containing
    Java source files to
    corresponding Java class files.
    Any options specified in the $JAVACFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variable
    are included on this command line.

JAVACCOMSTR
    The string displayed when compiling
    a directory tree of Java source files to
    corresponding Java class files.
    If this is not set, then $JAVACCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
                    env = Environment(JAVACCOMSTR = "Compiling class files $TARGETS from $SOURCES")
                \F[]

JAVACFLAGS
    General options that are passed to the Java compiler.

JAVACLASSDIR
    The directory in which Java class files may be found. This is stripped from the beginning of any Java .class file names supplied to the \FCJavaH\F[] builder.

JAVACLASSPATH
    Specifies the list of directories that will be searched for Java \FC.class\F[] file. The directories in this list will be added to the javac and javah command lines via the \FC-classpath\F[] option. The individual directory names will be separated by the operating system's path separate character (\FC:\F[] on UNIX/Linux/POSIX, \FC;\F[] on Windows). Note that this currently just adds the specified directory via the \FC-classpath\F[] option. SCons does not currently search the $JAVACLASSPATH directories for dependency \FC.class\F[] files.

JAVACLASSSUFFIX
    The suffix for Java class files; \FC.class\F[] by default.

JAVAH
    The Java generator for C header and stub files.

JAVAHCOM
    The command line used to generate C header and stub files from Java classes. Any options specified in the $JAVAHFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variable are included on this command line.

JAVAHCOMSTR
    The string displayed when C header and stub files are generated from Java classes. If this is not set, then $JAVAHCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(JAVAHCOMSTR = "Generating header/stub file(s) $TARGETS from $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

JAVAHFLAGS
    General options passed to the C header and stub file generator
    for Java classes.

JAVAINCLUDES
    Include path for Java header files (such as jni.h)

JAVASOURCEPATH
    Specifies the list of directories that
    will be searched for input
    \FC.java\F[]
    file.
    The directories in this list will be added to the
    javac command line
    via the \FC-sourcepath\F[] option.
    The individual directory names will be
    separated by the operating system's path separate character
    (\FC:\F[] on UNIX/Linux/POSIX,
    \FC;\F[]
    on Windows).
    Note that this currently just adds the specified
    directory via the \FC-sourcepath\F[] option.
    SCons does not currently search the
    $JAVASOURCEPATH directories for dependency
    \FC.java\F[]
    files.

JAVASUFFIX
    The suffix for Java files;
    \FC.java\F[]
    by default.

JAVAVERSION
    Specifies the Java version being used by the \FCJava\F[] builder.
    This is not currently used to select one
    version of the Java compiler vs. another.
    Instead, you should set this to specify the version of Java
    supported by your javac compiler.
    The default is \FC1.4\F[].
    This is sometimes necessary because
    Java 1.5 changed the file names that are created
    for nested anonymous inner classes,
    which can cause a mismatch with the files
    that SCons expects will be generated by the javac compiler.
    Setting $JAVAVERSION to
    \FC1.5\F[]
    (or \FC1.6\F[], as appropriate)
    can make SCons realize that a Java 1.5 or 1.6
    build is actually up to date.

LATEX
    The LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

LATEXCOM
    The command line used to call the LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

LATEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when calling
    the LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.
    If this is not set, then $LATEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(LATEXCOMSTR = "Building $TARGET from LaTeX input $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

LATEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

LATEXRETRIES
    The maximum number of times that LaTeX
    will be re-run if the
    \FC.log\F[]
    generated by the $LATEXCOM [scons(1)] command
    indicates that there are undefined references.
    The default is to try to resolve undefined references
    by re-running LaTeX up to three times.

LATEXSUFFIXES
    The list of suffixes of files that will be scanned
    for LaTeX implicit dependencies
    (\FC\include\F[] or \FC\import\F[] files).
    The default list is:
    \FC
    [".tex", ".ltx", ".latex"]
    \F[].fi

LDMODULE
    The linker for building loadable modules.
    By default, this is the same as $SHLINK [scons(1)].

LDMODULECOM
    The command line for building loadable modules.
    On Mac OS X, this uses the $LDMODULE [scons(1)],
    $LDMODULEFLAGS [scons(1)] and
    $FRAMEWORKSFLAGS [scons(1)] variables.
    On other systems, this is the same as $SHLINK [scons(1)].

LDMODULECOMSTR
    The string displayed when building loadable modules.
    If this is not set, then $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

LDMODULEEMITTER
    Contains the emitter specification for the
    \FCLoadableModule\F[] [scons(1)] builder.
    The manpage section "Builder Objects" contains
    general information on specifying emitters.

LDMODULEFLAGS
    General user options passed to the linker for building loadable modules.

LDMODULENOVERSIONSYMLINKS
    Instructs the \FCLoadableModule\F[] [scons(1)] builder to not automatically create symlinks
    for versioned modules. Defaults to \FC$SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS\F[]

LDMODULEPREFIX
    The prefix used for loadable module file names.
    On Mac OS X, this is null;
    on other systems, this is
    the same as $SHLIBPREFIX [scons(1)].

_LDMODULESONAME
    A macro that automatically generates loadable module's SONAME based on $TARGET,
    $LDMODULEVERSION and $LDMODULESUFFIX. Used by \FCLoadableModule\F[] [scons(1)] builder
    when the linker tool supports SONAME (e.g. \FCgnulink\F[] [scons(1)]).

LDMODULESUFFIX
    The suffix used for loadable module file names.
    On Mac OS X, this is null;
    on other systems, this is
    the same as $SHLIBSUFFIX.

LDMODULEVERSION
    When this construction variable is defined, a versioned loadable module
    is created by \FCLoadableModule\F[] [scons(1)] builder. This activates the
    $_LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)] and thus modifies the $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)] as
    required, adds the version number to the library name, and creates the symlinks
    that are needed. $LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)] versions should exist in the same
    format as $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)].

LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS
    Extra flags added to $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)] when building versioned
    \FCLoadableModule\F[] [scons(1)]. These flags are only used when $LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)] is
    set.

_LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS
    This macro automatically introduces extra flags to $LDMODULECOM [scons(1)] when
    building versioned \FCLoadableModule\F[] [scons(1)] (that is when
    $LDMODULEVERSION [scons(1)] is set). \FC_LDMODULEVERSIONFLAGS\F[]
    usually adds $SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)] and some extra dynamically generated
    options (such as \FC-Wl,-soname=$_LDMODULESONAME\F[]). It is unused
    by plain (unversioned) loadable modules.

LEX The lexical analyzer generator.

LEXCOM
    The command line used to call the lexical analyzer generator
    to generate a source file.

LEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating a source file
    using the lexical analyzer generator.
    If this is not set, then $LEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(LEXCOMSTR = "Lex'ing $TARGET from $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

LEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the lexical analyzer generator.

LEXUNISTD
    Used only on windows environments to set a lex flag to prevent 'unistd.h' from being included. The default value is '--nounistd'.

_LIBDIRFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the linker command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for library.
    The value of $_LIBDIRFLAGS is created
    by respectively prepending and appending $LIBDIRPREFIX and $LIBDIRSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $LIBPATH.

LIBDIRPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify a library directory on the linker command line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each directory
    in the $LIBPATH construction variable
    when the $_LIBDIRFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

LIBDIRSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify a library directory on the linker command line.
    This will be appended to the end of each directory
    in the $LIBPATH construction variable
    when the $_LIBDIRFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

LIBEMITTER
    Contains the emitter specification for the
    \FCStaticLibrary\F[] [scons(1)] builder.
    The manpage section "Builder Objects" contains
    general information on specifying emitters.

_LIBFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the linker command-line options
    for specifying libraries to be linked with the resulting target.
    The value of $_LIBFLAGS is created
    by respectively prepending and appending $LIBLINKPREFIX and $LIBLINKSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each filename in $LIBS.

LIBLINKPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify a library to link on the linker command line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each library
    in the $LIBS construction variable
    when the $_LIBFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

LIBLINKSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify a library to link on the linker command line.
    This will be appended to the end of each library
    in the $LIBS construction variable
    when the $_LIBFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

LIBPATH
    The list of directories that will be searched for libraries.
    The implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in $LINKFLAGS or $SHLINKFLAGS
    because the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner. Note:
    directory names in LIBPATH will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command. To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    \FC
    env = Environment(LIBPATH='#/libs')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    libs = Dir('libs')
    env = Environment(LIBPATH=libs)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_LIBDIRFLAGS
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    respectively prepending and appending the values of the
    $LIBDIRPREFIX and $LIBDIRSUFFIX
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $LIBPATH.
    Any command lines you define that need
    the LIBPATH directory list should
    include $_LIBDIRFLAGS:
    \FC
    env = Environment(LINKCOM="my_linker $_LIBDIRFLAGS $_LIBFLAGS -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi

LIBPREFIX
    The prefix used for (static) library file names.
    A default value is set for each platform
    (posix, win32, os2, etc.),
    but the value is overridden by individual tools
    (ar, mslib, sgiar, sunar, tlib, etc.)
    to reflect the names of the libraries they create.

LIBPREFIXES
    A list of all legal prefixes for library file names.
    When searching for library dependencies,
    SCons will look for files with these prefixes,
    the base library name,
    and suffixes in the $LIBSUFFIXES list.

LIBS
    A list of one or more libraries
    that will be linked with
    any executable programs
    created by this environment.
    The library list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_LIBFLAGS
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    respectively prepending and appending the values of the
    $LIBLINKPREFIX and $LIBLINKSUFFIX
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each filename in $LIBS.
    Any command lines you define that need
    the LIBS library list should
    include $_LIBFLAGS:
    \FC
    env = Environment(LINKCOM="my_linker $_LIBDIRFLAGS $_LIBFLAGS -o $TARGET $SOURCE")
    \F[].fi
    If you add a
    File
    object to the
    $LIBS
    list, the name of that file will be added to
    $_LIBFLAGS,
    and thus the link line, as is, without
    $LIBLINKPREFIX
    or
    $LIBLINKSUFFIX.
    For example:
    \FC
    env.Append(LIBS=File('/tmp/mylib.so'))
    \F[].fi
    In all cases, scons will add dependencies from the executable program to
    all the libraries in this list.

LIBSUFFIX
    The suffix used for (static) library file names.
    A default value is set for each platform
    (posix, win32, os2, etc.),
    but the value is overridden by individual tools
    (ar, mslib, sgiar, sunar, tlib, etc.)
    to reflect the names of the libraries they create.

LIBSUFFIXES
    A list of all legal suffixes for library file names.
    When searching for library dependencies,
    SCons will look for files with prefixes, in the $LIBPREFIXES list,
    the base library name,
    and these suffixes.

LICENSE
    The abbreviated name, preferably the SPDX code, of the license under which
    this project is released (GPL-3.0, LGPL-2.1, BSD-2-Clause etc.).
    See http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
    for a list of license names and SPDX codes.

LINESEPARATOR
    The separator used by the \FCSubstfile\F[] and \FCTextfile\F[] builders.
    This value is used between sources when constructing the target.
    It defaults to the current system line separator.

LINGUAS_FILE
    The $LINGUAS_FILE defines file(s) containing list of additional linguas
    to be processed by \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)], \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] or \FCMOFiles\F[] [scons(1)]
    builders. It also affects \FCTranslate\F[] [scons(1)] builder. If the variable contains
    a string, it defines name of the list file. The $LINGUAS_FILE may be a
    list of file names as well. If $LINGUAS_FILE is set to
    \FCTrue\F[] (or non-zero numeric value), the list will be read from
    default file named
    \FCLINGUAS\F[].

LINK
    The linker.

LINKCOM
    The command line used to link object files into an executable.

LINKCOMSTR
    The string displayed when object files
    are linked into an executable.
    If this is not set, then $LINKCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(LINKCOMSTR = "Linking $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

LINKFLAGS
    General user options passed to the linker.
    Note that this variable should
    not
    contain
    \FC-l\F[]
    (or similar) options for linking with the libraries listed in $LIBS [scons(1)],
    nor
    \FC-L\F[]
    (or similar) library search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $LIBPATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_LIBFLAGS [scons(1)]
    above,
    for the variable that expands to library-link options,
    and
    $_LIBDIRFLAGS [scons(1)]
    above,
    for the variable that expands to library search path options.

M4  The M4 macro preprocessor.

M4COM
    The command line used to pass files through the M4 macro preprocessor.

M4COMSTR
    The string displayed when
    a file is passed through the M4 macro preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $M4COM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

M4FLAGS
    General options passed to the M4 macro preprocessor.

MAKEINDEX
    The makeindex generator for the TeX formatter and typesetter and the
    LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

MAKEINDEXCOM
    The command line used to call the makeindex generator for the
    TeX formatter and typesetter and the LaTeX structured formatter and
    typesetter.

MAKEINDEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when calling the makeindex generator for the
    TeX formatter and typesetter
    and the LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.
    If this is not set, then $MAKEINDEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

MAKEINDEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the makeindex generator for the TeX formatter
    and typesetter and the LaTeX structured formatter and typesetter.

MAXLINELENGTH
    The maximum number of characters allowed on an external command line.
    On Win32 systems,
    link lines longer than this many characters
    are linked via a temporary file name.

MIDL
    The Microsoft IDL compiler.

MIDLCOM
    The command line used to pass files to the Microsoft IDL compiler.

MIDLCOMSTR
    The string displayed when
    the Microsoft IDL compiler is called.
    If this is not set, then $MIDLCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

MIDLFLAGS
    General options passed to the Microsoft IDL compiler.

MOSUFFIX
    Suffix used for \FCMO\F[] files (default: \FC'.mo'\F[]).
    See \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCMOFiles\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGFMT
    Absolute path to msgfmt(1) binary, found by
    \FCDetect()\F[].
    See \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCMOFiles\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGFMTCOM
    Complete command line to run msgfmt(1) program.
    See \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCMOFiles\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGFMTCOMSTR
    String to display when msgfmt(1) is invoked
    (default: \FC''\F[], which means ``print $MSGFMTCOM [scons(1)]'').
    See \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCMOFiles\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGFMTFLAGS
    Additional flags to msgfmt(1).
    See \FCmsgfmt\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCMOFiles\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGINIT
    Path to msginit(1) program (found via
    \FCDetect()\F[]).
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGINITCOM
    Complete command line to run msginit(1) program.
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGINITCOMSTR
    String to display when msginit(1) is invoked
    (default: \FC''\F[], which means ``print $MSGINITCOM [scons(1)]'').
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGINITFLAGS
    List of additional flags to msginit(1) (default:
    \FC[]\F[]).
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

_MSGINITLOCALE
    Internal ``macro''. Computes locale (language) name based on target filename
    (default: \FC'${TARGET.filebase}' \F[]).
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGMERGE
    Absolute path to msgmerge(1) binary as found by
    \FCDetect()\F[].
    See \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGMERGECOM
    Complete command line to run msgmerge(1) command.
    See \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGMERGECOMSTR
    String to be displayed when msgmerge(1) is invoked
    (default: \FC''\F[], which means ``print $MSGMERGECOM [scons(1)]'').
    See \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSGMERGEFLAGS
    Additional flags to msgmerge(1) command.
    See \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

MSSDK_DIR
    The directory containing the Microsoft SDK
    (either Platform SDK or Windows SDK)
    to be used for compilation.

MSSDK_VERSION
    The version string of the Microsoft SDK
    (either Platform SDK or Windows SDK)
    to be used for compilation.
    Supported versions include
    \FC6.1\F[],
    \FC6.0A\F[],
    \FC6.0\F[],
    \FC2003R2\F[]
    and
    \FC2003R1\F[].

MSVC_BATCH
    When set to any true value,
    specifies that SCons should batch
    compilation of object files
    when calling the Microsoft Visual C/C++ compiler.
    All compilations of source files from the same source directory
    that generate target files in a same output directory
    and were configured in SCons using the same construction environment
    will be built in a single call to the compiler.
    Only source files that have changed since their
    object files were built will be passed to each compiler invocation
    (via the $CHANGED_SOURCES [scons(1)] construction variable).
    Any compilations where the object (target) file base name
    (minus the \FC.obj\F[])
    does not match the source file base name
    will be compiled separately.

MSVC_USE_SCRIPT
    Use a batch script to set up Microsoft Visual Studio compiler
    $MSVC_USE_SCRIPT overrides $MSVC_VERSION and $TARGET_ARCH.
    If set to the name of a Visual Studio .bat file (e.g. vcvars.bat),
    SCons will run that bat file and extract the relevant variables from
    the result (typically %INCLUDE%, %LIB%, and %PATH%). Setting
    MSVC_USE_SCRIPT to None bypasses the Visual Studio autodetection
    entirely; use this if you are running SCons in a Visual Studio cmd
    window and importing the shell's environment variables.

MSVC_UWP_APP
    Build libraries for a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) Application.
    If $MSVC_UWP_APP is set, the Visual Studio environment will be set up to point
    to the Windows Store compatible libraries and Visual Studio runtimes. In doing so,
    any libraries that are built will be able to be used in a UWP App and published
    to the Windows Store.
    This flag will only have an effect with Visual Studio 2015+.
    This variable must be passed as an argument to the Environment()
    constructor; setting it later has no effect.
    Valid values are '1' or '0'

MSVC_VERSION
    Sets the preferred version of Microsoft Visual C/C++ to use.
    If $MSVC_VERSION is not set, SCons will (by default) select the
    latest version of Visual C/C++ installed on your system. If the
    specified version isn't installed, tool initialization will fail.
    This variable must be passed as an argument to the Environment()
    constructor; setting it later has no effect.
    Valid values for Windows are
    \FC14.2\F[],
    \FC14.1\F[],
    \FC14.0\F[],
    \FC14.0Exp\F[],
    \FC12.0\F[],
    \FC12.0Exp\F[],
    \FC11.0\F[],
    \FC11.0Exp\F[],
    \FC10.0\F[],
    \FC10.0Exp\F[],
    \FC9.0\F[],
    \FC9.0Exp\F[],
    \FC8.0\F[],
    \FC8.0Exp\F[],
    \FC7.1\F[],
    \FC7.0\F[],
    and \FC6.0\F[].
    Versions ending in \FCExp\F[] refer to "Express" or
    "Express for Desktop" editions.

