SCons - a software construction tool
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About SCons
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This is SCons, a tool for building software (and other files).  SCons is
implemented in Python, and its "configuration files" are actually Python
scripts, allowing you to use the full power of a real scripting language
to solve build problems.  You do not, however, need to know Python to
use SCons effectively.

Documentation
-------------

Documentation for SCons is available at:

        http://www.scons.org/documentation.html

Requirements
------------

Running SCons requires Python 3.5 or higher. There should be no other
dependencies or requirements to run SCons, although the pywin32 Python
package is strongly recommended if running on Windows systems.


By default, SCons knows how to search for available programming tools on
various systems--see the SCons man page for details.  You may, of course,
override the default SCons choices made by appropriate configuration of
Environment construction variables.


Licensing
=========

SCons is distributed under the MIT license, a full copy of which is available
in the LICENSE file.


Reporting Bugs
==============

The SCons project welcomes bug reports and feature requests.

Please make sure you send email with the problem or feature request to
the SCons users mailing list:

        Join via: http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-users

Or the SCons Discord server #scons-help channel

        Server URL: https://discord.gg/bXVpWAy

Once you have discussed your issue on the users mailing list and the
community has confirmed that it is either a new bug or a duplicate of an
existing bug, then please follow the instructions the community provides
to file a new bug or to add yourself to the CC list for an existing bug

You can explore the list of existing bugs, which may include workarounds
for the problem you've run into on GitHub Issues:

        https://github.com/SCons/scons/issues


Mailing Lists
=============

An active mailing list for developers of SCons is available.  You may
send questions or comments to the list at:

        scons-dev@scons.org

You may subscribe to the developer's mailing list using form on this page:

        http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev

Subscription to the developer's mailing list is by approval.  In practice, no
one is refused list membership, but we reserve the right to limit membership
in the future and/or weed out lurkers.

There are other mailing lists available for SCons users, for notification of
SCons code changes, and for notification of updated bug reports and project
documents.  Please see our mailing lists page for details.


Donations
=========

If you find SCons helpful, please consider making a donation (of cash,
software, or hardware) to support continued work on the project.  Information
is available at:

    http://www.scons.org/donate.html

or via GitHub Sponsors button on

    https://github.com/scons/scons


For More Information
====================

Check the SCons web site at:

        http://www.scons.org/


Copyright (c) 2001 - 2020 The SCons Foundation