MicrosoftPlatformTool

Recently Microsoft made their C++ Compiler a free as in beer download: see

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

In conjunction with the Platform SDK and Direct X SDK (urls given to you in the README when you download the toolkit) when you download the above, it's a pretty mean development environment, but hard as hell to drive from the command line (multiple environment variables, complicated makefiles, etc.) This is obviously the sort of arena SCons would do well in, so I have coded up a mstookit scons tool: it targets only Win2000 & IE5 at the moment. I've used it successfully to build the graphics3d http://g3d-cpp.sourceforge.net library and an executable demo that comes with it.

Note that it uses link from the Platform SDK, not from the toolkit, and creates static libs by invoking link.exe with the -lib option. I also havent checked that it works when you install the toolkits / SDK's in non-default locations. Use at your own risk

"""engine.SCons.Tool.mstoolkit.py

Tool-specific initialization for Microsoft Visual C/C++ Toolkit Commandline

There normally shouldn't be any need to import this module directly.
It will usually be imported through the generic SCons.Tool.Tool()
selection method.

"""

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import os.path
import re
import types

import SCons.Action
import SCons.Builder
import SCons.Errors
import SCons.Platform.win32
import SCons.Tool
import SCons.Util
import SCons.Warnings

CSuffixes = [".c", ".C"]
CXXSuffixes = [".cc", ".cpp", ".cxx", ".c++", ".C++"]

def get_msvctoolkit_paths():
    """Return a 4-tuple of (INCLUDE, LIB, PATH, TOOLKIT) as the values of those
    three environment variables that should be set in order to execute
    the MSVC .NET tools properly, if the information wasn't available
    from the registry."""

    MSToolkitDir = None
    paths = {}
    exe_path = ""
    lib_path = ""
    include_path = ""

    # First, we get the shell folder for this user:
    if not SCons.Util.can_read_reg:
        raise SCons.Errors.InternalError("No Windows registry module was found")

    # look for toolkit
    if "VCToolkitInstallDir" in os.environ:
        MSToolkitDir = os.path.normpath(os.environ["VCToolkitInstallDir"])
    else:
        # last resort -- default install location
        MSToolkitDir = r"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003"

    # look for platform sdk
    if "MSSdk" in os.environ:
        PlatformSDKDir = os.path.normpath(os.environ["MSSdk"])
    else:
        try:
            PlatformSDKDir = SCons.Util.RegGetValue(
                SCons.Util.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
                r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MicrosoftSDK\Directories\Install Dir",
            )[0]
            PlatformSDKDir = str(PlatformSDKDir)
        except SCons.Util.RegError:
            raise SCons.Errors.InternalError(
                "The Platform SDK directory was not found in the registry or in the `MSSdk` environment variable."
            )

    # look for DX Sdk (expecting DX9)
    # dxsdk docs have a directory key, look for it, extract path
    dxsdkdocs = ""
    DXsdkDir = ""
    try:
        dxsdkdocs = SCons.Util.RegGetValue(
            SCons.Util.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
            r"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\DirectX SDK\DX9SDK Doc Path",
        )
    except SCons.Util.RegError:
        raise SCons.Errors.InternalError(
            "The DXSDK directory was not found in the registry."
        )

    DXsdkDir = os.path.split(dxsdkdocs[0])[0]
    DXsdkDir = os.path.split(DXsdkDir)[0]

    include_path = r"%s\include;%s\include;%s\include" % (
        MSToolkitDir,
        PlatformSDKDir,
        DXsdkDir,
    )
    lib_path = r"%s\lib;%s\lib;%s\lib" % (MSToolkitDir, PlatformSDKDir, DXsdkDir)
    exe_path = r"%s\bin;%s\bin\win95;%s\bin" % (
        MSToolkitDir,
        PlatformSDKDir,
        PlatformSDKDir,
    )
    return (include_path, lib_path, exe_path, PlatformSDKDir)

def validate_vars(env):
    """Validate the PDB, PCH, and PCHSTOP construction variables."""
    if env.get("PCH"):
        if "PCHSTOP" not in env:
            raise SCons.Errors.UserError(
                "The PCHSTOP construction must be defined if PCH is defined."
            )
        if not SCons.Util.is_String(env["PCHSTOP"]):
            raise SCons.Errors.UserError(
                "The PCHSTOP construction variable must be a string: %r"
                % env["PCHSTOP"]
            )

def pch_emitter(target, source, env):
    """Sets up the PDB dependencies for a pch file, and adds the object
    file target."""