MSVS
    When the Microsoft Visual Studio tools are initialized,
    they set up this dictionary with the following keys:

    VERSION
        the version of MSVS being used (can be set via
        $MSVS_VERSION [scons(1)])

    VERSIONS
        the available versions of MSVS installed

    VCINSTALLDIR
        installed directory of Visual C++

    VSINSTALLDIR
        installed directory of Visual Studio

    FRAMEWORKDIR
        installed directory of the .NET framework

    FRAMEWORKVERSIONS
        list of installed versions of the .NET framework,
        sorted latest to oldest.

    FRAMEWORKVERSION
        latest installed version of the .NET framework

    FRAMEWORKSDKDIR
        installed location of the .NET SDK.

    PLATFORMSDKDIR
        installed location of the Platform SDK.

    PLATFORMSDK_MODULES
        dictionary of installed Platform SDK modules, where the
        dictionary keys are keywords for the various modules,
        and the values are 2-tuples where the first is the
        release date, and the second is the version number.
If a value is not set, it was not available in the registry.

MSVS_ARCH
    Sets the architecture for which the generated project(s) should build.
    The default value is \FCx86\F[].
    \FCamd64\F[] is also supported by SCons for
    most Visual Studio versions. Since Visual Studio 2015
    \FCarm\F[] is supported, and since Visual Studio
    2017 \FCarm64\F[] is supported.
    Trying to set $MSVS_ARCH
    to an architecture that's not supported for a given Visual
    Studio version will generate an error.

MSVS_PROJECT_GUID
    The string placed in a generated
    Microsoft Visual Studio project file as the value of the
    \FCProjectGUID\F[] attribute. There is no default
    value. If not
    defined, a new GUID is generated.

MSVS_SCC_AUX_PATH
    The path name placed in a generated
    Microsoft Visual Studio project file as the value of the
    \FCSccAuxPath\F[] attribute if the
    MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER construction variable is
    also set. There is
    no default value.

MSVS_SCC_CONNECTION_ROOT
    The root path of projects in your SCC workspace, i.e the
    path under which all project and solution files will be
    generated. It is used as a reference path from which the
    relative paths of the generated Microsoft Visual Studio project
    and solution files are computed. The relative project file path
    is placed as the value of the \FCSccLocalPath\F[]
    attribute of the project file and as the values of the
    \FCSccProjectFilePathRelativizedFromConnection[i]\F[]
    (where [i] ranges from 0 to the number of projects in the solution)
    attributes of the \FCGlobalSection(SourceCodeControl)\F[]
    section of the Microsoft Visual Studio solution file. Similarly
    the relative solution file path is placed as the values of the
    \FCSccLocalPath[i]\F[] (where [i] ranges from 0
    to the number of projects in the solution) attributes of the
    \FCGlobalSection(SourceCodeControl)\F[] section of
    the Microsoft Visual Studio solution file. This is used only if
    the MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER construction variable is
    also set. The default value is the current working directory.

MSVS_SCC_PROJECT_NAME
    The project name placed in a generated Microsoft
    Visual Studio project file as the value of the
    \FCSccProjectName\F[] attribute if the
    MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER construction variable
    is also set. In this case the string is also placed in
    the \FCSccProjectName0\F[] attribute of the
    \FCGlobalSection(SourceCodeControl)\F[] section
    of the Microsoft Visual Studio solution file. There is no
    default value.

MSVS_SCC_PROVIDER
    The string placed in a generated Microsoft
    Visual Studio project file as the value of the
    \FCSccProvider\F[] attribute. The string is
    also placed in the \FCSccProvider0\F[] attribute
    of the \FCGlobalSection(SourceCodeControl)\F[]
    section of the Microsoft Visual Studio solution file. There
    is no default value.

MSVS_VERSION
    Sets the preferred version of Microsoft Visual Studio to use.
    If $MSVS_VERSION is not set, SCons will (by default)
    select the latest version of Visual Studio installed on your
    system. So, if you have version 6 and version 7 (MSVS .NET)
    installed, it will prefer version 7. You can override this by
    specifying the MSVS_VERSION variable in the
    Environment initialization, setting it to the appropriate
    version ('6.0' or '7.0', for example). If the specified
    version isn't installed, tool initialization will fail.
    This is obsolete: use $MSVC_VERSION instead. If
    $MSVS_VERSION is set and $MSVC_VERSION is
    not, $MSVC_VERSION will be set automatically to
    $MSVS_VERSION. If both are set to different values,
    scons will raise an error.

MSVSBUILDCOM
    The build command line placed in a generated Microsoft Visual
    Studio project file. The default is to have Visual Studio
    invoke SCons with any specified build targets.

MSVSCLEANCOM
    The clean command line placed in a generated Microsoft Visual
    Studio project file. The default is to have Visual Studio
    invoke SCons with the -c option to remove any specified
    targets.

MSVSENCODING
    The encoding string placed in a generated Microsoft
    Visual Studio project file. The default is encoding
    \FCWindows-1252\F[].

MSVSPROJECTCOM
    The action used to generate Microsoft Visual Studio project files.

MSVSPROJECTSUFFIX
    The suffix used for Microsoft Visual Studio project (DSP)
    files. The default value is \FC.vcproj\F[]
    when using Visual Studio version 7.x (.NET) or later version,
    and \FC.dsp\F[] when using earlier versions of
    Visual Studio.

MSVSREBUILDCOM
    The rebuild command line placed in a generated Microsoft
    Visual Studio project file. The default is to have Visual
    Studio invoke SCons with any specified rebuild targets.

MSVSSCONS
    The SCons used in generated Microsoft Visual Studio project
    files. The default is the version of SCons being used to
    generate the project file.

MSVSSCONSCOM
    The default SCons command used in generated Microsoft Visual
    Studio project files.

MSVSSCONSCRIPT
    The sconscript file (that is, \FCSConstruct\F[] or \FCSConscript\F[]
    file) that will be invoked by Visual Studio project files
    (through the $MSVSSCONSCOM [scons(1)] variable). The default
    is the same sconscript file that contains the call to
    \FCMSVSProject\F[] to build the project file.

MSVSSCONSFLAGS
    The SCons flags used in generated Microsoft Visual Studio project files.

MSVSSOLUTIONCOM
    The action used to generate Microsoft Visual Studio solution files.

MSVSSOLUTIONSUFFIX
    The suffix used for Microsoft Visual Studio solution (DSW)
    files. The default value is \FC.sln\F[]
    when using Visual Studio version 7.x (.NET), and
    \FC.dsw\F[] when using earlier versions of
    Visual Studio.

MT  The program used on Windows systems to embed manifests into DLLs and EXEs.
    See also $WINDOWS_EMBED_MANIFEST [scons(1)].

MTEXECOM
    The Windows command line used to embed manifests into executables.
    See also $MTSHLIBCOM [scons(1)].

MTFLAGS
    Flags passed to the $MT [scons(1)] manifest embedding program (Windows only).

MTSHLIBCOM
    The Windows command line used to embed manifests into shared libraries (DLLs).
    See also $MTEXECOM [scons(1)].

MWCW_VERSION
    The version number of the MetroWerks CodeWarrior C compiler
    to be used.

MWCW_VERSIONS
    A list of installed versions of the MetroWerks CodeWarrior C compiler
    on this system.

NAME
    Specfies the name of the project to package.

no_import_lib
    When set to non-zero,
    suppresses creation of a corresponding Windows static import lib by the
    \FCSharedLibrary\F[]
    builder when used with
    MinGW, Microsoft Visual Studio or Metrowerks.
    This also suppresses creation
    of an export (.exp) file
    when using Microsoft Visual Studio.

OBJPREFIX
    The prefix used for (static) object file names.

OBJSUFFIX
    The suffix used for (static) object file names.

PACKAGEROOT
    Specifies the directory where all files in resulting archive will be
    placed if applicable. The default value is "$NAME-$VERSION".

PACKAGETYPE
    Selects the package type to build. Currently these are available:
    * msi - Microsoft Installer
    * rpm - Redhat Package Manger
    * ipkg - Itsy Package Management System
    * tarbz2 - compressed tar
    * targz - compressed tar
    * zip - zip file
    * src_tarbz2 - compressed tar source
    * src_targz - compressed tar source
    * src_zip - zip file source
    This may be overridden with the "package_type" command line option.

PACKAGEVERSION
    The version of the package (not the underlying project).
    This is currently only used by the rpm packager
    and should reflect changes in the packaging,
    not the underlying project code itself.

PCH The Microsoft Visual C++ precompiled header that will be used when compiling
    object files. This variable is ignored by tools other than Microsoft Visual C++.
    When this variable is
    defined SCons will add options to the compiler command line to
    cause it to use the precompiled header, and will also set up the
    dependencies for the PCH file.
    Example:
    \FC
    env['PCH'] = 'StdAfx.pch'
    \F[].fi

PCHCOM
    The command line used by the
    \FCPCH\F[]
    builder to generated a precompiled header.

PCHCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating a precompiled header.
    If this is not set, then $PCHCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

PCHPDBFLAGS
    A construction variable that, when expanded,
    adds the \FC/yD\F[] flag to the command line
    only if the $PDB construction variable is set.

PCHSTOP
    This variable specifies how much of a source file is precompiled. This
    variable is ignored by tools other than Microsoft Visual C++, or when
    the PCH variable is not being used. When this variable is define it
    must be a string that is the name of the header that
    is included at the end of the precompiled portion of the source files, or
    the empty string if the "#pragma hrdstop" construct is being used:
    \FC
    env['PCHSTOP'] = 'StdAfx.h'
    \F[].fi

PDB The Microsoft Visual C++ PDB file that will store debugging information for
    object files, shared libraries, and programs. This variable is ignored by
    tools other than Microsoft Visual C++.
    When this variable is
    defined SCons will add options to the compiler and linker command line to
    cause them to generate external debugging information, and will also set up the
    dependencies for the PDB file.
    Example:
    \FC
    env['PDB'] = 'hello.pdb'
    \F[].fi
    The Visual C++ compiler switch that SCons uses by default
    to generate PDB information is \FC/Z7\F[].
    This works correctly with parallel (\FC-j\F[]) builds
    because it embeds the debug information in the intermediate object files,
    as opposed to sharing a single PDB file between multiple object files.
    This is also the only way to get debug information
    embedded into a static library.
    Using the \FC/Zi\F[] instead may yield improved
    link-time performance,
    although parallel builds will no longer work.
    You can generate PDB files with the \FC/Zi\F[]
    switch by overriding the default $CCPDBFLAGS [scons(1)] variable;
    see the entry for that variable for specific examples.

PDFCOM
    A deprecated synonym for $DVIPDFCOM [scons(1)].

PDFLATEX
    The pdflatex utility.

PDFLATEXCOM
    The command line used to call the pdflatex utility.

PDFLATEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when calling the pdflatex utility.
    If this is not set, then $PDFLATEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(PDFLATEX;COMSTR = "Building $TARGET from LaTeX input $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

PDFLATEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the pdflatex utility.

PDFPREFIX
    The prefix used for PDF file names.

PDFSUFFIX
    The suffix used for PDF file names.

PDFTEX
    The pdftex utility.

PDFTEXCOM
    The command line used to call the pdftex utility.

PDFTEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when calling the pdftex utility.
    If this is not set, then $PDFTEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(PDFTEXCOMSTR = "Building $TARGET from TeX input $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

PDFTEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the pdftex utility.

PKGCHK
    On Solaris systems,
    the package-checking program that will
    be used (along with $PKGINFO)
    to look for installed versions of
    the Sun PRO C++ compiler.
    The default is
    \FC/usr/sbin/pgkchk\F[].

PKGINFO
    On Solaris systems,
    the package information program that will
    be used (along with $PKGCHK)
    to look for installed versions of
    the Sun PRO C++ compiler.
    The default is
    \FCpkginfo\F[].

PLATFORM
    The name of the platform used to create the Environment. If no platform is
    specified when the Environment is created,
    \FCscons\F[]
    autodetects the platform.
    \FC
    env = Environment(tools = [])
    if env['PLATFORM'] == 'cygwin':
        Tool('mingw')(env)
    else:
        Tool('msvc')(env)
    \F[].fi

POAUTOINIT
    The $POAUTOINIT variable, if set to \FCTrue\F[] (on non-zero
    numeric value), let the \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool to automatically initialize
    missing \FCPO\F[] files with
    msginit(1). This applies to both,
    \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builders (and others that use any of
    them).

POCREATE_ALIAS
    Common alias for all \FCPO\F[] files created with \FCPOInit\F[]
    builder (default: \FC'po-create'\F[]).
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

POSUFFIX
    Suffix used for \FCPO\F[] files (default: \FC'.po'\F[])
    See \FCmsginit\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

POTDOMAIN
    The $POTDOMAIN defines default domain, used to generate
    \FCPOT\F[] filename as \FC$POTDOMAIN.pot\F[] when
    no \FCPOT\F[] file name is provided by the user. This applies to
    \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)], \FCPOInit\F[] [scons(1)] and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builders (and
    builders, that use them, e.g. \FCTranslate\F[]). Normally (if $POTDOMAIN is
    not defined), the builders use \FCmessages.pot\F[] as default
    \FCPOT\F[] file name.

POTSUFFIX
    Suffix used for PO Template files (default: \FC'.pot'\F[]).
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

POTUPDATE_ALIAS
    Name of the common phony target for all PO Templates created with
    \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] (default: \FC'pot-update'\F[]).
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

POUPDATE_ALIAS
    Common alias for all \FCPO\F[] files being defined with
    \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder (default: \FC'po-update'\F[]).
    See \FCmsgmerge\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

PRINT_CMD_LINE_FUNC
    A Python function used to print the command lines as they are executed
    (assuming command printing is not disabled by the
    \FC-q\F[]
    or
    \FC-s\F[]
    options or their equivalents).
    The function should take four arguments:
    \FCs\F[],
    the command being executed (a string),
    \FCtarget\F[],
    the target being built (file node, list, or string name(s)),
    \FCsource\F[],
    the source(s) used (file node, list, or string name(s)), and
    \FCenv\F[],
    the environment being used.
    The function must do the printing itself. The default implementation,
    used if this variable is not set or is None, is:
    \FC
    def print_cmd_line(s, target, source, env):
      sys.stdout.write(s + "\n")
    \F[].fi
    Here's an example of a more interesting function:
    \FC
    def print_cmd_line(s, target, source, env):
       sys.stdout.write("Building %s -> %s...\n" %
        (' and '.join([str(x) for x in source]),
         ' and '.join([str(x) for x in target])))
    env=Environment(PRINT_CMD_LINE_FUNC=print_cmd_line)
    env.Program('foo', 'foo.c')
    \F[].fi
    This just prints "Building \FCtargetname\F[] from \FCsourcename\F[]..." instead
    of the actual commands.
    Such a function could also log the actual commands to a log file,
    for example.

PROGEMITTER
    Contains the emitter specification for the
    \FCProgram\F[] [scons(1)] builder.
    The manpage section "Builder Objects" contains
    general information on specifying emitters.

PROGPREFIX
    The prefix used for executable file names.

PROGSUFFIX
    The suffix used for executable file names.

PSCOM
    The command line used to convert TeX DVI files into a PostScript file.

PSCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a TeX DVI file
    is converted into a PostScript file.
    If this is not set, then $PSCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

PSPREFIX
    The prefix used for PostScript file names.

PSSUFFIX
    The prefix used for PostScript file names.

QT_AUTOSCAN
    Turn off scanning for mocable files. Use the Moc Builder to explicitly
    specify files to run moc on.

QT_BINPATH
    The path where the qt binaries are installed.
    The default value is '$QTDIR [scons(1)]/bin'.

QT_CPPPATH
    The path where the qt header files are installed.
    The default value is '$QTDIR [scons(1)]/include'.
    Note: If you set this variable to None,
    the tool won't change the $CPPPATH [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

QT_DEBUG
    Prints lots of debugging information while scanning for moc files.

QT_LIB
    Default value is 'qt'. You may want to set this to 'qt-mt'. Note: If you set
    this variable to None, the tool won't change the $LIBS [scons(1)] variable.

QT_LIBPATH
    The path where the qt libraries are installed.
    The default value is '$QTDIR [scons(1)]/lib'.
    Note: If you set this variable to None,
    the tool won't change the $LIBPATH [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

QT_MOC
    Default value is '$QT_BINPATH [scons(1)]/moc'.

QT_MOCCXXPREFIX
    Default value is ''. Prefix for moc output files, when source is a cxx file.

QT_MOCCXXSUFFIX
    Default value is '.moc'. Suffix for moc output files, when source is a cxx
    file.

QT_MOCFROMCXXCOM
    Command to generate a moc file from a cpp file.

QT_MOCFROMCXXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating a moc file from a cpp file.
    If this is not set, then $QT_MOCFROMCXXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

QT_MOCFROMCXXFLAGS
    Default value is '-i'. These flags are passed to moc, when moccing a
    C++ file.

QT_MOCFROMHCOM
    Command to generate a moc file from a header.

QT_MOCFROMHCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating a moc file from a cpp file.
    If this is not set, then $QT_MOCFROMHCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

QT_MOCFROMHFLAGS
    Default value is ''. These flags are passed to moc, when moccing a header
    file.

QT_MOCHPREFIX
    Default value is 'moc_'. Prefix for moc output files, when source is a header.

QT_MOCHSUFFIX
    Default value is '$CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)]'. Suffix for moc output files, when source is
    a header.

QT_UIC
    Default value is '$QT_BINPATH [scons(1)]/uic'.

QT_UICCOM
    Command to generate header files from .ui files.

QT_UICCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating header files from .ui files.
    If this is not set, then $QT_UICCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

QT_UICDECLFLAGS
    Default value is ''. These flags are passed to uic, when creating a a h
    file from a .ui file.

QT_UICDECLPREFIX
    Default value is ''. Prefix for uic generated header files.

