SconsExtensions

So in my case, the name of the library I want to create is called bright.

Scons is aware of swig, all you need is the SwigFlags and the .i in your sources for it all to work nicely.

I have my individual .i files (one per C++ header) mixed in with the source, and a bright.i class that sets the module name, and includes all the other .i files.

Here's an example:

SConstruct:

#
# Works on linux and Mac,
# Mac use scons 0.96.90.D001 or later
# linux use 0.96.1 or later
#

import wx.build.config as conf

library = '_bright'
wxPrefix = '/usr/'
sourceDir = '../../src/'

# on linux, it's probably in the system's /usr/local/lib

env = Environment()

sourceFiles = [
'bright.i',
'imaging/imageColorFilter.cpp',
# ...
]

sources = [os.path.join(sourceDir, src) for src in sourceFiles]

env['CPPPATH'] = [
'../../src/',
'../../libs/crypto521',
'/usr/include/python2.4/',
'/usr/include/wx-2.6/wx/wxPython/i_files/'
]

SwigFlags = "-c++ -Wall -nodefault -python -keyword -new_repr -modern -I/usr/include/wx-2.6/wx/wxPython/i_files/"

# Adds the necessary flags for compiling and linking wxWidgets projects
env.ParseConfig('wx-config --cppflags --libs')

env.Append(CCFLAGS=['-DSWIG_TYPE_TABLE=_wxPython_table'])

brightlib = env.SharedLibrary(library, sources,
    SHLIBPREFIX="", SWIGFLAGS=SwigFlags,
    build_dir='/tmp/', duplicate=0)

# manage dependancies by target's content
# this way a change to a comment will cause
# a recompile, but not a relink
TargetSignatures('content')

import pprint
pprint.pprint( brightlib)

so all I have to do is type scons to create my wxPython extension, and then I have to go hunt for where it places the various resulting files. The _bright.so ends up in the source directory, and the bright.py file is in the directory where scons is invoked from (if I remember right.)