With scons, how do you link to prebuilt libraries?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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)