QT_UICDECLSUFFIX
    Default value is '.h'. Suffix for uic generated header files.

QT_UICIMPLFLAGS
    Default value is ''. These flags are passed to uic, when creating a cxx
    file from a .ui file.

QT_UICIMPLPREFIX
    Default value is 'uic_'. Prefix for uic generated implementation files.

QT_UICIMPLSUFFIX
    Default value is '$CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)]'. Suffix for uic generated implementation
    files.

QT_UISUFFIX
    Default value is '.ui'. Suffix of designer input files.

QTDIR
    The qt tool tries to take this from os.environ.
    It also initializes all QT_*
    construction variables listed below.
    (Note that all paths are constructed
    with python's os.path.join() method,
    but are listed here with the '/' separator
    for easier reading.)
    In addition, the construction environment
    variables $CPPPATH [scons(1)],
    $LIBPATH [scons(1)] and
    $LIBS [scons(1)] may be modified
    and the variables
    $PROGEMITTER [scons(1)], $SHLIBEMITTER [scons(1)] and $LIBEMITTER [scons(1)]
    are modified. Because the build-performance is affected when using this tool,
    you have to explicitly specify it at Environment creation:
    \FC
    Environment(tools=['default','qt'])
    \F[].fi
    The qt tool supports the following operations:
    Automatic moc file generation from header files.
    You do not have to specify moc files explicitly, the tool does it for you.
    However, there are a few preconditions to do so: Your header file must have
    the same filebase as your implementation file and must stay in the same
    directory. It must have one of the suffixes .h, .hpp, .H, .hxx, .hh. You
    can turn off automatic moc file generation by setting QT_AUTOSCAN to 0.
    See also the corresponding
    \FCMoc\F[]()
    builder method.
    Automatic moc file generation from cxx files.
    As stated in the qt documentation, include the moc file at the end of
    the cxx file. Note that you have to include the file, which is generated
    by the transformation ${QT_MOCCXXPREFIX}<basename>${QT_MOCCXXSUFFIX}, by default
    <basename>.moc. A warning is generated after building the moc file, if you
    do not include the correct file. If you are using VariantDir, you may
    need to specify duplicate=1. You can turn off automatic moc file generation
    by setting QT_AUTOSCAN to 0. See also the corresponding
    \FCMoc\F[]
    builder method.
    Automatic handling of .ui files.
    The implementation files generated from .ui files are handled much the same
    as yacc or lex files. Each .ui file given as a source of Program, Library or
    SharedLibrary will generate three files, the declaration file, the
    implementation file and a moc file. Because there are also generated headers,
    you may need to specify duplicate=1 in calls to VariantDir.
    See also the corresponding
    \FCUic\F[]
    builder method.

RANLIB
    The archive indexer.

RANLIBCOM
    The command line used to index a static library archive.

RANLIBCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a static library archive is indexed.
    If this is not set, then $RANLIBCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(RANLIBCOMSTR = "Indexing $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

RANLIBFLAGS
    General options passed to the archive indexer.

RC  The resource compiler used to build
    a Microsoft Visual C++ resource file.

RCCOM
    The command line used to build
    a Microsoft Visual C++ resource file.

RCCOMSTR
    The string displayed when invoking the resource compiler
    to build a Microsoft Visual C++ resource file.
    If this is not set, then $RCCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

RCFLAGS
    The flags passed to the resource compiler by the RES builder.

RCINCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched
    by the resource compiler.
    The value of $RCINCFLAGS is created
    by respectively prepending and appending
    $RCINCPREFIX and $RCINCSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $CPPPATH.

RCINCPREFIX
    The prefix (flag) used to specify an include directory
    on the resource compiler command line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each directory
    in the $CPPPATH construction variable
    when the $RCINCFLAGS variable is expanded.

RCINCSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify an include directory
    on the resource compiler command line.
    This will be appended to the end of each directory
    in the $CPPPATH construction variable
    when the $RCINCFLAGS variable is expanded.

RDirs
    A function that converts a string into a list of Dir instances by
    searching the repositories.

REGSVR
    The program used on Windows systems
    to register a newly-built DLL library
    whenever the \FCSharedLibrary\F[] builder
    is passed a keyword argument of \FCregister=1\F[].

REGSVRCOM
    The command line used on Windows systems
    to register a newly-built DLL library
    whenever the \FCSharedLibrary\F[] builder
    is passed a keyword argument of \FCregister=1\F[].

REGSVRCOMSTR
    The string displayed when registering a newly-built DLL file.
    If this is not set, then $REGSVRCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

REGSVRFLAGS
    Flags passed to the DLL registration program
    on Windows systems when a newly-built DLL library is registered.
    By default,
    this includes the \FC/s\F[]
    that prevents dialog boxes from popping up
    and requiring user attention.

RMIC
    The Java RMI stub compiler.

RMICCOM
    The command line used to compile stub
    and skeleton class files
    from Java classes that contain RMI implementations.
    Any options specified in the $RMICFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variable
    are included on this command line.

RMICCOMSTR
    The string displayed when compiling
    stub and skeleton class files
    from Java classes that contain RMI implementations.
    If this is not set, then $RMICCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(RMICCOMSTR = "Generating stub/skeleton class files $TARGETS from $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

RMICFLAGS
    General options passed to the Java RMI stub compiler.

_RPATH
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the rpath flags to be used when linking
    a program with shared libraries.
    The value of $_RPATH is created
    by respectively prepending $RPATHPREFIX and appending $RPATHSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $RPATH.

RPATH
    A list of paths to search for shared libraries when running programs.
    Currently only used in the GNU (gnulink),
    IRIX (sgilink) and Sun (sunlink) linkers.
    Ignored on platforms and toolchains that don't support it.
    Note that the paths added to RPATH
    are not transformed by
    \FCscons\F[]
    in any way: if you want an absolute
    path, you must make it absolute yourself.

RPATHPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify a directory to be searched for
    shared libraries when running programs.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each directory
    in the $RPATH construction variable
    when the $_RPATH variable is automatically generated.

RPATHSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify a directory to be searched for
    shared libraries when running programs.
    This will be appended to the end of each directory
    in the $RPATH construction variable
    when the $_RPATH variable is automatically generated.

RPCGEN
    The RPC protocol compiler.

RPCGENCLIENTFLAGS
    Options passed to the RPC protocol compiler
    when generating client side stubs.
    These are in addition to any flags specified in the
    $RPCGENFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

RPCGENFLAGS
    General options passed to the RPC protocol compiler.

RPCGENHEADERFLAGS
    Options passed to the RPC protocol compiler
    when generating a header file.
    These are in addition to any flags specified in the
    $RPCGENFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

RPCGENSERVICEFLAGS
    Options passed to the RPC protocol compiler
    when generating server side stubs.
    These are in addition to any flags specified in the
    $RPCGENFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

RPCGENXDRFLAGS
    Options passed to the RPC protocol compiler
    when generating XDR routines.
    These are in addition to any flags specified in the
    $RPCGENFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

SCANNERS
    A list of the available implicit dependency scanners.
    New file scanners may be added by
    appending to this list,
    although the more flexible approach
    is to associate scanners
    with a specific Builder.
    See the manpage sections "Builder Objects"
    and "Scanner Objects"
    for more information.

SCONS_HOME
    The (optional) path to the SCons library directory,
    initialized from the external environment. If set, this is
    used to construct a shorter and more efficient search path in
    the $MSVSSCONS [scons(1)] command line executed from Microsoft
    Visual Studio project files.

SHCC
    The C compiler used for generating shared-library objects.

SHCCCOM
    The command line used to compile a C source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    Any options specified in the $SHCFLAGS [scons(1)],
    $SHCCFLAGS [scons(1)] and
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.

SHCCCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a C source file
    is compiled to a shared object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHCCCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(SHCCCOMSTR = "Compiling shared object $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

SHCCFLAGS
    Options that are passed to the C and C++ compilers
    to generate shared-library objects.

SHCFLAGS
    Options that are passed to the C compiler (only; not C++)
    to generate shared-library objects.

SHCXX
    The C++ compiler used for generating shared-library objects.

SHCXXCOM
    The command line used to compile a C++ source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    Any options specified in the $SHCXXFLAGS [scons(1)] and
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.

SHCXXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a C++ source file
    is compiled to a shared object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHCXXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(SHCXXCOMSTR = "Compiling shared object $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

SHCXXFLAGS
    Options that are passed to the C++ compiler
    to generate shared-library objects.

SHDC
    The name of the compiler to use when compiling D source
    destined to be in a shared objects.

SHDCOM
    The command line to use when compiling code to be part of shared objects.

SHDLIBVERSION
    SHDLIBVERSION.

SHDLIBVERSIONFLAGS
    SHDLIBVERSIONFLAGS.

SHDLINK
    The linker to use when creating shared objects for code bases
    include D sources.

SHDLINKCOM
    The command line to use when generating shared objects.

SHDLINKFLAGS
    The list of flags to use when generating a shared object.

SHELL
    A string naming the shell program that will be passed to the
    $SPAWN
    function.
    See the
    $SPAWN
    construction variable for more information.

SHF03
    The Fortran 03 compiler used for generating shared-library objects.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $SHF03 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 03 files.

SHF03COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 03 source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    You only need to set $SHF03COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF03COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 03 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHF03COM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF03FLAGS
    Options that are passed to the Fortran 03 compiler
    to generated shared-library objects.
    You only need to set $SHF03FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF03PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 03 source file to a
    shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $SHF03FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $SHF03PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 03 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF03PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 03 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $SHF03PPCOM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF08
    The Fortran 08 compiler used for generating shared-library objects.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $SHF08 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 08 files.

SHF08COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 08 source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    You only need to set $SHF08COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF08COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 08 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHF08COM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF08FLAGS
    Options that are passed to the Fortran 08 compiler
    to generated shared-library objects.
    You only need to set $SHF08FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF08PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 08 source file to a
    shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $SHF08FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $SHF08PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 08 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF08PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 08 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $SHF08PPCOM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF77
    The Fortran 77 compiler used for generating shared-library objects.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $SHF77 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 77 files.

SHF77COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 77 source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    You only need to set $SHF77COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF77COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 77 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHF77COM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF77FLAGS
    Options that are passed to the Fortran 77 compiler
    to generated shared-library objects.
    You only need to set $SHF77FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF77PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 77 source file to a
    shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $SHF77FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $SHF77PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 77 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF77PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 77 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $SHF77PPCOM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF90
    The Fortran 90 compiler used for generating shared-library objects.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $SHF90 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 90 files.

SHF90COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 90 source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    You only need to set $SHF90COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF90COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 90 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHF90COM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF90FLAGS
    Options that are passed to the Fortran 90 compiler
    to generated shared-library objects.
    You only need to set $SHF90FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF90PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 90 source file to a
    shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $SHF90FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $SHF90PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 90 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF90PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 90 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $SHF90PPCOM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF95
    The Fortran 95 compiler used for generating shared-library objects.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRAN [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.
    You only need to set $SHF95 [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific compiler
    or compiler version for Fortran 95 files.

SHF95COM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 95 source file
    to a shared-library object file.
    You only need to set $SHF95COM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    command line for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF95COMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 95 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHF95COM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHF95FLAGS
    Options that are passed to the Fortran 95 compiler
    to generated shared-library objects.
    You only need to set $SHF95FLAGS [scons(1)] if you need to define specific
    user options for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the user-specified options
    passed to the default Fortran compiler
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF95PPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran 95 source file to a
    shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified in the $SHF95FLAGS [scons(1)] and $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.
    You only need to set $SHF95PPCOM [scons(1)] if you need to use a specific
    C-preprocessor command line for Fortran 95 files.
    You should normally set the $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)] variable,
    which specifies the default C-preprocessor command line
    for all Fortran versions.

SHF95PPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran 95 source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $SHF95PPCOM [scons(1)] or $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHFORTRAN
    The default Fortran compiler used for generating shared-library objects.

SHFORTRANCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran source file
    to a shared-library object file.

SHFORTRANCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file.
    If this is not set, then $SHFORTRANCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHFORTRANFLAGS
    Options that are passed to the Fortran compiler
    to generate shared-library objects.

SHFORTRANPPCOM
    The command line used to compile a Fortran source file to a
    shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    Any options specified
    in the $SHFORTRANFLAGS [scons(1)] and
    $CPPFLAGS [scons(1)] construction variables
    are included on this command line.

SHFORTRANPPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when a Fortran source file
    is compiled to a shared-library object file
    after first running the file through the C preprocessor.
    If this is not set, then $SHFORTRANPPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line) is displayed.

SHLIBEMITTER
    Contains the emitter specification for the
    \FCSharedLibrary\F[] [scons(1)] builder.
    The manpage section "Builder Objects" contains
    general information on specifying emitters.

SHLIBNOVERSIONSYMLINKS
    Instructs the \FCSharedLibrary\F[] [scons(1)] builder to not create symlinks for versioned
    shared libraries.

SHLIBPREFIX
    The prefix used for shared library file names.

_SHLIBSONAME
    A macro that automatically generates shared library's SONAME based on $TARGET,
    $SHLIBVERSION and $SHLIBSUFFIX. Used by \FCSharedLibrary\F[] [scons(1)] builder when
    the linker tool supports SONAME (e.g. \FCgnulink\F[] [scons(1)]).

SHLIBSUFFIX
    The suffix used for shared library file names.

SHLIBVERSION
    When this construction variable is defined, a versioned shared library
    is created by the \FCSharedLibrary\F[] [scons(1)] builder. This activates the
    $_SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)] and thus modifies the $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)] as
    required, adds the version number to the library name, and creates the symlinks
    that are needed. $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] versions should exist as alpha-numeric,
    decimal-delimited values as defined by the regular expression "\w+[\.\w+]*".
    Example $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] values include '1', '1.2.3', and '1.2.gitaa412c8b'.

_SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS
    This macro automatically introduces extra flags to $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)] when
    building versioned \FCSharedLibrary\F[] [scons(1)] (that is when $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)]
    is set). \FC_SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS\F[] usually adds $SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS [scons(1)]
    and some extra dynamically generated options (such as
    \FC-Wl,-soname=$_SHLIBSONAME\F[]. It is unused by "plain"
    (unversioned) shared libraries.

SHLIBVERSIONFLAGS
    Extra flags added to $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)] when building versioned
    \FCSharedLibrary\F[] [scons(1)]. These flags are only used when $SHLIBVERSION [scons(1)] is
    set.

SHLINK
    The linker for programs that use shared libraries.

SHLINKCOM
    The command line used to link programs using shared libraries.

SHLINKCOMSTR
    The string displayed when programs using shared libraries are linked.
    If this is not set, then $SHLINKCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(SHLINKCOMSTR = "Linking shared $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

SHLINKFLAGS
    General user options passed to the linker for programs using shared libraries.
    Note that this variable should
    not
    contain
    \FC-l\F[]
    (or similar) options for linking with the libraries listed in $LIBS [scons(1)],
    nor
    \FC-L\F[]
    (or similar) include search path options
    that scons generates automatically from $LIBPATH [scons(1)].
    See
    $_LIBFLAGS [scons(1)]
    above,
    for the variable that expands to library-link options,
    and
    $_LIBDIRFLAGS [scons(1)]
    above,
    for the variable that expands to library search path options.

SHOBJPREFIX
    The prefix used for shared object file names.

SHOBJSUFFIX
    The suffix used for shared object file names.

SONAME
    Variable used to hard-code SONAME for versioned shared library/loadable module.
    \FC
    env.SharedLibrary('test', 'test.c', SHLIBVERSION='0.1.2', SONAME='libtest.so.2')
    \F[].fi
    The variable is used, for example, by \FCgnulink\F[] [scons(1)] linker tool.

SOURCE
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

SOURCE_URL
    The URL
    (web address)
    of the location from which the project was retrieved.
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCSource:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg and RPM packages.

SOURCES
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

SPAWN
    A command interpreter function that will be called to execute command line
    strings. The function must expect the following arguments:
    \FC
    def spawn(shell, escape, cmd, args, env):
    \F[].fi
    \FCsh\F[]
    is a string naming the shell program to use.
    \FCescape\F[]
    is a function that can be called to escape shell special characters in
    the command line.
    \FCcmd\F[]
    is the path to the command to be executed.
    \FCargs\F[]
    is the arguments to the command.
    \FCenv\F[]
    is a dictionary of the environment variables
    in which the command should be executed.

STATIC_AND_SHARED_OBJECTS_ARE_THE_SAME
    When this variable is true, static objects and shared objects are assumed to be the same; that is, SCons does not check for linking static objects into a shared library.

SUBST_DICT
    The dictionary used by the \FCSubstfile\F[] or \FCTextfile\F[] builders
    for substitution values.
    It can be anything acceptable to the dict() constructor,
    so in addition to a dictionary,
    lists of tuples are also acceptable.

SUBSTFILEPREFIX
    The prefix used for \FCSubstfile\F[] file names,
    the null string by default.

SUBSTFILESUFFIX
    The suffix used for \FCSubstfile\F[] file names,
    the null string by default.

SUMMARY
    A short summary of what the project is about.
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCSummary:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg and RPM packages,
    and as the
    \FCDescription:\F[]
    field in MSI packages.

SWIG
    The scripting language wrapper and interface generator.

SWIGCFILESUFFIX
    The suffix that will be used for intermediate C
    source files generated by
    the scripting language wrapper and interface generator.
    The default value is
    \FC_wrap\F[]$CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)].
    By default, this value is used whenever the
    \FC-c++\F[]
    option is
    not
    specified as part of the
    $SWIGFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

SWIGCOM
    The command line used to call
    the scripting language wrapper and interface generator.

SWIGCOMSTR
    The string displayed when calling
    the scripting language wrapper and interface generator.
    If this is not set, then $SWIGCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.

SWIGCXXFILESUFFIX
    The suffix that will be used for intermediate C++
    source files generated by
    the scripting language wrapper and interface generator.
    The default value is
    \FC_wrap\F[]$CFILESUFFIX [scons(1)].
    By default, this value is used whenever the
    \FC-c++\F[]
    option is specified as part of the
    $SWIGFLAGS [scons(1)]
    construction variable.

