With scons, how do you link to prebuilt libraries?

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I recently started using scons to build several small cross-platform projects. One of these projects needs to link against pre-built static libraries... how is this done?

In make, I'd just append "link /LIBPATH:wherever libstxxl.lib" on windows, and "stxxl.a" on unix.

One small note, it's better to say `LIBS=['foo']` rather than `LIBS=['libfoo']`. The former gives you platform independance (ie, in POSIX you will get a libfoo.a, and in Windows a foo.lib) — Imran.Fanaswala, Dec 12 '08 at 00:49

oz10 · Accepted Answer · 2008-12-12T04:33:18.217

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Just to document the answer, as I already located it myself.

Program( 'foo', ['foo.cpp'], LIBS=['foo'], LIBPATH='.' )

Adding the LIBS & LIBPATH parameters add the correct arguments to the build command line.

More information here.

edited Dec 12 '08 at 04:33

answered Oct 14 '08 at 04:34

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What if I want to link a library that's already compiled as a `.so`? – Aaron Franke Aug 06 '20 at 22:33
@AaronFranke the question was specifically for static libraries, not dynamic libs (.so on unix) – oz10 Aug 08 '20 at 03:14

With scons, how do you link to prebuilt libraries?

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