Building:SCons

[edit] Build Targets

fife-shared - Creates a shared library (.so on Linux and .dll on Windows). This build target is not supported yet and should not be used
fife-static - Creates a static library (.a on Linux and .lib on Windows). This build target is not supported yet and should not be used
fife-python - Generates the swig wrappers and creates a python library. This is the default build target
fife-swig - Generates the swig wrappers
fife - This is an alias that build fife-shared, fife-static, fife-python and fife-swig
projects - Creates all the project files (code-blocks windows, code-blocks linux, msvc, msvc9)
ext - (LINUX ONLY) Builds guichan and libpng in the <FIFE>/ext directory.
docs - Builds the doxygen documents (requires doxygen to be installed)

NOTE: None of these targets install the demos or tools!

install-shared - Copies the shared library to the default location (c:\fife\lib on Windows, /usr/local/lib on linux and darwin)
install-static - Copies the static library to the default location (c:\fife\lib on Windows, /usr/local/lib on linux and darwin)
install-python - Copies the python library, fife.py and the FIFE extensions to the users Python site-packages directory. NOTE: installs to the version of Python that scons was called with)
install-dev - Copies the shared, static and FIFE header files to the default install locations
install-all - This is an alias that calls install-shared, install-static, install-python and install-dev

SWIG - Set this environment variable to the swig executable you wish to use (if you do not wish to use the one found in PATH)
CXXFLAGS - If this is set it will override the default CXXFLAGS specified in SConstruct.

--enable-debug - Builds the debug version of the binaries
--disable-opengl - Disable OpenGL support
--disable-zip - Disable ZIP archive support
--disable-log - Disable engine logging support
--enable-rend-camzone - Enables camera zone renderer
--enable-rend-grid - Enables camera grid renderer
--enable-profile - Build with profiling information
--prefix=DIR - installation prefix
--python-prefix=DIR - Python module installation prefix
DESTDIR=DIR - This is appended to prefix and python-prefix
CXXFLAGS=FLAGS - If this is set it will override the default CXXFLAGS specified in SConstruct.

Build the release python binaries with logging disabled and install them (along with the extensions) to /destdir/python/fife:

 scons DESTDIR=/desdir --python-prefix=/python --disable-log install-python