SWIGDIRECTORSUFFIX
    The suffix that will be used for intermediate C++ header
    files generated by the scripting language wrapper and interface generator.
    These are only generated for C++ code when the SWIG 'directors' feature is
    turned on.
    The default value is
    \FC_wrap.h\F[].

SWIGFLAGS
    General options passed to
    the scripting language wrapper and interface generator.
    This is where you should set
    \FC-python\F[],
    \FC-perl5\F[],
    \FC-tcl\F[],
    or whatever other options you want to specify to SWIG.
    If you set the
    \FC-c++\F[]
    option in this variable,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will, by default,
    generate a C++ intermediate source file
    with the extension that is specified as the
    $CXXFILESUFFIX [scons(1)]
    variable.

_SWIGINCFLAGS
    An automatically-generated construction variable
    containing the SWIG command-line options
    for specifying directories to be searched for included files.
    The value of $_SWIGINCFLAGS is created
    by respectively prepending and appending
    $SWIGINCPREFIX and $SWIGINCSUFFIX
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $SWIGPATH.

SWIGINCPREFIX
    The prefix used to specify an include directory on the SWIG command line.
    This will be prepended to the beginning of each directory
    in the $SWIGPATH construction variable
    when the $_SWIGINCFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

SWIGINCSUFFIX
    The suffix used to specify an include directory on the SWIG command line.
    This will be appended to the end of each directory
    in the $SWIGPATH construction variable
    when the $_SWIGINCFLAGS variable is automatically generated.

SWIGOUTDIR
    Specifies the output directory in which
    the scripting language wrapper and interface generator
    should place generated language-specific files.
    This will be used by SCons to identify
    the files that will be generated by the swig call,
    and translated into the
    \FCswig -outdir\F[] option on the command line.

SWIGPATH
    The list of directories that the scripting language wrapper
    and interface generate will search for included files.
    The SWIG implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for include files. The default value is an empty list.
    Don't explicitly put include directory
    arguments in SWIGFLAGS;
    the result will be non-portable
    and the directories will not be searched by the dependency scanner.
    Note: directory names in SWIGPATH will be looked-up relative to the SConscript
    directory when they are used in a command.
    To force
    \FCscons\F[]
    to look-up a directory relative to the root of the source tree use #:
    \FC
    env = Environment(SWIGPATH='#/include')
    \F[].fi
    The directory look-up can also be forced using the
    \FCDir\F[]()
    function:
    \FC
    include = Dir('include')
    env = Environment(SWIGPATH=include)
    \F[].fi
    The directory list will be added to command lines
    through the automatically-generated
    $_SWIGINCFLAGS
    construction variable,
    which is constructed by
    respectively prepending and appending the values of the
    $SWIGINCPREFIX and $SWIGINCSUFFIX
    construction variables
    to the beginning and end
    of each directory in $SWIGPATH.
    Any command lines you define that need
    the SWIGPATH directory list should
    include $_SWIGINCFLAGS:
    \FC
    env = Environment(SWIGCOM="my_swig -o $TARGET $_SWIGINCFLAGS $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

SWIGVERSION
    The version number of the SWIG tool.

TAR The tar archiver.

TARCOM
    The command line used to call the tar archiver.

TARCOMSTR
    The string displayed when archiving files
    using the tar archiver.
    If this is not set, then $TARCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(TARCOMSTR = "Archiving $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

TARFLAGS
    General options passed to the tar archiver.

TARGET
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

TARGET_ARCH
    The name of the target hardware architecture for the compiled objects
    created by this Environment.
    This defaults to the value of HOST_ARCH, and the user can override it.
    Currently only set for Win32.
    Sets the target architecture for Visual Studio compiler (i.e. the arch
    of the binaries generated by the compiler). If not set, default to
    $HOST_ARCH, or, if that is unset, to the architecture of the
    running machine's OS (note that the python build or architecture has no
    effect).
    This variable must be passed as an argument to the Environment()
    constructor; setting it later has no effect.
    This is currently only used on Windows, but in the future it will be
    used on other OSes as well.
    If this is set and MSVC_VERSION is not set, this will search for
    all installed MSVC's that support the TARGET_ARCH, selecting the
    latest version for use.
    Valid values for Windows are
    \FCx86\F[],
    \FCarm\F[],
    \FCi386\F[]
    (for 32 bits);
    \FCamd64\F[],
    \FCarm64\F[],
    \FCemt64\F[],
    \FCx86_64\F[]
    (for 64 bits);
    and \FCia64\F[] (Itanium).
    For example, if you want to compile 64-bit binaries, you would set
    \FCTARGET_ARCH='x86_64'\F[] in your SCons environment.

TARGET_OS
    The name of the target operating system for the compiled objects
    created by this Environment.
    This defaults to the value of HOST_OS, and the user can override it.
    Currently only set for Win32.

TARGETS
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

TARSUFFIX
    The suffix used for tar file names.

TEMPFILEARGJOIN
    The string (or character) to be used to join the arguments passed to TEMPFILE when command line exceeds the limit set by $MAXLINELENGTH.
    The default value is a space. However for MSVC, MSLINK the default is a line seperator characters as defined by os.linesep.
    Note this value is used literally and not expanded by the subst logic.

TEMPFILEPREFIX
    The prefix for a temporary file used
    to store lines lines longer than $MAXLINELENGTH
    as operations which call out to a shell will fail
    if the line is too long, which particularly
    impacts linking.
    The default is '@', which works for the Microsoft
    and GNU toolchains on Windows.
    Set this appropriately for other toolchains,
    for example '-@' for the diab compiler
    or '-via' for ARM toolchain.

TEMPFILESUFFIX
    The suffix used for the temporary file name
    used for long command lines. The name should
    include the dot ('.') if one is wanted as
    it will not be added automatically.
    The default is '.lnk'.

TEX The TeX formatter and typesetter.

TEXCOM
    The command line used to call the TeX formatter and typesetter.

TEXCOMSTR
    The string displayed when calling
    the TeX formatter and typesetter.
    If this is not set, then $TEXCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(TEXCOMSTR = "Building $TARGET from TeX input $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

TEXFLAGS
    General options passed to the TeX formatter and typesetter.

TEXINPUTS
    List of directories that the LaTeX program will search
    for include directories.
    The LaTeX implicit dependency scanner will search these
    directories for \include and \import files.

TEXTFILEPREFIX
    The prefix used for \FCTextfile\F[] file names,
    the null string by default.

TEXTFILESUFFIX
    The suffix used for \FCTextfile\F[] file names;
    \FC.txt\F[] by default.

TOOLS
    A list of the names of the Tool specifications
    that are part of this construction environment.

UNCHANGED_SOURCES
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

UNCHANGED_TARGETS
    A reserved variable name
    that may not be set or used in a construction environment.
    (See the manpage section "Variable Substitution"
    for more information).

VENDOR
    The person or organization who supply the packaged software.
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCVendor:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for RPM packages,
    and the
    \FCManufacturer:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for MSI packages.

VERSION
    The version of the project, specified as a string.

WIN32_INSERT_DEF
    A deprecated synonym for $WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF [scons(1)].

WIN32DEFPREFIX
    A deprecated synonym for $WINDOWSDEFPREFIX [scons(1)].

WIN32DEFSUFFIX
    A deprecated synonym for $WINDOWSDEFSUFFIX [scons(1)].

WIN32EXPPREFIX
    A deprecated synonym for $WINDOWSEXPSUFFIX [scons(1)].

WIN32EXPSUFFIX
    A deprecated synonym for $WINDOWSEXPSUFFIX [scons(1)].

WINDOWS_EMBED_MANIFEST
    Set this variable to True or 1 to embed the compiler-generated manifest
    (normally \FC${TARGET}.manifest\F[])
    into all Windows exes and DLLs built with this environment,
    as a resource during their link step.
    This is done using $MT [scons(1)] and $MTEXECOM [scons(1)] and $MTSHLIBCOM [scons(1)].

WINDOWS_INSERT_DEF
    When this is set to true,
    a library build of a Windows shared library
    (\FC.dll\F[] file)
    will also build a corresponding \FC.def\F[] file
    at the same time,
    if a \FC.def\F[] file
    is not already listed as a build target.
    The default is 0 (do not build a \FC.def\F[] file).

WINDOWS_INSERT_MANIFEST
    When this is set to true,
    \FCscons\F[]
    will be aware of the
    \FC.manifest\F[]
    files generated by Microsoft Visua C/C++ 8.

WINDOWSDEFPREFIX
    The prefix used for Windows \FC.def\F[] file names.

WINDOWSDEFSUFFIX
    The suffix used for Windows \FC.def\F[] file names.

WINDOWSEXPPREFIX
    The prefix used for Windows \FC.exp\F[] file names.

WINDOWSEXPSUFFIX
    The suffix used for Windows \FC.exp\F[] file names.

WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTPREFIX
    The prefix used for executable program \FC.manifest\F[] files
    generated by Microsoft Visual C/C++.

WINDOWSPROGMANIFESTSUFFIX
    The suffix used for executable program \FC.manifest\F[] files
    generated by Microsoft Visual C/C++.

WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTPREFIX
    The prefix used for shared library \FC.manifest\F[] files
    generated by Microsoft Visual C/C++.

WINDOWSSHLIBMANIFESTSUFFIX
    The suffix used for shared library \FC.manifest\F[] files
    generated by Microsoft Visual C/C++.

X_IPK_DEPENDS
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCDepends:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg packages.

X_IPK_DESCRIPTION
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCDescription:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg packages.
    The default value is
    \FC$SUMMARY\n$DESCRIPTION\F[]

X_IPK_MAINTAINER
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCMaintainer:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg packages.

X_IPK_PRIORITY
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCPriority:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg packages.

X_IPK_SECTION
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCSection:\F[]
    field in the controlling information for Ipkg packages.

X_MSI_LANGUAGE
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCLanguage:\F[]
    attribute in the controlling information for MSI packages.

X_MSI_LICENSE_TEXT
    The text of the software license in RTF format.
    Carriage return characters will be
    replaced with the RTF equivalent \\par.

X_MSI_UPGRADE_CODE
    TODO

X_RPM_AUTOREQPROV
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCAutoReqProv:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_BUILD
    internal, but overridable

X_RPM_BUILDREQUIRES
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCBuildRequires:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.
    Note this should only be used on a host managed by rpm as the dependencies will not be resolvable at build time otherwise.

X_RPM_BUILDROOT
    internal, but overridable

X_RPM_CLEAN
    internal, but overridable

X_RPM_CONFLICTS
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCConflicts:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_DEFATTR
    This value is used as the default attributes
    for the files in the RPM package.
    The default value is
    \FC(-,root,root)\F[].

X_RPM_DISTRIBUTION
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCDistribution:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_EPOCH
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCEpoch:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_EXCLUDEARCH
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCExcludeArch:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_EXLUSIVEARCH
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCExclusiveArch:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_EXTRADEFS
    A list used to supply extra defintions or flags
    to be added to the RPM \FC.spec\F[] file.
    Each item is added as-is with a carriage return appended.
    This is useful if some specific RPM feature not otherwise
    anticipated by SCons needs to be turned on or off.
    Note if this variable is omitted, SCons will by
    default supply the value
    \FC'%global debug_package %{nil}'\F[]
    to disable debug package generation.
    To enable debug package generation, include this
    variable set either to None, or to a custom
    list that does not include the default line.
    Added in version 3.1.
    \FC
    env.Package(
        NAME             = 'foo',
    ...
        X_RPM_EXTRADEFS = [
            '%define _unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0'
            '%define _missing_doc_files_terminate_build 0'
        ],
    ... )
    \F[].fi

X_RPM_GROUP
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCGroup:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_GROUP_lang
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCGroup(lang):\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.
    Note that
    \FClang\F[]
    is not literal
    and should be replaced by
    the appropriate language code.

X_RPM_ICON
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCIcon:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_INSTALL
    internal, but overridable

X_RPM_PACKAGER
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCPackager:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_POSTINSTALL
    This is used to fill in the
    \FC%post:\F[]
    section in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_POSTUNINSTALL
    This is used to fill in the
    \FC%postun:\F[]
    section in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_PREFIX
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCPrefix:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_PREINSTALL
    This is used to fill in the
    \FC%pre:\F[]
    section in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_PREP
    internal, but overridable

X_RPM_PREUNINSTALL
    This is used to fill in the
    \FC%preun:\F[]
    section in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_PROVIDES
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCProvides:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_REQUIRES
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCRequires:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_SERIAL
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCSerial:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

X_RPM_URL
    This is used to fill in the
    \FCUrl:\F[]
    field in the RPM
    \FC.spec\F[] file.

XGETTEXT
    Path to xgettext(1) program (found via
    \FCDetect()\F[]).
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

XGETTEXTCOM
    Complete xgettext command line.
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

XGETTEXTCOMSTR
    A string that is shown when xgettext(1) command is invoked
    (default: \FC''\F[], which means "print $XGETTEXTCOM [scons(1)]").
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

_XGETTEXTDOMAIN
    Internal "macro". Generates xgettext domain name
    form source and target (default: \FC'${TARGET.filebase}'\F[]).

XGETTEXTFLAGS
    Additional flags to xgettext(1).
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

XGETTEXTFROM
    Name of file containing list of xgettext(1)'s source
    files. Autotools' users know this as \FCPOTFILES.in\F[] so they
    will in most cases set \FCXGETTEXTFROM="POTFILES.in"\F[] here.
    The $XGETTEXTFROM files have same syntax and semantics as the well known
    GNU \FCPOTFILES.in\F[].
    See \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

_XGETTEXTFROMFLAGS
    Internal "macro". Genrates list of \FC-D<dir>\F[] flags
    from the $XGETTEXTPATH [scons(1)] list.

XGETTEXTFROMPREFIX
    This flag is used to add single $XGETTEXTFROM [scons(1)] file to
    xgettext(1)'s commandline (default:
    \FC'-f'\F[]).

XGETTEXTFROMSUFFIX
    (default: \FC''\F[])

XGETTEXTPATH
    List of directories, there xgettext(1) will look for
    source files (default: \FC[]\F[]).
    Note
    This variable works only together with $XGETTEXTFROM [scons(1)]
See also \FCxgettext\F[] [scons(1)] tool and \FCPOTUpdate\F[] [scons(1)] builder.

_XGETTEXTPATHFLAGS
    Internal "macro". Generates list of \FC-f<file>\F[] flags
    from $XGETTEXTFROM [scons(1)].

XGETTEXTPATHPREFIX
    This flag is used to add single search path to
    xgettext(1)'s commandline (default:
    \FC'-D'\F[]).

XGETTEXTPATHSUFFIX
    (default: \FC''\F[])

YACC
    The parser generator.

YACCCOM
    The command line used to call the parser generator
    to generate a source file.

YACCCOMSTR
    The string displayed when generating a source file
    using the parser generator.
    If this is not set, then $YACCCOM [scons(1)] (the command line) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(YACCCOMSTR = "Yacc'ing $TARGET from $SOURCES")
    \F[].fi

YACCFLAGS
    General options passed to the parser generator.
    If $YACCFLAGS [scons(1)] contains a \FC-d\F[] option,
    SCons assumes that the call will also create a .h file
    (if the yacc source file ends in a .y suffix)
    or a .hpp file
    (if the yacc source file ends in a .yy suffix)

YACCHFILESUFFIX
    The suffix of the C
    header file generated by the parser generator
    when the
    \FC-d\F[]
    option is used.
    Note that setting this variable does not cause
    the parser generator to generate a header
    file with the specified suffix,
    it exists to allow you to specify
    what suffix the parser generator will use of its own accord.
    The default value is
    \FC.h\F[].

YACCHXXFILESUFFIX
    The suffix of the C++
    header file generated by the parser generator
    when the
    \FC-d\F[]
    option is used.
    Note that setting this variable does not cause
    the parser generator to generate a header
    file with the specified suffix,
    it exists to allow you to specify
    what suffix the parser generator will use of its own accord.
    The default value is
    \FC.hpp\F[],
    except on Mac OS X,
    where the default is
    \FC${TARGET.suffix}.h\F[].
    because the default bison parser generator just
    appends \FC.h\F[]
    to the name of the generated C++ file.

YACCVCGFILESUFFIX
    The suffix of the file
    containing the VCG grammar automaton definition
    when the
    \FC--graph=\F[]
    option is used.
    Note that setting this variable does not cause
    the parser generator to generate a VCG
    file with the specified suffix,
    it exists to allow you to specify
    what suffix the parser generator will use of its own accord.
    The default value is
    \FC.vcg\F[].

ZIP The zip compression and file packaging utility.

ZIPCOM
    The command line used to call the zip utility,
    or the internal Python function used to create a
    zip archive.

ZIPCOMPRESSION
    The
    \FCcompression\F[]
    flag
    from the Python
    \FCzipfile\F[]
    module used by the internal Python function
    to control whether the zip archive
    is compressed or not.
    The default value is
    \FCzipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED\F[],
    which creates a compressed zip archive.
    This value has no effect if the
    \FCzipfile\F[]
    module is unavailable.

ZIPCOMSTR
    The string displayed when archiving files
    using the zip utility.
    If this is not set, then $ZIPCOM [scons(1)]
    (the command line or internal Python function) is displayed.
    \FC
    env = Environment(ZIPCOMSTR = "Zipping $TARGET")
    \F[].fi

ZIPFLAGS
    General options passed to the zip utility.

ZIPROOT
    An optional zip root directory (default empty). The filenames stored
    in the zip file will be relative to this directory, if given.
    Otherwise the filenames are relative to the current directory of the
    command.
    For instance:
    \FC
    env = Environment()
    env.Zip('foo.zip', 'subdir1/subdir2/file1', ZIPROOT='subdir1')
    \F[].fi
    will produce a zip file \FCfoo.zip\F[]
    containing a file with the name
    \FCsubdir2/file1\F[] rather than
    \FCsubdir1/subdir2/file1\F[].

