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-<!--
-
- Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 The SCons Foundation
-
- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
- a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
- "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
- without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
- distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
- permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
- the following conditions:
-
- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
- in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
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- KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
- NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
- LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
- OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
- WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
--->
-
- <para>
-
- The &AddMethod; function is used to add a method
- to an environment. It's typically used to add a "pseudo-builder,"
- a function that looks like a &Builder; but
- wraps up calls to multiple other &Builder;s
- or otherwise processes its arguments
- before calling one or more &Builder;s.
- In the following example,
- we want to install the program into the standard
- <filename>/usr/bin</filename> directory hierarchy,
- but also copy it into a local <filename>install/bin</filename>
- directory from which a package might be built:
-
- </para>
-
- <scons_example name="ex1">
- <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
- def install_in_bin_dirs(env, source):
- """Install source in both bin dirs"""
- i1 = env.Install("$BIN", source)
- i2 = env.Install("$LOCALBIN", source)
- return [i1[0], i2[0]] # Return a list, like a normal builder
- env = Environment(BIN='__ROOT__/usr/bin', LOCALBIN='#install/bin')
- env.AddMethod(install_in_bin_dirs, "InstallInBinDirs")
- env.InstallInBinDirs(Program('hello.c')) # installs hello in both bin dirs
- </file>
- <file name="hello.c">
- int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); }
- </file>
- </scons_example>
-
- <para>
- This produces the following:
- </para>
-
- <scons_output example="ex1">
- <scons_output_command>scons -Q /</scons_output_command>
- </scons_output>
-
- <para>
-
- As mentioned, a pseudo-builder also provides more flexibility
- in parsing arguments than you can get with a &Builder;.
- The next example shows a pseudo-builder with a
- named argument that modifies the filename, and a separate argument
- for the resource file (rather than having the builder figure it out
- by file extension). This example also demonstrates using the global
- &AddMethod; function to add a method to the global Environment class,
- so it will be used in all subsequently created environments.
-
- </para>
-
- <scons_example name="ex2">
- <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
- def BuildTestProg(env, testfile, resourcefile, testdir="tests"):
- """Build the test program;
- prepends "test_" to src and target,
- and puts target into testdir."""
- srcfile = "test_%s.c" % testfile
- target = "%s/test_%s" % (testdir, testfile)
- if env['PLATFORM'] == 'win32':
- resfile = env.RES(resourcefile)
- p = env.Program(target, [srcfile, resfile])
- else:
- p = env.Program(target, srcfile)
- return p
- AddMethod(Environment, BuildTestProg)
-
- env = Environment()
- env.BuildTestProg('stuff', resourcefile='res.rc')
- </file>
- <file name="test_stuff.c">
- int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); }
- </file>
- <file name="res.rc">
- res.rc
- </file>
- </scons_example>
-
- <para>
- This produces the following on Linux:
- </para>
-
- <scons_output example="ex2">
- <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
- </scons_output>
-
- <para>
- And the following on Windows:
- </para>
-
- <scons_output example="ex2" os="win32">
- <scons_output_command>scons -Q</scons_output_command>
- </scons_output>
-
- <para>
- Using &AddMethod; is better than just adding an instance method
- to a &consenv; because it gets called as a proper method,
- and because &AddMethod; provides for copying the method
- to any clones of the &consenv; instance.
- </para>