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How to tell scons to use MinGW instead of MSVC
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I have a simple SConstruct file with the following code
path = ['C:\\MinGW\\bin']
env = Environment(ENV = {'PATH' : path})
Program(target = 'myprogram', source = ['main.cpp'])
running 'scons' on cmd gives the following error message:
cl /Fomain.obj /c main.cpp /TP /nologo
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
scons: *** [main.obj] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.
It looks like SCons does not pick my compiler (MinGW). What am I doing wrong?
I'm on Windows 7 64bit.
After setting tools variable in environment you should use env.Program('...') instead of Program('...'). Below is my working SConstruct for mingw:
path = ['C:\\Dev\\MinGW\\x64-4.9.2-posix-seh-rt_v3-rev1\\mingw64\\bin']
temp = 'C:\\Temp'
env = Environment(ENV={'PATH': path, 'TEMP': temp},
tools=['mingw'])
env.Program('solver-tikhonov.cpp')
SCons is trying to build with the default Windows tools, namely cl
, which is the visual studio compiler. You need to tell it to use the mingw toolset, as follows:
path = ['C:\\MinGW\\bin']
env = Environment(tools=['mingw'], ENV = {'PATH' : path})
After doing this, if it still cant find the mingw compiler, you can set it as follows:
env.Replace(CC='path/to/mingw/cc/compiler',
CXX='path/to/mingw/c++/compiler')