<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>Thanks, Tom<br><br>I watched a video a while ago where VisualWorks had an object for an .ini file. <br><br>I have also seen interest to move the build system into the Smalltalk environment itself. <br><br>I saw Program{'hello.c'} and thought "SomeAppropriatelyNamedSmalltalkClass generateBuildSystem platform: #pdp11 ...."<br><br>I will re-adress this when I can get the Stack VM running and get a handle on the present build system.<br><br>Cordially,<br><br>tty<br><br><div id="1"><br><br><br><br>---- On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:32:56 -0800 <b>Tom Rushworth<tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com></b> wrote ---- <br></div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px">I've used both scons and its re-write waf. <br> <br>I consider them to be the true "next generation" build tools. As far <br>ahead of all the various "make" flavors as git and hg are ahead of cvs. <br> <br>They both have decent docs and user communities, but there is a bit of a <br>learning curve :(. <br> <br>On 13-11-28 17:47 , gettimothy wrote: <br>> While upgrading my Slackware to 14.1 so I could install Bochs and re-compiling my apps I saw that esr's gpsd requires something called scons for its build system: <br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.scons.org" target="_blank">http://www.scons.org</a> <br>> <br>> Here is an example from the docs: <br>> <br>> <br>> Here's the famous "Hello, World!" program in C: <br>> int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); } And here's how to build it using SCons. Enter the following into a file named SConstruct: <br>> Program('hello.c') This minimal configuration file gives SCons two pieces of information: what you want to build (an executable program), and the input file from which you want it built (the hello.c file). Program is a builder_method, a Python call that tells SCons that you want to build an executable program. <br>> That's it. Now run the scons command to build the program. On a POSIX-compliant system like Linux or UNIX, you'll see something like: <br>> % scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cc -o hello.o -c hello.c cc -o hello hello.o scons: done building targets. On a Windows system with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, you'll see something like: <br>> C:\&gt;scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... cl /Fohello.obj /c hello.c /nologo link /nologo /OUT:hello.exe hello.obj embedManifestExeCheck(target, source, env) scons: done building targets. <br>> Has anybody poked around this thing? <br> <br>Not I. Do you have specific questions? <br>> <br>> tty <br>> <br>Regards, <br> <br>-- <br>Tom Rushworth <br> <br></blockquote><br></div></body></html>