    validate_vars(env)

    pch = None
    obj = None

    for t in target:
        if SCons.Util.splitext(str(t))[1] == ".pch":
            pch = t
        if SCons.Util.splitext(str(t))[1] == ".obj":
            obj = t

    if not obj:
        obj = SCons.Util.splitext(str(pch))[0] + ".obj"

    target = [pch, obj]  # pch must be first, and obj second for the PCHCOM to work

    if env.get("PDB"):
        env.SideEffect(env["PDB"], target)
        env.Precious(env["PDB"])

    return (target, source)

def object_emitter(target, source, env, parent_emitter):
    """Sets up the PDB and PCH dependencies for an object file."""

    validate_vars(env)

    parent_emitter(target, source, env)

    if env.get("PDB"):
        env.SideEffect(env["PDB"], target)
        env.Precious(env["PDB"])

    if env.get("PCH"):
        env.Depends(target, env["PCH"])

    return (target, source)


def static_object_emitter(target, source, env):
    return object_emitter(target, source, env, SCons.Defaults.StaticObjectEmitter)


def shared_object_emitter(target, source, env):
    return object_emitter(target, source, env, SCons.Defaults.SharedObjectEmitter)


pch_builder = SCons.Builder.Builder(
    action="$PCHCOM", suffix=".pch", emitter=pch_emitter
)
res_builder = SCons.Builder.Builder(action="$RCCOM", suffix=".res")


def pdbGenerator(env, target, source, for_signature):
    if target and env.get("PDB"):
        return [
            "/PDB:%s" % target[0].File(env["PDB"]).get_string(for_signature),
            "/DEBUG",
        ]


def win32ShlinkTargets(target, source, env, for_signature):
    listCmd = []
    dll = env.FindIxes(target, "SHLIBPREFIX", "SHLIBSUFFIX")
    if dll:
        listCmd.append("/out:%s" % dll.get_string(for_signature))

    implib = env.FindIxes(target, "LIBPREFIX", "LIBSUFFIX")
    if implib:
        listCmd.append("/implib:%s" % implib.get_string(for_signature))

    return listCmd


def win32ShlinkSources(target, source, env, for_signature):
    listCmd = []

    deffile = env.FindIxes(source, "WIN32DEFPREFIX", "WIN32DEFSUFFIX")
    for src in source:
        if src == deffile:
            # Treat this source as a .def file.
            listCmd.append("/def:%s" % src.get_string(for_signature))
        else:
            # Just treat it as a generic source file.
            listCmd.append(src)
    return listCmd

def win32LibEmitter(target, source, env):
    # SCons.Tool.msvc.validate_vars(env)

    dll = env.FindIxes(target, "SHLIBPREFIX", "SHLIBSUFFIX")
    no_import_lib = env.get("no_import_lib", 0)

    if not dll:
        raise SCons.Errors.UserError(
            "A shared library should have exactly one target with the suffix: %s"
            % env.subst("$SHLIBSUFFIX")
        )

    if env.get("WIN32_INSERT_DEF", 0) and not env.FindIxes(
        source, "WIN32DEFPREFIX", "WIN32DEFSUFFIX"
    ):

