What are the SCons alternatives?
Question:
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.
Answers:
One promising alternative is waf:
Others:
Not exactly but very relevant:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One promising alternative is waf:
Others:
Not exactly but very relevant:
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.
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.
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.
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.