ZIPSUFFIX
    The suffix used for zip file names.

Construction variables can be retrieved and set using the
Dictionary
method of the construction environment:

cvars = env.Dictionary()
cvars["CC"] = "cc"

or using the key lookup operator \FC[]\F[] directly on the construction environment:

env["CC"] = "cc"

Construction variables can also be passed to the construction environment constructor:

env = Environment(CC="cc")

or when copying a construction environment using the Clone method:

env2 = env.Clone(CC="cl.exe")

  CONFIGURE CONTEXTS
scons supports configure contexts, an integrated mechanism similar to the various AC_CHECK macros in GNU autoconf for testing for the existence of C header files, libraries, etc. In contrast to autoconf, scons does not maintain an explicit cache of the tested values, but uses its normal dependency tracking to keep the checked values up to date. However, users may override this behaviour with the \FC--config\F[] command line option.

The following methods can be used to perform checks:

Configure(env, [custom_tests, conf_dir, log_file, config_h, clean, help]), env.Configure([custom_tests, conf_dir, log_file, config_h, clean, help])
    This creates a configure context, which can be used to perform checks. env specifies the environment for building the tests. This environment may be modified when performing checks. custom_tests is a dictionary containing custom tests. See also the section about custom tests below. By default, no custom tests are added to the configure context. conf_dir specifies a directory where the test cases are built. Note that this directory is not used for building normal targets. The default value is the directory #/.sconf_temp. log_file specifies a file which collects the output from commands that are executed to check for the existence of header files, libraries, etc. The default is the file #/config.log. If you are using the VariantDir() method, you may want to specify a subdirectory under your variant directory. config_h specifies a C header file where the results of tests will be written, e.g. #define HAVE_STDIO_H, #define HAVE_LIBM, etc. The default is to not write a config.h file. You can specify the same config.h file in multiple calls to Configure, in which case scons will concatenate all results in the specified file. Note that SCons uses its normal dependency checking to decide if it's necessary to rebuild the specified config_h file. This means that the file is not necessarily re-built each time scons is run, but is only rebuilt if its contents will have changed and some target that depends on the config_h file is being built. The optional clean and help arguments can be used to suppress execution of the configuration tests when the \FC-c/--clean\F[] or \FC-H/-h/--help\F[] options are used, respectively. The default behavior is always to execute configure context tests, since the results of the tests may affect the list of targets to be cleaned or the help text. If the configure tests do not affect these, then you may add the clean=False or help=False arguments (or both) to avoid unnecessary test execution.

A created Configure instance has the following associated methods:

SConf.Finish(context), sconf.Finish()
    This method should be called after configuration is done. It returns the environment as modified by the configuration checks performed. After this method is called, no further checks can be performed with this configuration context. However, you can create a new Configure context to perform additional checks. Only one context should be active at a time. The following Checks are predefined. (This list will likely grow larger as time goes by and developers contribute new useful tests.)

SConf.CheckHeader(context, header, [include_quotes, language]), sconf.CheckHeader(header, [include_quotes, language])
    Checks if header is usable in the specified language. header may be a list, in which case the last item in the list is the header file to be checked, and the previous list items are header files whose #include lines should precede the header line being checked for. The optional argument include_quotes must be a two character string, where the first character denotes the opening quote and the second character denotes the closing quote. By default, both characters are " (double quote). The optional argument language should be either C or C++ and selects the compiler to be used for the check. Returns 1 on success and 0 on failure.

SConf.CheckCHeader(context, header, [include_quotes]), sconf.CheckCHeader(header, [include_quotes])
    This is a wrapper around SConf.CheckHeader which checks if header is usable in the C language. header may be a list, in which case the last item in the list is the header file to be checked, and the previous list items are header files whose #include lines should precede the header line being checked for. The optional argument include_quotes must be a two character string, where the first character denotes the opening quote and the second character denotes the closing quote (both default to \N'34'). Returns 1 on success and 0 on failure.

SConf.CheckCXXHeader(context, header, [include_quotes]), sconf.CheckCXXHeader(header, [include_quotes])
    This is a wrapper around SConf.CheckHeader which checks if header is usable in the C++ language. header may be a list, in which case the last item in the list is the header file to be checked, and the previous list items are header files whose #include lines should precede the header line being checked for. The optional argument include_quotes must be a two character string, where the first character denotes the opening quote and the second character denotes the closing quote (both default to \N'34'). Returns 1 on success and 0 on failure.

SConf.CheckFunc(context,, function_name, [header, language]), sconf.CheckFunc(function_name, [header, language])
    Checks if the specified C or C++ function is available. function_name is the name of the function to check for. The optional header argument is a string that will be placed at the top of the test file that will be compiled to check if the function exists; the default is:
    #ifdef __cplusplus
    extern "C"
    #endif
    char function_name();
    The optional language argument should be C or C++ and selects the compiler to be used for the check; the default is "C".

SConf.CheckLib(context, [library, symbol, header, language, autoadd=1]), sconf.CheckLib([library, symbol, header, language, autoadd=1])
    Checks if library provides symbol. If the value of autoadd is 1 and the library provides the specified symbol, appends the library to the LIBS construction environment variable. library may also be None (the default), in which case symbol is checked with the current LIBS variable, or a list of library names, in which case each library in the list will be checked for symbol. If symbol is not set or is None, then SConf.CheckLib() just checks if you can link against the specified library. The optional language argument should be C or C++ and selects the compiler to be used for the check; the default is "C". The default value for autoadd is 1. This method returns 1 on success and 0 on error.

SConf.CheckLibWithHeader(context, library, header, language, [call, autoadd]), sconf.CheckLibWithHeader(library, header, language, [call, autoadd])
    In contrast to the SConf.CheckLib call, this call provides a more sophisticated way to check against libraries. Again, library specifies the library or a list of libraries to check. header specifies a header to check for. header may be a list, in which case the last item in the list is the header file to be checked, and the previous list items are header files whose #include lines should precede the header line being checked for. language may be one of 'C','c','CXX','cxx','C++' and 'c++'. call can be any valid expression (with a trailing ';'). If call is not set, the default simply checks that you can link against the specified library. autoadd specifies whether to add the library to the environment (only if the check succeeds). This method returns 1 on success and 0 on error.

SConf.CheckType(context, type_name, [includes, language]), sconf.CheckType(type_name, [includes, language])
    Checks for the existence of a type defined by typedef. type_name specifies the typedef name to check for. includes is a string containing one or more #include lines that will be inserted into the program that will be run to test for the existence of the type. The optional language argument should be C or C++ and selects the compiler to be used for the check; the default is "C". Example:
    sconf.CheckType('foo_type', '#include "my_types.h"', 'C++')

Configure.CheckCC(self)
    Checks whether the C compiler (as defined by the CC construction variable) works by trying to compile a small source file. By default, SCons only detects if there is a program with the correct name, not if it is a functioning compiler. This uses the exact same command than the one used by the object builder for C source file, so it can be used to detect if a particular compiler flag works or not.

Configure.CheckCXX(self)
    Checks whether the C++ compiler (as defined by the CXX construction variable) works by trying to compile a small source file. By default, SCons only detects if there is a program with the correct name, not if it is a functioning compiler. This uses the exact same command than the one used by the object builder for CXX source files, so it can be used to detect if a particular compiler flag works or not.

Configure.CheckSHCC(self)
    Checks whether the C compiler (as defined by the SHCC construction variable) works by trying to compile a small source file. By default, SCons only detects if there is a program with the correct name, not if it is a functioning compiler. This uses the exact same command than the one used by the object builder for C source file, so it can be used to detect if a particular compiler flag works or not. This does not check whether the object code can be used to build a shared library, only that the compilation (not link) succeeds.

Configure.CheckSHCXX(self)
    Checks whether the C++ compiler (as defined by the SHCXX construction variable) works by trying to compile a small source file. By default, SCons only detects if there is a program with the correct name, not if it is a functioning compiler. This uses the exact same command than the one used by the object builder for CXX source files, so it can be used to detect if a particular compiler flag works or not. This does not check whether the object code can be used to build a shared library, only that the compilation (not link) succeeds.

Example of a typical Configure usage:

env = Environment()
conf = Configure( env )
if not conf.CheckCHeader( 'math.h' ):
    print('We really need math.h!')
    Exit(1)
if conf.CheckLibWithHeader( 'qt', 'qapp.h', 'c++',
        'QApplication qapp(0,0);' ):
    # do stuff for qt - usage, e.g.
    conf.env.Append( CPPFLAGS = '-DWITH_QT' )
env = conf.Finish()

SConf.CheckTypeSize(context, type_name, [header, language, expect]), sconf.CheckTypeSize(type_name, [header, language, expect])
    Checks for the size of a type defined by typedef. type_name specifies the typedef name to check for. The optional header argument is a string that will be placed at the top of the test file that will be compiled to check if the function exists; the default is empty. The optional language argument should be C or C++ and selects the compiler to be used for the check; the default is "C". The optional expect argument should be an integer. If this argument is used, the function will only check whether the type given in type_name has the expected size (in bytes). For example, CheckTypeSize('short', expect = 2) will return success only if short is two bytes.

SConf.CheckDeclaration(context, symbol, [includes, language]), sconf.CheckDeclaration(symbol, [includes, language])
    Checks if the specified symbol is declared. includes is a string containing one or more #include lines that will be inserted into the program that will be run to test for the existence of the type. The optional language argument should be C or C++ and selects the compiler to be used for the check; the default is "C".

SConf.Define(context, symbol, [value, comment]), sconf.Define(symbol, [value, comment])
    This function does not check for anything, but defines a preprocessor symbol that will be added to the configuration header file. It is the equivalent of AC_DEFINE, and defines the symbol name with the optional value and the optional comment comment.

Examples:

\FC
env = Environment()
conf = Configure( env )
# Puts the following line in the config header file:
#    #define A_SYMBOL
conf.Define('A_SYMBOL')
# Puts the following line in the config header file:
#    #define A_SYMBOL 1
conf.Define('A_SYMBOL', 1)
\F[].fi

Be careful about quoting string values, though:

\FC
env = Environment()
conf = Configure( env )
# Puts the following line in the config header file:
#    #define A_SYMBOL YA
conf.Define('A_SYMBOL', "YA")
# Puts the following line in the config header file:
#    #define A_SYMBOL "YA"
conf.Define('A_SYMBOL', '"YA"')
\F[].fi

For comment:

\FC
env = Environment()
conf = Configure( env )
# Puts the following lines in the config header file:
#    /* Set to 1 if you have a symbol */
#    #define A_SYMBOL 1
conf.Define('A_SYMBOL', 1, 'Set to 1 if you have a symbol')
\F[].fi

You can define your own custom checks.
in addition to the predefined checks.
These are passed in a dictionary to the Configure function.
This dictionary maps the names of the checks
to user defined Python callables
(either Python functions or class instances implementing the
__call__
method).
The first argument of the call is always a
CheckContext
instance followed by the arguments,
which must be supplied by the user of the check.
These CheckContext instances define the following methods:

CheckContext.Message(self, text)
    Usually called before the check is started.
    text
    will be displayed to the user, e.g. 'Checking for library X...'

CheckContext.Result(self,, res)
    Usually called after the check is done.
    res
    can be either an integer or a string. In the former case, 'yes' (res != 0)
    or 'no' (res == 0) is displayed to the user, in the latter case the
    given string is displayed.

CheckContext.TryCompile(self, text, extension)
    Checks if a file with the specified
    extension
    (e.g. '.c') containing
    text
    can be compiled using the environment's
    Object
    builder. Returns 1 on success and 0 on failure.

CheckContext.TryLink(self, text, extension)
    Checks, if a file with the specified
    extension
    (e.g. '.c') containing
    text
    can be compiled using the environment's
    Program
    builder. Returns 1 on success and 0 on failure.

CheckContext.TryRun(self, text, extension)
    Checks, if a file with the specified
    extension
    (e.g. '.c') containing
    text
    can be compiled using the environment's
    Program
    builder. On success, the program is run. If the program
    executes successfully
    (that is, its return status is 0),
    a tuple
    (1, outputStr)
    is returned, where
    outputStr
    is the standard output of the
    program.
    If the program fails execution
    (its return status is non-zero),
    then (0, '') is returned.

CheckContext.TryAction(self, action, [text, extension])
    Checks if the specified
    action
    with an optional source file (contents
    text
    , extension
    extension
    = ''
    ) can be executed.
    action
    may be anything which can be converted to a
    scons
    Action.
    On success,
    (1, outputStr)
    is returned, where
    outputStr
    is the content of the target file.
    On failure
    (0, '')
    is returned.

CheckContext.TryBuild(self, builder, [text, extension])
    Low level implementation for testing specific builds;
    the methods above are based on this method.
    Given the Builder instance
    builder
    and the optional
    text
    of a source file with optional
    extension,
    this method returns 1 on success and 0 on failure. In addition,
    self.lastTarget
    is set to the build target node, if the build was successful.

Example for implementing and using custom tests:

\FC
def CheckQt(context, qtdir):
    context.Message( 'Checking for qt ...' )
    lastLIBS = context.env['LIBS']
    lastLIBPATH = context.env['LIBPATH']
    lastCPPPATH= context.env['CPPPATH']
    context.env.Append(LIBS = 'qt', LIBPATH = qtdir + '/lib', CPPPATH = qtdir + '/include' )
    ret = context.TryLink("""
#include <qapp.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
  QApplication qapp(argc, argv);
  return 0;
}
""")
    if not ret:
        context.env.Replace(LIBS = lastLIBS, LIBPATH=lastLIBPATH, CPPPATH=lastCPPPATH)
    context.Result( ret )
    return ret
env = Environment()
conf = Configure( env, custom_tests = { 'CheckQt' : CheckQt } )
if not conf.CheckQt('/usr/lib/qt'):
    print('We really need qt!')
    Exit(1)
env = conf.Finish()
\F[].fi

  COMMAND-LINE CONSTRUCTION VARIABLES
Often when building software, some variables must be specified at build time. For example, libraries needed for the build may be in non-standard locations, or site-specific compiler options may need to be passed to the compiler. scons provides a Variables object to support overriding construction variables on the command line:

$ scons VARIABLE=foo

The variable values can also be specified in a text-based SConscript file. To create a Variables object, call the Variables() function:

Variables([files], [args])
    This creates a Variables object that will read construction variables from the file or list of filenames specified in files. If no files are specified, or the files argument is None, then no files will be read. The optional argument args is a dictionary of values that will override anything read from the specified files; it is primarily intended to be passed the ARGUMENTS dictionary that holds variables specified on the command line. Example:
    vars = Variables('custom.py')
    vars = Variables('overrides.py', ARGUMENTS)
    vars = Variables(None, {FOO:'expansion', BAR:7})
    Variables objects have the following methods:

Add(key, [help, default, validator, converter])
    This adds a customizable construction variable to the Variables object. key is the name of the variable. help is the help text for the variable. default is the default value of the variable; if the default value is None and there is no explicit value specified, the construction variable will not be added to the construction environment. validator is called to validate the value of the variable, and should take three arguments: key, value, and environment. The recommended way to handle an invalid value is to raise an exception (see example below). converter is called to convert the value before putting it in the environment, and should take either a value, or the value and environment, as parameters. The converter must return a value, which will be converted into a string before being validated by the validator (if any) and then added to the environment. Examples:
    \FC
    vars.Add('CC', 'The C compiler')
    def validate_color(key, val, env):
        if not val in ['red', 'blue', 'yellow']:
            raise Exception("Invalid color value '%s'" % val)
    vars.Add('COLOR', validator=valid_color)
    \F[].fi

AddVariables(list)
    A wrapper script that adds
    multiple customizable construction variables
    to a Variables object.
    list
    is a list of tuple or list objects
    that contain the arguments
    for an individual call to the
    Add
    method.
    opt.AddVariables(
           ('debug', '', 0),
           ('CC', 'The C compiler'),
           ('VALIDATE', 'An option for testing validation',
            'notset', validator, None),
        )

Update(env, [args])
    This updates a construction environment env with the customized construction variables. Any specified variables that are not configured for the Variables object will be saved and may be retrieved with the UnknownVariables() method, below. Normally this method is not called directly, but is called indirectly by passing the Variables object to the Environment() function:
    env = Environment(variables=vars)

The text file(s) that were specified when the Variables object was created are executed as Python scripts, and the values of (global) Python variables set in the file are added to the construction environment.

Example:

CC = 'my_cc'

UnknownVariables()
    Returns a dictionary containing any variables that were specified either in the files or the dictionary with which the Variables object was initialized, but for which the Variables object was not configured.
    env = Environment(variables=vars)
    for key, value in vars.UnknownVariables():
        print("unknown variable:  %s=%s" % (key, value))

Save(filename, env)
    This saves the currently set variables into a script file named filename that can be used on the next invocation to automatically load the current settings. This method combined with the Variables method can be used to support caching of variables between runs.
    env = Environment()
    vars = Variables(['variables.cache', 'custom.py'])
    vars.Add(...)
    vars.Update(env)
    vars.Save('variables.cache', env)

GenerateHelpText(env, [sort])
    This generates help text documenting the customizable construction variables suitable to passing in to the Help() function. env is the construction environment that will be used to get the actual values of customizable variables. Calling with an optional sort function will cause the output to be sorted by the specified argument. The specific sort function should take two arguments and return -1, 0 or 1 (like the standard Python cmp function). Optionally a Boolean value of True for sort will cause a standard alphabetical sort to be performed
    Help(vars.GenerateHelpText(env))
    Help(vars.GenerateHelpText(env, sort=cmp))

FormatVariableHelpText(env, opt, help, default, actual)
    This method returns a formatted string containing the printable help text for one option. It is normally not called directly, but is called by the GenerateHelpText() method to create the returned help text. It may be overridden with your own function that takes the arguments specified above and returns a string of help text formatted to your liking. Note that the GenerateHelpText() will not put any blank lines or extra characters in between the entries, so you must add those characters to the returned string if you want the entries separated.
    \FC
    def my_format(env, opt, help, default, actual):
        fmt = "\n%s: default=%s actual=%s (%s)\n"
        return fmt % (opt, default. actual, help)
    vars.FormatVariableHelpText = my_format
    \F[].fi
    To make it more convenient to work with customizable Variables,
    scons
    provides a number of functions
    that make it easy to set up
    various types of Variables:

BoolVariable(key, help, default)
    Return a tuple of arguments
    to set up a Boolean option.
    The option will use
    the specified name
    key,
    have a default value of
    default,
    and display the specified
    help
    text.
    The option will interpret the values
    y,
    yes,
    t,
    true,
    \FC1\F[],
    on
    and
    all
    as true,
    and the values
    n,
    no,
    f,
    false,
    \FC0\F[],
    off
    and
    none
    as false.