        # append a def file to the list of sources
        source.append(
            env.ReplaceIxes(
                dll, "SHLIBPREFIX", "SHLIBSUFFIX", "WIN32DEFPREFIX", "WIN32DEFSUFFIX"
            )
        )

    if env.get("PDB"):
        env.SideEffect(env["PDB"], target)
        env.Precious(env["PDB"])

    if not no_import_lib and not env.FindIxes(target, "LIBPREFIX", "LIBSUFFIX"):
        # Append an import library to the list of targets.
        target.append(
            env.ReplaceIxes(dll, "SHLIBPREFIX", "SHLIBSUFFIX", "LIBPREFIX", "LIBSUFFIX")
        )
        # and .exp file is created if there are exports from a DLL
        target.append(
            env.ReplaceIxes(
                dll, "SHLIBPREFIX", "SHLIBSUFFIX", "WIN32EXPPREFIX", "WIN32EXPSUFFIX"
            )
        )

    return (target, source)

def prog_emitter(target, source, env):
    # SCons.Tool.msvc.validate_vars(env)

    if env.get("PDB"):
        env.SideEffect(env["PDB"], target)
        env.Precious(env["PDB"])

    return (target, source)

def RegServerFunc(target, source, env):
    if env.get("register"):
        ret = regServerAction([target[0]], [source[0]], env)
        if ret:
            raise SCons.Errors.UserError("Unable to register %s" % target[0])
        else:
            print("Registered %s successfully" % target[0])
        return ret
    return 0

regServerAction = SCons.Action.Action("$REGSVRCOM")
regServerCheck = SCons.Action.Action(RegServerFunc, None)
shlibLinkAction = SCons.Action.Action(
    '${TEMPFILE("$SHLINK $SHLINKFLAGS $_SHLINK_TARGETS $( $_LIBDIRFLAGS $) $_LIBFLAGS $_PDB $_SHLINK_SOURCES")}'
)
compositeLinkAction = shlibLinkAction + regServerCheck

def generate(env):
    """Add Builders and construction variables for MSVC++ to an Environment."""
    static_obj, shared_obj = SCons.Tool.createObjBuilders(env)

    for suffix in CSuffixes:
        static_obj.add_action(suffix, SCons.Defaults.CAction)
        shared_obj.add_action(suffix, SCons.Defaults.ShCAction)

    for suffix in CXXSuffixes:
        static_obj.add_action(suffix, SCons.Defaults.CXXAction)
        shared_obj.add_action(suffix, SCons.Defaults.ShCXXAction)

    SCons.Tool.createStaticLibBuilder(env)
    SCons.Tool.createSharedLibBuilder(env)
    SCons.Tool.createProgBuilder(env)

    env["CCPDBFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar(['${(PDB and "/Zi /Fd%s"%File(PDB)) or ""}'])
    env["CCPCHFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar(
        ['${(PCH and "/Yu%s /Fp%s"%(PCHSTOP or "",File(PCH))) or ""}']
    )
    env[
        "CCCOMFLAGS"
    ] = "$CPPFLAGS $_CPPDEFFLAGS $_CPPINCFLAGS /c $SOURCES /Fo$TARGET $CCPCHFLAGS $CCPDBFLAGS"
    env["CC"] = "cl"
    env["CCFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("/nologo")
    env["CCCOM"] = "$CC $CCFLAGS $CCCOMFLAGS"
    env["SHCC"] = "$CC"
    env["SHCCFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("$CCFLAGS")
    env["SHCCCOM"] = "$SHCC $SHCCFLAGS $CCCOMFLAGS"
    env["CXX"] = "$CC"
    env["CXXFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("$CCFLAGS $( /TP $)")
    env["CXXCOM"] = "$CXX $CXXFLAGS $CCCOMFLAGS"
    env["SHCXX"] = "$CXX"
    env["SHCXXFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("$CXXFLAGS")
    env["SHCXXCOM"] = "$SHCXX $SHCXXFLAGS $CCCOMFLAGS"
    env["CPPDEFPREFIX"] = "/D"
    env["CPPDEFSUFFIX"] = ""
    env["INCPREFIX"] = "/I"
    env["INCSUFFIX"] = ""
    env["OBJEMITTER"] = static_object_emitter
    env["SHOBJEMITTER"] = shared_object_emitter
    env["STATIC_AND_SHARED_OBJECTS_ARE_THE_SAME"] = 1

