SCons is an Open Source software construction tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and …

This page contains links to general SCons documentation, and to documentation (man page and User's Guide) for the current stable release of SCons: 4.10.1. Man pages and User's Guides for other …

The scons bundles provide an alternate way to install SCons on your system to use or experiment with it. When the archive is unpacked, it provides a full collection of the SCons code itself.

15.1. Specifying a Variant Directory Tree as Part of an SConscript Call 15.2. Why SCons Duplicates Source Files in a Variant Directory Tree 15.3. Telling SCons to Not Duplicate Source Files in the …

SCons, to gain the advantages of having an isolated environment. It also gets around the problem of not having administrative privileges on a particular system to install a distribution

Nov 16, 2025 · DESCRIPTION SCons is an extensible open source build system that orchestrates the construction of software (and other tangible products such as documentation files) by determining …

The scons package is the basic one for installing SCons on your system and using it or experimenting with it. You don't need any other package if you just want to try out SCons.

This page contains links to general SCons documentation, and to documentation (man page and User's Guide) for the current stable release of SCons: 4.10.1. Man pages and User's Guides for other …

As such it is not exactly a tutorial (as usually those build a single example topic from start to finish), but if you are just starting with SCons it is recommended you step through the first 10 chapters in …

All modules or packages used by SCons must either be part of the standard library in the lowest supported Python release, or be "vendored" into the SCons distribution.