EnumVariable(key, help, default, allowed_values, [map, ignorecase])
    Return a tuple of arguments
    to set up an option
    whose value may be one
    of a specified list of legal enumerated values.
    The option will use
    the specified name
    key,
    have a default value of
    default,
    and display the specified
    help
    text.
    The option will only support those
    values in the
    allowed_values
    list.
    The optional
    map
    argument is a dictionary
    that can be used to convert
    input values into specific legal values
    in the
    allowed_values
    list.
    If the value of
    ignore_case
    is
    \FC0\F[]
    (the default),
    then the values are case-sensitive.
    If the value of
    ignore_case
    is
    \FC1\F[],
    then values will be matched
    case-insensitive.
    If the value of
    ignore_case
    is
    \FC2\F[],
    then values will be matched
    case-insensitive,
    and all input values will be
    converted to lower case.

ListVariable(key, help, default, names, [,map])
    Return a tuple of arguments
    to set up an option
    whose value may be one or more
    of a specified list of legal enumerated values.
    The option will use
    the specified name
    key,
    have a default value of
    default,
    and display the specified
    help
    text.
    The option will only support the values
    all,
    none,
    or the values in the
    names
    list.
    More than one value may be specified,
    with all values separated by commas.
    The default may be a string of
    comma-separated default values,
    or a list of the default values.
    The optional
    map
    argument is a dictionary
    that can be used to convert
    input values into specific legal values
    in the
    names
    list.

PackageVariable(key, help, default)
    Return a tuple of arguments
    to set up an option
    whose value is a path name
    of a package that may be
    enabled, disabled or
    given an explicit path name.
    The option will use
    the specified name
    key,
    have a default value of
    default,
    and display the specified
    help
    text.
    The option will support the values
    yes,
    true,
    on,
    enable
    or
    search,
    in which case the specified
    default
    will be used,
    or the option may be set to an
    arbitrary string
    (typically the path name to a package
    that is being enabled).
    The option will also support the values
    no,
    false,
    off
    or
    disable
    to disable use of the specified option.

PathVariable(key, help, default, [validator])
    Return a tuple of arguments
    to set up an option
    whose value is expected to be a path name.
    The option will use
    the specified name
    key,
    have a default value of
    default,
    and display the specified
    help
    text.
    An additional
    validator
    may be specified
    that will be called to
    verify that the specified path
    is acceptable.
    SCons supplies the
    following ready-made validators:
    PathVariable.PathExists
    (the default),
    which verifies that the specified path exists;
    PathVariable.PathIsFile,
    which verifies that the specified path is an existing file;
    PathVariable.PathIsDir,
    which verifies that the specified path is an existing directory;
    PathVariable.PathIsDirCreate,
    which verifies that the specified path is a directory
    and will create the specified directory if the path does not exist;
    and
    PathVariable.PathAccept,
    which simply accepts the specific path name argument without validation,
    and which is suitable if you want your users
    to be able to specify a directory path that will be
    created as part of the build process, for example.
    You may supply your own
    validator
    function,
    which must take three arguments
    (key,
    the name of the variable to be set;
    val,
    the specified value being checked;
    and
    env,
    the construction environment)
    and should raise an exception
    if the specified value is not acceptable.

These functions make it
convenient to create a number
of variables with consistent behavior
in a single call to the
AddVariables
method:

vars.AddVariables(
    BoolVariable('warnings', 'compilation with -Wall and similiar', 1),
    EnumVariable('debug', 'debug output and symbols', 'no'
               allowed_values=('yes', 'no', 'full'),
               map={}, ignorecase=0),  # case sensitive
    ListVariable('shared',
               'libraries to build as shared libraries',
               'all',
               names = list_of_libs),
    PackageVariable('x11',
                  'use X11 installed here (yes = search some places)',
                  'yes'),
    PathVariable('qtdir', 'where the root of Qt is installed', qtdir),
    PathVariable('foopath', 'where the foo library is installed', foopath,
               PathVariable.PathIsDir),
)

  FILE AND DIRECTORY NODES
The File() and Dir() functions return File and Dir Nodes, respectively. Python objects, respectively. Those objects have several user-visible attributes and methods that are often useful:

path
    The build path of the given file or directory. This path is relative to the top-level directory (where the SConstruct file is found). The build path is the same as the source path if variant_dir is not being used.

abspath
    The absolute build path of the given file or directory.

srcnode()
    The srcnode() method returns another File or Dir object representing the source path of the given File or Dir. The
    # Get the current build dir's path, relative to top.
    Dir('.').path
    # Current dir's absolute path
    Dir('.').abspath
    # Next line is always '.', because it is the top dir's path relative to itself.
    Dir('#.').path
    File('foo.c').srcnode().path   # source path of the given source file.
    # Builders also return File objects:
    foo = env.Program('foo.c')
    print("foo will be built in %s"%foo.path)
    A Dir Node or File Node can also be used to create file and subdirectory Nodes relative to the generating Node. A Dir Node will place the new Nodes within the directory it represents. A File node will place the new Nodes within its parent directory (that is, "beside" the file in question). If d is a Dir (directory) Node and f is a File (file) Node, then these methods are available:

d.Dir(name)
    Returns a directory Node for a subdirectory of d named name.

d.File(name)
    Returns a file Node for a file within d named name.

d.Entry(name)
    Returns an unresolved Node within d named name.

f.Dir(name)
    Returns a directory named name within the parent directory of f.

f.File(name)
    Returns a file named name within the parent directory of f.

f.Entry(name)
    Returns an unresolved Node named name within the parent directory of f.

For example:

# Get a Node for a file within a directory
incl = Dir('include')
f = incl.File('header.h')
# Get a Node for a subdirectory within a directory
dist = Dir('project-3.2.1')
src = dist.Dir('src')
# Get a Node for a file in the same directory
cfile = File('sample.c')
hfile = cfile.File('sample.h')
# Combined example
docs = Dir('docs')
html = docs.Dir('html')
index = html.File('index.html')
css = index.File('app.css')

EXTENDING SCONS

  BUILDER OBJECTS
scons can be extended to build different types of targets by adding new Builder objects to a construction environment. In general, you should only need to add a new Builder object when you want to build a new type of file or other external target. If you just want to invoke a different compiler or other tool to build a Program, Object, Library, or any other type of output file for which scons already has an existing Builder, it is generally much easier to use those existing Builders in a construction environment that sets the appropriate construction variables (CC, LINK, etc.).

Builder objects are created using the Builder function. The Builder function accepts the following arguments:

action
    The command line string used to build the target from the source. action can also be: a list of strings representing the command to be executed and its arguments (suitable for enclosing white space in an argument), a dictionary mapping source file name suffixes to any combination of command line strings (if the builder should accept multiple source file extensions), a Python function; an Action object (see the next section); or a list of any of the above. An action function takes three arguments: source - a list of source nodes, target - a list of target nodes, env - the construction environment.

prefix
    The prefix that will be prepended to the target file name. This may be specified as a:
    * string, * callable object - a function or other callable that takes two arguments (a construction environment and a list of sources) and returns a prefix, * dictionary - specifies a mapping from a specific source suffix (of the first source specified) to a corresponding target prefix. Both the source suffix and target prefix specifications may use environment variable substitution, and the target prefix (the 'value' entries in the dictionary) may also be a callable object. The default target prefix may be indicated by a dictionary entry with a key value of None.

\FC
b = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET",
            prefix = "file-")
def gen_prefix(env, sources):
    return "file-" + env['PLATFORM'] + '-'
b = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET",
            prefix = gen_prefix)
b = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET",
            suffix = { None: "file-",
                       "$SRC_SFX_A": gen_prefix })
\F[].fi

suffix
    The suffix that will be appended to the target file name.
    This may be specified in the same manner as the prefix above.
    If the suffix is a string, then
    scons
    will append a '.' to the beginning of the suffix if it's not already
    there. The string returned by callable object (or obtained from the
    dictionary) is untouched and must append its own '.' to the beginning
    if one is desired.
    \FC
    b = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET"
                suffix = "-file")
    def gen_suffix(env, sources):
        return "." + env['PLATFORM'] + "-file"
    b = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET",
                suffix = gen_suffix)
    b = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET",
                suffix = { None: ".sfx1",
                           "$SRC_SFX_A": gen_suffix })
    \F[].fi

ensure_suffix
    When set to any true value, causes
    scons
    to add the target suffix specified by the
    suffix
    keyword to any target strings
    that have a different suffix.
    (The default behavior is to leave untouched
    any target file name that looks like it already has any suffix.)
    b1 = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET"
                 suffix = ".out")
    b2 = Builder("build_it < $SOURCE > $TARGET"
                 suffix = ".out",
                 ensure_suffix)
    env = Environment()
    env['BUILDERS']['B1'] = b1
    env['BUILDERS']['B2'] = b2
    # Builds "foo.txt" because ensure_suffix is not set.
    env.B1('foo.txt', 'foo.in')
    # Builds "bar.txt.out" because ensure_suffix is set.
    env.B2('bar.txt', 'bar.in')

src_suffix
    The expected source file name suffix. This may be a string or a list of strings.

target_scanner
    A Scanner object that will be invoked to find implicit dependencies for this target file. This keyword argument should be used for Scanner objects that find implicit dependencies based only on the target file and the construction environment, not for implicit dependencies based on source files. (See the section "Scanner Objects" below, for information about creating Scanner objects.)

source_scanner
    A Scanner object that will be invoked to find implicit dependencies in any source files used to build this target file. This is where you would specify a scanner to find things like #include lines in source files. The pre-built DirScanner Scanner object may be used to indicate that this Builder should scan directory trees for on-disk changes to files that scons does not know about from other Builder or function calls. (See the section "Scanner Objects" below, for information about creating your own Scanner objects.)

target_factory
    A factory function that the Builder will use to turn any targets specified as strings into SCons Nodes. By default, SCons assumes that all targets are files. Other useful target_factory values include Dir, for when a Builder creates a directory target, and Entry, for when a Builder can create either a file or directory target. Example:
    MakeDirectoryBuilder = Builder(action=my_mkdir, target_factory=Dir)
    env = Environment()
    env.Append(BUILDERS = {'MakeDirectory':MakeDirectoryBuilder})
    env.MakeDirectory('new_directory', [])
    Note that the call to the MakeDirectory Builder needs to specify an empty source list to make the string represent the builder's target; without that, it would assume the argument is the source, and would try to deduce the target name from it, which in the absence of an automatically-added prefix or suffix would lead to a matching target and source name and a circular dependency.

source_factory
    A factory function that the Builder will use to turn any sources specified as strings into SCons Nodes. By default, SCons assumes that all source are files. Other useful source_factory values include Dir, for when a Builder uses a directory as a source, and Entry, for when a Builder can use files or directories (or both) as sources. Example:
    \FC
    CollectBuilder = Builder(action=my_mkdir, source_factory=Entry)
    env = Environment()
    env.Append(BUILDERS = {'Collect':CollectBuilder})
    env.Collect('archive', ['directory_name', 'file_name'])
    \F[].fi

emitter
    A function or list of functions to manipulate the target and source
    lists before dependencies are established
    and the target(s) are actually built.
    emitter
    can also be a string containing a construction variable to expand
    to an emitter function or list of functions,
    or a dictionary mapping source file suffixes
    to emitter functions.
    (Only the suffix of the first source file
    is used to select the actual emitter function
    from an emitter dictionary.)
    An emitter function
    takes three arguments:
    source
    - a list of source nodes,
    target
    - a list of target nodes,
    env
    - the construction environment.
    An emitter must return a tuple containing two lists,
    the list of targets to be built by this builder,
    and the list of sources for this builder.
    Example:
    \FC
    def e(target, source, env):
        return (target + ['foo.foo'], source + ['foo.src'])
    # Simple association of an emitter function with a Builder.
    b = Builder("my_build < $TARGET > $SOURCE",
                emitter = e)
    def e2(target, source, env):
        return (target + ['bar.foo'], source + ['bar.src'])
    # Simple association of a list of emitter functions with a Builder.
    b = Builder("my_build < $TARGET > $SOURCE",
                emitter = [e, e2])
    # Calling an emitter function through a construction variable.
    env = Environment(MY_EMITTER = e)
    b = Builder("my_build < $TARGET > $SOURCE",
                emitter = '$MY_EMITTER')
    # Calling a list of emitter functions through a construction variable.
    env = Environment(EMITTER_LIST = [e, e2])
    b = Builder("my_build < $TARGET > $SOURCE",
                emitter = '$EMITTER_LIST')
    # Associating multiple emitters with different file
    # suffixes using a dictionary.
    def e_suf1(target, source, env):
        return (target + ['another_target_file'], source)
    def e_suf2(target, source, env):
        return (target, source + ['another_source_file'])
    b = Builder("my_build < $TARGET > $SOURCE",
                emitter = {'.suf1' : e_suf1,
                           '.suf2' : e_suf2})
    \F[].fi

multi
    Specifies whether this builder is allowed to be called multiple times for
    the same target file(s). The default is 0, which means the builder
    can not be called multiple times for the same target file(s). Calling a
    builder multiple times for the same target simply adds additional source
    files to the target; it is not allowed to change the environment associated
    with the target, specify additional environment overrides,
    or associate a different
    builder with the target.

env A construction environment that can be used
    to fetch source code using this Builder.
    (Note that this environment is
    not
    used for normal builds of normal target files,
    which use the environment that was
    used to call the Builder for the target file.)

generator
    A function that returns a list of actions that will be executed to build
    the target(s) from the source(s).
    The returned action(s) may be
    an Action object, or anything that
    can be converted into an Action object
    (see the next section).
    The generator function
    takes four arguments:
    source
    - a list of source nodes,
    target
    - a list of target nodes,
    env
    - the construction environment,
    for_signature
    - a Boolean value that specifies
    whether the generator is being called
    for generating a build signature
    (as opposed to actually executing the command).
    Example:
    \FC
    def g(source, target, env, for_signature):
        return [["gcc", "-c", "-o"] + target + source]
    b = Builder(generator=g)
    \F[].fi
    The
    generator
    and
    action
    arguments must not both be used for the same Builder.

src_builder
    Specifies a builder to use when a source file name suffix does not match
    any of the suffixes of the builder. Using this argument produces a
    multi-stage builder.

single_source
    Specifies that this builder expects exactly one source file per call. Giving
    more than one source file without target files results in implicitly calling
    the builder multiple times (once for each source given). Giving multiple
    source files together with target files results in a UserError exception.

The
generator
and
action
arguments must not both be used for the same Builder.

source_ext_match
    When the specified
    action
    argument is a dictionary,
    the default behavior when a builder is passed
    multiple source files is to make sure that the
    extensions of all the source files match.
    If it is legal for this builder to be
    called with a list of source files with different extensions,
    this check can be suppressed by setting
    source_ext_match
    to
    None
    or some other non-true value.
    When
    source_ext_match
    is disable,
    scons
    will use the suffix of the first specified
    source file to select the appropriate action from the
    action
    dictionary.
    In the following example,
    the setting of
    source_ext_match
    prevents
    scons
    from exiting with an error
    due to the mismatched suffixes of
    foo.in
    and
    foo.extra.
    b = Builder(action={'.in' : 'build $SOURCES > $TARGET'},
                source_ext_match = None)
    env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'MyBuild':b})
    env.MyBuild('foo.out', ['foo.in', 'foo.extra'])

env A construction environment that can be used to fetch source code using this Builder. (Note that this environment is not used for normal builds of normal target files, which use the environment that was used to call the Builder for the target file.)
    b = Builder(action="build < $SOURCE > $TARGET")
    env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'MyBuild' : b})
    env.MyBuild('foo.out', 'foo.in', my_arg = 'xyzzy')

chdir
    A directory from which scons will execute the action(s) specified for this Builder. If the chdir argument is a string or a directory Node, scons will change to the specified directory. If the chdir is not a string or Node and is non-zero, then scons will change to the target file's directory. Note that scons will not automatically modify its expansion of construction variables like $TARGET and $SOURCE when using the chdir keyword argument--that is, the expanded file names will still be relative to the top-level SConstruct directory, and consequently incorrect relative to the chdir directory. Builders created using chdir keyword argument, will need to use construction variable expansions like ${TARGET.file} and ${SOURCE.file} to use just the filename portion of the targets and source.
    b = Builder(action="build < ${SOURCE.file} > ${TARGET.file}",
                chdir=1)
    env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'MyBuild' : b})
    env.MyBuild('sub/dir/foo.out', 'sub/dir/foo.in')
    WARNING: Python only keeps one current directory location for all of the threads. This means that use of the chdir argument will not work with the SCons \FC-j\F[] option, because individual worker threads spawned by SCons interfere with each other when they start changing directory.

Any additional keyword arguments supplied when a Builder object is created (that is, when the Builder() function is called) will be set in the executing construction environment when the Builder object is called. The canonical example here would be to set a construction variable to the repository of a source code system.

Any additional keyword arguments supplied when a Builder object is called will only be associated with the target created by that particular Builder call (and any other files built as a result of the call).

These extra keyword arguments are passed to the following functions: command generator functions, function Actions, and emitter functions.

  ACTION OBJECTS
The Builder() function will turn its action keyword argument into an appropriate internal Action object. You can also explicitly create Action objects using the Action() global function, which can then be passed to the Builder() function. This can be used to configure an Action object more flexibly, or it may simply be more efficient than letting each separate Builder object create a separate Action when multiple Builder objects need to do the same thing.

