On 16 September 2010 17:05, David Gowers <00a...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeem...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> We should use SCons >>> >>> --- >>> James >> >> Scons has a lot of prestige, so I'm not surprised that it's the first >> suggestion, but there are other options: any other suggestions? >> >> Has anyone used Scons extensively who can confirm that it's a good idea? > > I haven't used Scons *extensively* (I use it to build all the docs for > my various software.). > I know enough about it that I'd be willing and able to create an SCons > build for OHRRPGCE. I find it quite capable (and I'll say no more, in > order to not bias happenings) > > ... > > I currently have most of an SConstruct file for OHRRPGCE made, > including an implementation of verprint that is readable :) > I'll post it later for perusal.
Hurrah! Three cheers for David! It's amazing how many hours I've wasted on makegame.bat and makeedit.bat. And I haven't mentioned it before, but on one particular Win XP machine, verprint always crashes deep inside a system call (has for about half a year). I don't understand why, but the problem goes away if I link certain files into verprint like lumpfile.bas. It turns out that any FB program on that machine that tries to OPEN a file crashes unless it's linked to those certain files. This is such a nightmare that I block it out of my mind; it's a FB (or Windows?) bug more terrifying and untackleable than I am willing to spend further time investigating. > Re: seth's mail: > IMO, since scons is extensible, built-in FreeBasic support is not necessary. _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
