chenasraf
commented
10 hours ago I'm not entirely familiar with SConstruct aside from building Redot a couple of times on my machine, so I have a few questions that might also help steer the discussion here
- How easy would it be to construct builders for all desired platforms with a replacement like CMake/XMake? (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android)
- Do we need to add anything to replace SCons' built-in language support or do we not use them?
- Visual Studio project support seems to also be a part of SCons, would we need to find a solution to that?
Spartan322
Describe the project you are working on
Build system
Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project
The current build system, SCons, is not the best. For one, it's tricky to install for someone that has never used it and it does not provide pre-built binaries on Windows, not to mention that SCons is often rightfully regarded as slow.
Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation
Remove the old SCons configurations and replace them with a faster and more straightforward build system (like xmake, CMake or something else)
Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams
The SConstruct, version.py, scu_builders.py, gles3_builders.py, glsl_builders.py, .scons_env.json must be removed
If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?
This enhancement is, at least in my opinion, critical to simplify the build progress and we cannot do otherwise if we don't want to use SCons.
Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?
It cannot be an asset