The Action() global function returns an appropriate object for the action represented by the type of the first argument:

Action
    If the first argument is already an Action object, the object is simply returned.

String
    If the first argument is a string, a command-line Action is returned. Note that the command-line string may be preceded by an @ (at-sign) to suppress printing of the specified command line, or by a - (hyphen) to ignore the exit status from the specified command:
    Action('$CC -c -o $TARGET $SOURCES')
    # Doesn't print the line being executed.
    Action('@build $TARGET $SOURCES')
    # Ignores return value
    Action('-build $TARGET $SOURCES')

List
    If the first argument is a list, then a list of Action objects is returned. An Action object is created as necessary for each element in the list. If an element within the list is itself a list, the internal list is the command and arguments to be executed via the command line. This allows white space to be enclosed in an argument by defining a command in a list within a list:
    Action([['cc', '-c', '-DWHITE SPACE', '-o', '$TARGET', '$SOURCES']])

Function
    If the first argument is a Python function, a function Action is returned. The Python function must take three keyword arguments, target (a Node object representing the target file), source (a Node object representing the source file) and env (the construction environment used for building the target file). The target and source arguments may be lists of Node objects if there is more than one target file or source file. The actual target and source file name(s) may be retrieved from their Node objects via the built-in Python \FCstr\F[] function:
    target_file_name = str(target)
    source_file_names = [str(x) for x in source]
    The function should return \FC0\F[] or None to indicate a successful build of the target file(s). The function may raise an exception or return a non-zero exit status to indicate an unsuccessful build.
    \FC
    def build_it(target = None, source = None, env = None):
        # build the target from the source
        return 0
    a = Action(build_it)
    \F[].fi
    If the action argument is not one of the above,
    None is returned.

The second argument is optional and is used to define the output
which is printed when the Action is actually performed.
In the absence of this parameter,
or if it's an empty string,
a default output depending on the type of the action is used.
For example, a command-line action will print the executed command.
The argument must be either a Python function or a string.

In the first case,
it's a function that returns a string to be printed
to describe the action being executed.
The function may also be specified by the
strfunction=
keyword argument.
Like a function to build a file,
this function must take three keyword arguments:
target
(a Node object representing the target file),
source
(a Node object representing the source file)
and
env
(a construction environment).
The
target
and
source
arguments may be lists of Node objects if there is
more than one target file or source file.

In the second case, you provide the string itself.
The string may also be specified by the
cmdstr=
keyword argument.
The string typically contains variables, notably
$TARGET(S) and $SOURCE(S), or consists of just a single
variable, which is optionally defined somewhere else.
SCons itself heavily uses the latter variant.

Examples:

\FC
def build_it(target, source, env):
    # build the target from the source
    return 0
def string_it(target, source, env):
    return "building '%s' from '%s'" % (target[0], source[0])
# Use a positional argument.
f = Action(build_it, string_it)
s = Action(build_it, "building '$TARGET' from '$SOURCE'")
# Alternatively, use a keyword argument.
f = Action(build_it, strfunction=string_it)
s = Action(build_it, cmdstr="building '$TARGET' from '$SOURCE'")
# You can provide a configurable variable.
l = Action(build_it, '$STRINGIT')
\F[].fi

The third and succeeding arguments, if present,
may either be a construction variable or a list of construction variables
whose values will be included in the signature of the Action
when deciding whether a target should be rebuilt because the action changed.
The variables may also be specified by a
varlist=
keyword parameter;
if both are present, they are combined.
This is necessary whenever you want a target to be rebuilt
when a specific construction variable changes.
This is not often needed for a string action,
as the expanded variables will normally be part of the command line,
but may be needed if a Python function action uses
the value of a construction variable when generating the command line.

\FC
def build_it(target, source, env):
    # build the target from the 'XXX' construction variable
    open(target[0], 'w').write(env['XXX'])
    return 0
# Use positional arguments.
a = Action(build_it, '$STRINGIT', ['XXX'])
# Alternatively, use a keyword argument.
a = Action(build_it, varlist=['XXX'])
\F[].fi

The
\FCAction\F[]
global function
can be passed the following
optional keyword arguments
to modify the Action object's behavior:

chdir
specifies that
scons will execute the action
after changing to the specified directory.
If the
chdir
argument is
a string or a directory Node,
scons will change to the specified directory.
If the
chdir
argument
is not a string or Node
and is non-zero,
then scons will change to the
target file's directory.

Note that scons will
not
automatically modify
its expansion of
construction variables like
$TARGET
and
$SOURCE
when using the chdir
keyword argument--that is,
the expanded file names
will still be relative to
the top-level SConstruct directory,
and consequently incorrect
relative to the chdir directory.
Builders created using chdir keyword argument,
will need to use construction variable
expansions like
${TARGET.file}
and
${SOURCE.file}
to use just the filename portion of the
targets and source.

a = Action("build < ${SOURCE.file} > ${TARGET.file}",
           chdir=1)

exitstatfunc specifies a function that is passed the exit status (or return value) from the specified action and can return an arbitrary or modified value. This can be used, for example, to specify that an Action object's return value should be ignored under special conditions and SCons should, therefore, consider that the action always suceeds:

\FC
def always_succeed(s):
    # Always return 0, which indicates success.
    return 0
a = Action("build < ${SOURCE.file} > ${TARGET.file}",
           exitstatfunc=always_succeed)
\F[].fi

batch_key
specifies that the Action can create multiple target files
by processing multiple independent source files simultaneously.
(The canonical example is "batch compilation"
of multiple object files
by passing multiple source files
to a single invocation of a compiler
such as Microsoft's Visual C / C++ compiler.)
If the
batch_key
argument evaluates True and is not a callable object,
the configured Action object will cause
scons
to collect all targets built with the Action object
and configured with the same construction environment
into single invocations of the Action object's
command line or function.
Command lines will typically want to use the
CHANGED_SOURCES
construction variable
(and possibly
CHANGED_TARGETS
as well)
to only pass to the command line those sources that
have actually changed since their targets were built.

Example:

a = Action('build $CHANGED_SOURCES', batch_key=True)

The batch_key argument may also be a callable function that returns a key that will be used to identify different "batches" of target files to be collected for batch building. A batch_key function must accept the following arguments:

action
    The action object.

env The construction environment configured for the target.

target
    The list of targets for a particular configured action.

source
    The list of source for a particular configured action. The returned key should typically be a tuple of values derived from the arguments, using any appropriate logic to decide how multiple invocations should be batched. For example, a batch_key function may decide to return the value of a specific construction variable from the env argument which will cause scons to batch-build targets with matching values of that variable, or perhaps return the id() of the entire construction environment, in which case scons will batch-build all targets configured with the same construction environment. Returning None indicates that the particular target should not be part of any batched build, but instead will be built by a separate invocation of action's command or function. Example:
    \FC
    def batch_key(action, env, target, source):
        tdir = target[0].dir
        if tdir.name == 'special':
            # Don't batch-build any target
            # in the special/ subdirectory.
            return None
        return (id(action), id(env), tdir)
    a = Action('build $CHANGED_SOURCES', batch_key=batch_key)
    \F[].fi

  MISCELLANEOUS ACTION FUNCTIONS
scons supplies a number of functions that arrange for various common file and directory manipulations to be performed. These are similar in concept to "tasks" in the Ant build tool, although the implementation is slightly different. These functions do not actually perform the specified action at the time the function is called, but instead return an Action object that can be executed at the appropriate time. (In Object-Oriented terminology, these are actually Action Factory functions that return Action objects.)

In practice, there are two natural ways that these Action Functions are intended to be used.

First, if you need to perform the action at the time the SConscript file is being read, you can use the Execute global function to do so:

Execute(Touch('file'))

Second, you can use these functions to supply Actions in a list for use by the Command method. This can allow you to perform more complicated sequences of file manipulation without relying on platform-specific external commands:

env = Environment(TMPBUILD = '/tmp/builddir')
env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
            [Mkdir('$TMPBUILD'),
             Copy('$TMPBUILD', '${SOURCE.dir}'),
             "cd $TMPBUILD && make",
             Delete('$TMPBUILD')])

Chmod(dest, mode)
    Returns an Action object that changes the permissions on the specified dest file or directory to the specified mode which can be octal or string, similar to the bash command. Examples:
    Execute(Chmod('file', 0o755))
    env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
                [Copy('$TARGET', '$SOURCE'),
                 Chmod('$TARGET', 0o755)])
    Execute(Chmod('file', "ugo+w"))
    env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
                [Copy('$TARGET', '$SOURCE'),
                 Chmod('$TARGET', "ugo+w")])

Copy(dest, src)
    Returns an Action object that will copy the src source file or directory to the dest destination file or directory. Examples:
    Execute(Copy('foo.output', 'foo.input'))
    env.Command('bar.out', 'bar.in',
                Copy('$TARGET', '$SOURCE'))

Delete(entry, [must_exist])
    Returns an Action that deletes the specified entry, which may be a file or a directory tree. If a directory is specified, the entire directory tree will be removed. If the must_exist flag is set, then a Python error will be thrown if the specified entry does not exist; the default is must_exist=0, that is, the Action will silently do nothing if the entry does not exist. Examples:
    Execute(Delete('/tmp/buildroot'))
    env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
                [Delete('${TARGET.dir}'),
                 MyBuildAction])
    Execute(Delete('file_that_must_exist', must_exist=1))

Mkdir(dir)
    Returns an Action that creates the specified directory dir . Examples:
    Execute(Mkdir('/tmp/outputdir'))
    env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
                [Mkdir('/tmp/builddir'),
                 Copy('/tmp/builddir/foo.in', '$SOURCE'),
                 "cd /tmp/builddir && make",
                 Copy('$TARGET', '/tmp/builddir/foo.out')])

Move(dest, src)
    Returns an Action that moves the specified src file or directory to the specified dest file or directory. Examples:
    Execute(Move('file.destination', 'file.source'))
    env.Command('output_file', 'input_file',
                [MyBuildAction,
                 Move('$TARGET', 'file_created_by_MyBuildAction')])

Touch(file)
    Returns an Action that updates the modification time on the specified file. Examples:
    Execute(Touch('file_to_be_touched'))
    env.Command('marker', 'input_file',
                [MyBuildAction,
                 Touch('$TARGET')])

  VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION
Before executing a command, scons performs construction variable interpolation on the string that makes up the command line of the builder. Variables are introduced in such strings by a \FC$\F[] prefix. Besides regular construction variables, scons provides the following special variables for each command execution:

CHANGED_SOURCES
    The file names of all sources of the build command that have changed since the target was last built.

CHANGED_TARGETS
    The file names of all targets that would be built from sources that have changed since the target was last built.

SOURCE
    The file name of the source of the build command, or the file name of the first source if multiple sources are being built.

SOURCES
    The file names of the sources of the build command.

TARGET
    The file name of the target being built, or the file name of the first target if multiple targets are being built.

TARGETS
    The file names of all targets being built.

UNCHANGED_SOURCES
    The file names of all sources of the build command that have not changed since the target was last built.

UNCHANGED_TARGETS
    The file names of all targets that would be built from sources that have not changed since the target was last built.

Note that the above variables are reserved and may not be set in a construction environment.

For example, given the construction variables \FCCC='cc'\F[], \FCtargets=['foo']\F[] and \FCsources=['foo.c', 'bar.c']\F[]:

action='$CC -c -o $TARGET $SOURCES'

would produce the command line:

cc -c -o foo foo.c bar.c

Variable names may be surrounded by curly braces { } to separate the name from surrounding characters which are not part of the name. Within the curly braces, a variable name may have a Python slice subscript appended to select one or more items from a list. In the previous example, the string:

${SOURCES[1]}

would produce:

bar.c

Additionally, a variable name may have the following special modifiers appended within the enclosing curly braces to modify the interpolated string:

base
    The base path of the file name, including the directory path but excluding any suffix.

dir The name of the directory in which the file exists.

file
    The file name, minus any directory portion.

filebase
    Just the basename of the file, minus any suffix and minus the directory.

suffix
    Just the file suffix.

abspath
    The absolute path name of the file.

posix
    The POSIX form of the path, with directories separated by / (forward slashes) not backslashes. This is sometimes necessary on Windows systems when a path references a file on other (POSIX) systems.

srcpath
    The directory and file name to the source file linked to this file through VariantDir(). If this file isn't linked, it just returns the directory and filename unchanged.

srcdir
    The directory containing the source file linked to this file through VariantDir(). If this file isn't linked, it just returns the directory part of the filename.

rsrcpath
    The directory and file name to the source file linked to this file through VariantDir(). If the file does not exist locally but exists in a Repository, the path in the Repository is returned. If this file isn't linked, it just returns the directory and filename unchanged.

rsrcdir
    The Repository directory containing the source file linked to this file through VariantDir(). If this file isn't linked, it just returns the directory part of the filename.

For example, the specified target will expand as follows for the corresponding modifiers:

$TARGET              => sub/dir/file.x
${TARGET.base}       => sub/dir/file
${TARGET.dir}        => sub/dir
${TARGET.file}       => file.x
${TARGET.filebase}   => file
${TARGET.suffix}     => .x
${TARGET.abspath}    => /top/dir/sub/dir/file.x
SConscript('src/SConscript', variant_dir='sub/dir')
$SOURCE              => sub/dir/file.x
${SOURCE.srcpath}    => src/file.x
${SOURCE.srcdir}     => src
Repository('/usr/repository')
$SOURCE              => sub/dir/file.x
${SOURCE.rsrcpath}   => /usr/repository/src/file.x
${SOURCE.rsrcdir}    => /usr/repository/src

Note that curly braces braces may also be used to enclose arbitrary Python code to be evaluated. (In fact, this is how the above modifiers are substituted, they are simply attributes of the Python objects that represent TARGET, SOURCES, etc.) See the section "Python Code Substitution" below, for more thorough examples of how this can be used.

Lastly, a variable name may be a callable Python function associated with a construction variable in the environment. The function should accept four arguments:

target
    a list of target nodes

source
    a list of source nodes

env the construction environment

for_signature
    a Boolean value that specifies whether the function is being called for generating a build signature.

SCons will insert whatever the called function returns into the expanded string:

\FC
def foo(target, source, env, for_signature):
    return "bar"
# Will expand $BAR to "bar baz"
env=Environment(FOO=foo, BAR="$FOO baz")
\F[].fi

You can use this feature to pass arguments to a
Python function by creating a callable class
that stores one or more arguments in an object,
and then uses them when the
\FC__call__()\F[]
method is called.
Note that in this case,
the entire variable expansion must
be enclosed by curly braces
so that the arguments will
be associated with the
instantiation of the class:

class foo(object):
    def __init__(self, arg):
        self.arg = arg
    def __call__(self, target, source, env, for_signature):
        return self.arg + " bar"
# Will expand $BAR to "my argument bar baz"
env=Environment(FOO=foo, BAR="${FOO('my argument')} baz")

The special pseudo-variables $( and $) may be used to surround parts of a command line that may change without causing a rebuild--that is, which are not included in the signature of target files built with this command. All text between $( and $) will be removed from the command line before it is added to file signatures, and the $( and $) will be removed before the command is executed. For example, the command line:

echo Last build occurred $( $TODAY $). > $TARGET

would execute the command:

echo Last build occurred $TODAY. > $TARGET

but the command signature added to any target files would be:

echo Last build occurred  . > $TARGET

  PYTHON CODE SUBSTITUTION
Any Python code within curly braces { } and introduced by the variable prefix $ gets evaluated by the Python \FCeval\F[] statement, with the Python globals set to the current environment's set of construction variables. So in the following case:

env['COND'] = 0
env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
    '''echo ${COND==1 and 'FOO' or 'BAR'} > $TARGET''')

the command executed will be either

echo FOO > foo.out

or

echo BAR > foo.out

according to the current value of \FCenv['COND']\F[] when the command is executed. The evaluation takes place when the target is being built, not when the SConscript is being read. So if \FCenv['COND']\F[] is changed later in the SConscript, the final value will be used.

Here's a more interesting example. Note that all of COND, FOO, and BAR are construction variables, and their values are substituted into the final command. FOO is a list, so its elements are interpolated separated by spaces.

env=Environment()
env['COND'] = 0
env['FOO'] = ['foo1', 'foo2']
env['BAR'] = 'barbar'
env.Command('foo.out', 'foo.in',
    'echo ${COND==1 and FOO or BAR} > $TARGET')
# Will execute this:
#  echo foo1 foo2 > foo.out

SCons uses the following rules when converting construction variables into command lines:

String
    When the value is a string it is interpreted as a space delimited list of command line arguments.

List
    When the value is a list it is interpreted as a list of command line arguments. Each element of the list is converted to a string.

Other
    Anything that is not a list or string is converted to a string and interpreted as a single command line argument.

Newline
    Newline characters (\n) delimit lines. The newline parsing is done after all other parsing, so it is not possible for arguments (e.g. file names) to contain embedded newline characters. This limitation will likely go away in a future version of SCons.

