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Igor Gatis
Igor Gatis

Reputation: 4898

What are the SCons alternatives?

I have projects in C++, Java and Python. Projects in C++ export SWIG interfaces so they can be used by Java and Python projects.

My question is: what building mechanism can I use to manage dependencies and build these projects?

I have used SCons and GYP. They are fairly easy to use and allow plugins (code-generators, compilers, packers). I'd like to know whether there are alternatives, in particular with native support for C++, Java and Python.

I develop in Linux platform, but I'd like to be able to build in mac and win platforms as well.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2508

Answers (5)

pyfunc
pyfunc

Reputation: 66729

One promising alternative is waf:

Others:

Not exactly but very relevant:

Upvotes: 7

Geli
Geli

Reputation: 503

I tried to do a Java / C++ / C++ To Java swig / (+ Protocol buffers) project in CMAKE and it was horrible! In such a case the problem with Cmake is, that the scripting language is extremely limited. I switched to Scons and everything got much easier.

Upvotes: 4

Daniel Voina
Daniel Voina

Reputation: 3215

In Java world ant is "lingua franca" for build systems. Ant supports a C++ task via ant-contrib - so you can compile your C++ code. With Ant's exec task you can still run swig on C++ code in order to get the wrappers. Then standard tasks as javac/jar can be used for java application build.

Upvotes: 1

khmarbaise
khmarbaise

Reputation: 97507

For Java and C++ projects you can take a look into Maven + Maven-nar-plugin but for Python i really don't know the best. May be other tools like CMake would fit better.

Upvotes: 1

greyfade
greyfade

Reputation: 25657

CMake

I use and prefer it for my projects.

There's also Rake (comes with Ruby, but can be used for anything), which I regard rather highly.

Upvotes: 9

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