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Can you please tell me how can I install scons on MacOSX?

I don't see a mac specified download from http://www.scons.org/

Thank you.

Jonik
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n179911
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An alternative to MacPorts would be to use HomeBrew, where you'd just to 

brew install scons
Joseph Wright
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Download the tarball and then refer to the first chapter of the user guide, Building and Installing SCons. In short:

# cd scons-1.2.0
# python setup.py install
Rob Kennedy
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Install MacPorts, then at the Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app), type:

sudo port install scons

This command will automatically download and install scons for you. MacPorts requires that you have the developer tools installed, so if you don't, you will need to download and install the Xcode 3 DVD.

NOTE 1: Xcode 2.5 is the last version of Xcode that will work on Mac OS X Tiger.

NOTE 2: This may seem awfully painful if you don't already have MacPorts installed. However, you really should go this route, as MacPorts makes it easy to update installed software, it automatically manages dependencies between software, and it makes it easier to install other packages in the future.

Michael Aaron Safyan
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  • MacPorts is great, and I use it regularly. However, I try my hardest to steer clear of distribution-based package management when it comes to Python modules. I try to stick with virtualenv for isolating Python instances and pip for package management. – ken Aug 06 '09 at 15:16
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If you have the Python setuptools, the following will install scons-1.2.0 from sourceforge:

easy_install scons

But bear in mind the issues people raise with setuptools.

Also, keep in mind this question and the answers about virtualenv and pip for isolating Python environments.

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ken
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There is also a GUI installer for SCons on Mac OS X that I wrote available for download here:

https://github.com/rviney/scons-mac-installer

Richard Viney
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Since version 2.3.0 SCons should work without installing:

# get the source and switch to stable 2.3.0 version
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/ -r 2.3.0

# make sure to use Python 2 for now
python scons/src/scripts/scons.py

When running 2.3.0 from source, the SCons.__version__ is not set correctly, so EnsureSConsVersion() will likely to fail if that's ok for you.

anatoly techtonik
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Installation via pipx

  1. Install pipx (if not yet done)
brew install pipx
pipx ensurepath
  1. pipx install scons
  2. Install manpages and configure manpath
cp ~/.local/pipx/venvs/scons/scons*.1 ~/.local/share/man/man1/

Insert

MANPATH=$HOME/.local/share/man/:$MANPATH;

into bashrc/zshrc.

Advantages of pipx

Install and run Python applications in isolated environments. (see xkcd's take on Python dependencies).

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pull down SCons source and put it in /Library/Python/X.X/. Make sure you have the dir structure like this: /Library/Python/X.X/SCons/init.py

remember, import searches for modules, and /Library/Python/XXX is by default in the search path.

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