  SCANNER OBJECTS
You can use the Scanner function to define objects to scan new file types for implicit dependencies. The Scanner function accepts the following arguments:

function
    This can be either: 1) a Python function that will process the Node (file) and return a list of File Nodes representing the implicit dependencies (file names) found in the contents; or: 2) a dictionary that maps keys (typically the file suffix, but see below for more discussion) to other Scanners that should be called. If the argument is actually a Python function, the function must take three or four arguments: def scanner_function(node, env, path): def scanner_function(node, env, path, arg=None): The node argument is the internal SCons node representing the file. Use str(node) to fetch the name of the file, and node.get_contents() to fetch contents of the file. Note that the file is not guaranteed to exist before the scanner is called, so the scanner function should check that if there's any chance that the scanned file might not exist (for example, if it's built from other files). The env argument is the construction environment for the scan. Fetch values from it using the env.Dictionary() method or using the key lookup operator directly on the construction environment. The path argument is a tuple (or list) of directories that can be searched for files. This will usually be the tuple returned by the path_function argument (see below). The arg argument is the argument supplied when the scanner was created, if any.

name
    The name of the Scanner. This is mainly used to identify the Scanner internally.

argument
    An optional argument that, if specified, will be passed to the scanner function (described above) and the path function (specified below).

skeys
    An optional list that can be used to determine which scanner should be used for a given Node. In the usual case of scanning for file names, this argument will be a list of suffixes for the different file types that this Scanner knows how to scan. If the argument is a string, then it will be expanded into a list by the current environment.

path_function
    A Python function that takes four or five arguments: a construction environment, a Node for the directory containing the SConscript file in which the first target was defined, a list of target nodes, a list of source nodes, and an optional argument supplied when the scanner was created. The path_function returns a tuple of directories that can be searched for files to be returned by this Scanner object. (Note that the FindPathDirs() function can be used to return a ready-made path_function for a given construction variable name, instead of having to write your own function from scratch.)

node_class
    The class of Node that should be returned by this Scanner object. Any strings or other objects returned by the scanner function that are not of this class will be run through the node_factory function.

node_factory
    A Python function that will take a string or other object and turn it into the appropriate class of Node to be returned by this Scanner object.

scan_check
    An optional Python function that takes two arguments, a Node (file) and a construction environment, and returns whether the Node should, in fact, be scanned for dependencies. This check can be used to eliminate unnecessary calls to the scanner function when, for example, the underlying file represented by a Node does not yet exist.

recursive
    An optional flag that specifies whether this scanner should be re-invoked on the dependency files returned by the scanner. When this flag is not set, the Node subsystem will only invoke the scanner on the file being scanned, and not (for example) also on the files specified by the #include lines in the file being scanned. recursive may be a callable function, in which case it will be called with a list of Nodes found and should return a list of Nodes that should be scanned recursively; this can be used to select a specific subset of Nodes for additional scanning.

Note that scons has a global SourceFileScanner object that is used by the Object(), SharedObject(), and StaticObject() builders to decide which scanner should be used for different file extensions. You can using the SourceFileScanner.add_scanner() method to add your own Scanner object to the scons infrastructure that builds target programs or libraries from a list of source files of different types:

\FC
def xyz_scan(node, env, path):
    contents = node.get_text_contents()
    # Scan the contents and return the included files.
XYZScanner = Scanner(xyz_scan)
SourceFileScanner.add_scanner('.xyz', XYZScanner)
env.Program('my_prog', ['file1.c', 'file2.f', 'file3.xyz'])
\F[].fi

SYSTEM-SPECIFIC BEHAVIOR
SCons and its configuration files are very portable, due largely to its implementation in Python. There are, however, a few portability issues waiting to trap the unwary.

  .C FILE SUFFIX
SCons handles the upper-case \FC.C\F[] file suffix differently, depending on the capabilities of the underlying system. On a case-sensitive system such as Linux or UNIX, SCons treats a file with a \FC.C\F[] suffix as a C++ source file. On a case-insensitive system such as Windows, SCons treats a file with a \FC.C\F[] suffix as a C source file.

  .F FILE SUFFIX
SCons handles the upper-case \FC.F\F[] file suffix differently, depending on the capabilities of the underlying system. On a case-sensitive system such as Linux or UNIX, SCons treats a file with a \FC.F\F[] suffix as a Fortran source file that is to be first run through the standard C preprocessor. On a case-insensitive system such as Windows, SCons treats a file with a \FC.F\F[] suffix as a Fortran source file that should not be run through the C preprocessor.

  WINDOWS: CYGWIN TOOLS AND CYGWIN PYTHON VS. WINDOWS PYTHONS
Cygwin supplies a set of tools and utilities that let users work on a Windows system using a more POSIX-like environment. The Cygwin tools, including Cygwin Python, do this, in part, by sharing an ability to interpret UNIX-like path names. For example, the Cygwin tools will internally translate a Cygwin path name like \FC/cygdrive/c/mydir\F[] to an equivalent Windows pathname of \FCC:/mydir\F[] (equivalent to \FCC:\mydir\F[]).

Versions of Python that are built for native Windows execution, such as the python.org and ActiveState versions, do not have the Cygwin path name semantics. This means that using a native Windows version of Python to build compiled programs using Cygwin tools (such as gcc, bison, and flex) may yield unpredictable results. "Mixing and matching" in this way can be made to work, but it requires careful attention to the use of path names in your SConscript files.

In practice, users can sidestep the issue by adopting the following rules: When using gcc, use the Cygwin-supplied Python interpreter to run SCons; when using Microsoft Visual C/C++ (or some other Windows compiler) use the python.org or ActiveState version of Python to run SCons.

  WINDOWS: SCONS.BAT FILE
On Windows systems, SCons is executed via a wrapper scons.bat file. This has (at least) two ramifications:

First, Windows command-line users that want to use variable assignment on the command line may have to put double quotes around the assignments:

scons "FOO=BAR" "BAZ=BLEH"

Second, the Cygwin shell does not recognize this file as being the same as an scons command issued at the command-line prompt. You can work around this either by executing scons.bat from the Cygwin command line, or by creating a wrapper shell script named scons .

  MINGW
The MinGW bin directory must be in your PATH environment variable or the PATH variable under the ENV construction variable for SCons to detect and use the MinGW tools. When running under the native Windows Python interpreter, SCons will prefer the MinGW tools over the Cygwin tools, if they are both installed, regardless of the order of the bin directories in the PATH variable. If you have both MSVC and MinGW installed and you want to use MinGW instead of MSVC, then you must explicitly tell SCons to use MinGW by passing

tools=['mingw']

to the Environment() function, because SCons will prefer the MSVC tools over the MinGW tools.

EXAMPLES
To help you get started using SCons, this section contains a brief overview of some common tasks.

  BASIC COMPILATION FROM A SINGLE SOURCE FILE
env = Environment()
env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')

Note: Build the file by specifying the target as an argument ("scons foo" or "scons foo.exe"). or by specifying a dot ("scons .").

  BASIC COMPILATION FROM MULTIPLE SOURCE FILES
env = Environment()
env.Program(target = 'foo', source = Split('f1.c f2.c f3.c'))

  SETTING A COMPILATION FLAG
env = Environment(CCFLAGS = '-g')
env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')

  SEARCH THE LOCAL DIRECTORY FOR .H FILES
Note: You do not need to set CCFLAGS to specify -I options by hand. SCons will construct the right -I options from CPPPATH.

env = Environment(CPPPATH = ['.'])
env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')

  SEARCH MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES FOR .H FILES
env = Environment(CPPPATH = ['include1', 'include2'])
env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')

  BUILDING A STATIC LIBRARY
env = Environment()
env.StaticLibrary(target = 'foo', source = Split('l1.c l2.c'))
env.StaticLibrary(target = 'bar', source = ['l3.c', 'l4.c'])

  BUILDING A SHARED LIBRARY
env = Environment()
env.SharedLibrary(target = 'foo', source = ['l5.c', 'l6.c'])
env.SharedLibrary(target = 'bar', source = Split('l7.c l8.c'))

  LINKING A LOCAL LIBRARY INTO A PROGRAM
env = Environment(LIBS = 'mylib', LIBPATH = ['.'])
env.Library(target = 'mylib', source = Split('l1.c l2.c'))
env.Program(target = 'prog', source = ['p1.c', 'p2.c'])

  DEFINING YOUR OWN BUILDER OBJECT
Notice that when you invoke the Builder, you can leave off the target file suffix, and SCons will add it automatically.

bld = Builder(action = 'pdftex < $SOURCES > $TARGET'
              suffix = '.pdf',
              src_suffix = '.tex')
env = Environment(BUILDERS = {'PDFBuilder' : bld})
env.PDFBuilder(target = 'foo.pdf', source = 'foo.tex')
# The following creates "bar.pdf" from "bar.tex"
env.PDFBuilder(target = 'bar', source = 'bar')

Note also that the above initialization overwrites the default Builder objects, so the Environment created above can not be used call Builders like env.Program(), env.Object(), env.StaticLibrary(), etc.

  ADDING YOUR OWN BUILDER OBJECT TO AN ENVIRONMENT
bld = Builder(action = 'pdftex < $SOURCES > $TARGET'
              suffix = '.pdf',
              src_suffix = '.tex')
env = Environment()
env.Append(BUILDERS = {'PDFBuilder' : bld})
env.PDFBuilder(target = 'foo.pdf', source = 'foo.tex')
env.Program(target = 'bar', source = 'bar.c')

You also can use other Pythonic techniques to add to the BUILDERS construction variable, such as:

env = Environment()
env['BUILDERS]['PDFBuilder'] = bld

  DEFINING YOUR OWN SCANNER OBJECT
The following example shows adding an extremely simple scanner (the kfile_scan() function) that doesn't use a search path at all and simply returns the file names present on any include lines in the scanned file. This would implicitly assume that all included files live in the top-level directory:

import re
include_re = re.compile(r'^include\s+(\S+)$', re.M)
def kfile_scan(node, env, path, arg):
    contents = node.get_text_contents()
    includes = include_re.findall(contents)
    return env.File(includes)
kscan = Scanner(name = 'kfile',
                function = kfile_scan,
                argument = None,
                skeys = ['.k'])
scanners = DefaultEnvironment()['SCANNERS']
scanners.append(kscan)
env = Environment(SCANNERS=scanners)
env.Command('foo', 'foo.k', 'kprocess < $SOURCES > $TARGET')
bar_in = File('bar.in')
env.Command('bar', bar_in, 'kprocess $SOURCES > $TARGET')
bar_in.target_scanner = kscan

It is important to note that you have to return a list of File nodes from the scan function, simple strings for the file names won't do. As in the examples we are showing here, you can use the File() function of your current Environment in order to create nodes on the fly from a sequence of file names with relative paths.

Here is a similar but more complete example that adds a scanner which searches a path of directories (specified as the MYPATH construction variable) for files that actually exist:

\FC
import re
import os
include_re = re.compile(r'^include\s+(\S+)$', re.M)
def my_scan(node, env, path, arg):
    contents = node.get_text_contents()
    includes = include_re.findall(contents)
    if includes == []:
        return []
    results = []
    for inc in includes:
        for dir in path:
            file = str(dir) + os.sep + inc
            if os.path.exists(file):
                results.append(file)
                break
    return env.File(results)
scanner = Scanner(name='myscanner',
                  function=my_scan,
                  argument=None,
                  skeys=['.x'],
                  path_function=FindPathDirs('MYPATH')
                 )
scanners = DefaultEnvironment()['SCANNERS']
scanners.append(scanner)
env = Environment(SCANNERS=scanners, MYPATH=['incs'])
env.Command('foo', 'foo.x', 'xprocess < $SOURCES > $TARGET')
\F[].fi

The
FindPathDirs()
function used in the previous example returns a function
(actually a callable Python object)
that will return a list of directories
specified in the
$MYPATH
construction variable. It lets SCons detect the file
incs/foo.inc,
even if
foo.x
contains the line
include foo.inc
only.
If you need to customize how the search path is derived,
you would provide your own
path_function
argument when creating the Scanner object,
as follows:

\FC
# MYPATH is a list of directories to search for files in
def pf(env, dir, target, source, arg):
    top_dir = Dir('#').abspath
    results = []
    if 'MYPATH' in env:
        for p in env['MYPATH']:
            results.append(top_dir + os.sep + p)
    return results
scanner = Scanner(name='myscanner',
                  function=my_scan,
                  argument=None,
                  skeys=['.x'],
                  path_function=pf
                 )
\F[].fi

  CREATING A HIERARCHICAL BUILD
Notice that the file names specified in a subdirectory's SConscript file are relative to that subdirectory.

\FC
SConstruct:
    env = Environment()
    env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')
    SConscript('sub/SConscript')
sub/SConscript:
    env = Environment()
    # Builds sub/foo from sub/foo.c
    env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')
    SConscript('dir/SConscript')
sub/dir/SConscript:
    env = Environment()
    # Builds sub/dir/foo from sub/dir/foo.c
    env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')
\F[].fi

  SHARING VARIABLES BETWEEN SCONSCRIPT FILES
You must explicitly Export() and Import() variables that you want to share between SConscript files.

\FC
SConstruct:
    env = Environment()
    env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')
    Export("env")
    SConscript('subdirectory/SConscript')
subdirectory/SConscript:
    Import("env")
    env.Program(target = 'foo', source = 'foo.c')
\F[].fi

  BUILDING MULTIPLE VARIANTS FROM THE SAME SOURCE
Use the variant_dir keyword argument to the SConscript function to establish one or more separate variant build directory trees for a given source directory:

\FC
SConstruct:
    cppdefines = ['FOO']
    Export("cppdefines")
    SConscript('src/SConscript', variant_dir='foo')
    cppdefines = ['BAR']
    Export("cppdefines")
    SConscript('src/SConscript', variant_dir='bar')
src/SConscript:
    Import("cppdefines")
    env = Environment(CPPDEFINES = cppdefines)
    env.Program(target = 'src', source = 'src.c')
\F[].fi

Note the use of the Export() method
to set the "cppdefines" variable to a different
value each time we call the SConscript function.

  HIERARCHICAL BUILD OF TWO LIBRARIES LINKED WITH A PROGRAM
\FC
SConstruct:
    env = Environment(LIBPATH=['#libA', '#libB'])
    Export('env')
    SConscript('libA/SConscript')
    SConscript('libB/SConscript')
    SConscript('Main/SConscript')
libA/SConscript:
    Import('env')
    env.Library('a', Split('a1.c a2.c a3.c'))
libB/SConscript:
    Import('env')
    env.Library('b', Split('b1.c b2.c b3.c'))
Main/SConscript:
    Import('env')
    e = env.Clone(LIBS=['a', 'b'])
    e.Program('foo', Split('m1.c m2.c m3.c'))
\F[].fi

The '#' in the LIBPATH directories specify that they're relative to the
top-level directory, so they don't turn into "Main/libA" when they're
used in Main/SConscript.

Specifying only 'a' and 'b' for the library names
allows SCons to append the appropriate library
prefix and suffix for the current platform
(for example, 'liba.a' on POSIX systems,
'a.lib' on Windows).

  CUSTOMIZING CONSTRUCTION VARIABLES FROM THE COMMAND LINE.
The following would allow the C compiler to be specified on the command line or in the file custom.py.

vars = Variables('custom.py')
vars.Add('CC', 'The C compiler.')
env = Environment(variables=vars)
Help(vars.GenerateHelpText(env))

The user could specify the C compiler on the command line:

scons "CC=my_cc"

or in the custom.py file:

CC = 'my_cc'

or get documentation on the options:

$ scons -h
CC: The C compiler.
    default: None
    actual: cc

  USING MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ PRECOMPILED HEADERS
Since windows.h includes everything and the kitchen sink, it can take quite some time to compile it over and over again for a bunch of object files, so Microsoft provides a mechanism to compile a set of headers once and then include the previously compiled headers in any object file. This technology is called precompiled headers. The general recipe is to create a file named "StdAfx.cpp" that includes a single header named "StdAfx.h", and then include every header you want to precompile in "StdAfx.h", and finally include "StdAfx.h" as the first header in all the source files you are compiling to object files. For example:

StdAfx.h:

#include <windows.h>
#include <my_big_header.h>

StdAfx.cpp:

#include <StdAfx.h>

Foo.cpp:

#include <StdAfx.h>
/* do some stuff */

Bar.cpp:

#include <StdAfx.h>
/* do some other stuff */

SConstruct:

env=Environment()
env['PCHSTOP'] = 'StdAfx.h'
env['PCH'] = env.PCH('StdAfx.cpp')[0]
env.Program('MyApp', ['Foo.cpp', 'Bar.cpp'])

For more information see the document for the PCH builder, and the PCH and PCHSTOP construction variables. To learn about the details of precompiled headers consult the MSDN documentation for /Yc, /Yu, and /Yp.

  USING MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ EXTERNAL DEBUGGING INFORMATION
Since including debugging information in programs and shared libraries can cause their size to increase significantly, Microsoft provides a mechanism for including the debugging information in an external file called a PDB file. SCons supports PDB files through the PDB construction variable.

SConstruct:

env=Environment()
env['PDB'] = 'MyApp.pdb'
env.Program('MyApp', ['Foo.cpp', 'Bar.cpp'])

For more information see the document for the PDB construction variable.

ENVIRONMENT
In general, \FCscons\F[] is not controlled by environment variables set in the shell used to invoke it, leaving it up to the SConscript file author to import those if desired. However the following variables are imported by \FCscons\F[] itself if set:

SCONS_LIB_DIR
    Specifies the directory that contains the \FCscons\F[] Python module directory (for example, \FC/home/aroach/scons-src-0.01/src/engine\F[]).

SCONSFLAGS
    A string of options that will be used by \FCscons\F[] in addition to those passed on the command line.

SCONS_CACHE_MSVC_CONFIG
    (Windows only). If set, save the shell environment variables generated when setting up the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler (and/or Build Tools) to a file to give these settings, which are expensive to generate, persistence across \FCscons\F[] invocations. Use of this option is primarily intended to aid performance in tightly controlled Continuous Integration setups. If set to a True-like value (\FC"1"\F[], \FC"true"\F[] or \FC"True"\F[]) will cache to a file named \FC.scons_msvc_cache\F[] in the user's home directory. If set to a pathname, will use that pathname for the cache. Note: use this cache with caution as it might be somewhat fragile: while each major toolset version (e.g. Visual Studio 2017 vs 2019) and architecture pair will get separate cache entries, if toolset updates cause a change to settings within a given release series, \FCscons\F[] will not detect the change and will reuse old settings. Remove the cache file in case of problems with this. \FCscons\F[] will ignore failures reading or writing the file and will silently revert to non-cached behavior in such cases. Since \FCscons\F[] 3.1.

SEE ALSO
scons User Manual, scons Design Document, scons source code.

AUTHORS
Originally: Steven Knight <\FCknight@baldmt.com\F[]> and Anthony Roach <\FCaroach@electriceyeball.com\F[]>. Since 2010: The SCons Development Team <\FCscons-dev@scons.org\F[]>.