    env["RC"] = "rc"
    env["RCFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("")
    env["RCCOM"] = "$RC $_CPPDEFFLAGS $_CPPINCFLAGS $RCFLAGS /fo$TARGET $SOURCES"
    CScan = env.get_scanner(".c")
    if CScan:
        CScan.add_skey(".rc")
    env["BUILDERS"]["RES"] = res_builder

    include_path, lib_path, exe_path, sdk_path = get_msvctoolkit_paths()
    env.PrependENVPath("INCLUDE", include_path)
    env.PrependENVPath("LIB", lib_path)
    env.PrependENVPath("PATH", exe_path)

    env["ENV"]["CPU"] = "i386"
    env["ENV"]["MSSDK"] = sdk_path
    env["ENV"]["BkOffice"] = sdk_path
    env["ENV"]["Basemake"] = sdk_path + "\\Include\\BKOffice.Mak"
    env["ENV"]["INETSDK"] = sdk_path
    env["ENV"]["MSSDK"] = sdk_path
    env["ENV"]["MSTOOLS"] = sdk_path
    env["ENV"]["TARGETOS"] = "WINNT"
    env["ENV"]["APPVER"] = "5.0"

    env["CFILESUFFIX"] = ".c"
    env["CXXFILESUFFIX"] = ".cc"

    env[
        "PCHCOM"
    ] = "$CXX $CXXFLAGS $CPPFLAGS $_CPPDEFFLAGS $_CPPINCFLAGS /c $SOURCES /Fo${TARGETS[1]} /Yc$PCHSTOP /Fp${TARGETS[0]} $CCPDBFLAGS"
    env["BUILDERS"]["PCH"] = pch_builder

    env["AR"] = '"' + sdk_path + '\\bin\\Win64\\lib.exe"'
    env["ARFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("/nologo")
    env["ARCOM"] = "${TEMPFILE('$AR $ARFLAGS /OUT:$TARGET $SOURCES')}"

    env["SHLINK"] = "$LINK"
    env["SHLINKFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("$LINKFLAGS /dll")
    env["_SHLINK_TARGETS"] = win32ShlinkTargets
    env["_SHLINK_SOURCES"] = win32ShlinkSources
    env["SHLINKCOM"] = compositeLinkAction
    env["SHLIBEMITTER"] = win32LibEmitter
    env["LINK"] = '"' + sdk_path + "\\bin\\Win64\\" + 'link.exe"'
    env["LINKFLAGS"] = SCons.Util.CLVar("/nologo")
    env["_PDB"] = pdbGenerator
    env[
        "LINKCOM"
    ] = '${TEMPFILE("$LINK $LINKFLAGS /OUT:$TARGET $( $_LIBDIRFLAGS $) $_LIBFLAGS $_PDB $SOURCES")}'
    env["PROGEMITTER"] = prog_emitter
    env["LIBDIRPREFIX"] = "/LIBPATH:"
    env["LIBDIRSUFFIX"] = ""
    env["LIBLINKPREFIX"] = ""
    env["LIBLINKSUFFIX"] = "$LIBSUFFIX"

    env["WIN32DEFPREFIX"] = ""
    env["WIN32DEFSUFFIX"] = ".def"
    env["WIN32_INSERT_DEF"] = 0

    env["WIN32EXPPREFIX"] = ""
    env["WIN32EXPSUFFIX"] = ".exp"

    env["REGSVRACTION"] = regServerCheck
    env["REGSVR"] = os.path.join(
        SCons.Platform.win32.get_system_root(), "System32", "regsvr32"
    )
    env["REGSVRFLAGS"] = "/s "
    env["REGSVRCOM"] = "$REGSVR $REGSVRFLAGS $TARGET"


def exists(env):
    return env.Detect("cl")

---

If you're trying to use SharedLibrary but get this error:

scons: *** 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128)

wrap the value assigned to PlatformSDKDir on line 77 with str().

I have submitted bug report #1157430 about this.

• -- AmirSzekely