Welcome to the wiki of the SCons project! This is an open forum for development and use of SCons. Please, do feel free to contribute.

• AboutSCons - background information about scons
• FromMakeToScons - why scons? a critique of the venerable Make tool, and a history of build systems
• SconsVsOtherBuildTools - for those who want to compare SCons to other build tools.
• SconsProjects, open source projects which use SCons (add yours there). Can be a useful resource to learn new SCons tricks or just see it in action
• The SCons Discord channel. The preferred chat channel - preserves history, gives more formatting control, and just in general is now a much more active place than our IRC channel.
• #scons IRC channel on Libera Chat irc://irc.libera.char/scons
• TalksAndSlides - videos and presentation slides of SCons talks

• BasicConcepts - SCons building blocks
• SConsCrashCourse - write your first simple scripts in 5 minutes
• SconsProcessOverview - explanation of how SCons works and a list of many predefined functions in SCons
• SconsTutorial1 - An Introduction to SCons
• SconsTutorial2 - More Syntax, Shared Libraries, Install Targets
• IDEIntegration to use SCons from your favourite IDE
• FromQmakeToScons - how to make the switch
• SConsOnACluster - how to use SCons for high performance computing on many parellel machines

• the official SCons User Guide (HTML or PDF)
• the official SCons Manual page (HTML or PDF) - very detailed information about SCons features.
• the SCons Cookbook - various recipes for accomplishing common things.
• the SCons Recipes page - a gold mine of information, code snippets and various examples
• Frequently Asked Questions
• some platform specific notes

• HowToContribute - ideas for helping out the project in general (no hacking skills required!)
• A repository of Contributed Software (scons-contrib)
• ContributedBuilders - contributed builders (and other misc tools) to provide support for more languages/libraries. A number of these have more up to date versions in the scons-contrib repo.
• ToolsForFools - Guide for writing new Builders/Tools
• SconsToolbox for contributed modules/extensions/scripts
• ToolsIndex for Tool modules that are developed separately from SCons

• DeveloperGuide for those who wish to hack on the core code
• SConsDevelopers page assigning responsibilities for different parts of SCons (volunteer!)
• Buildbot, our automatically running build and performance reports
• Installing buildbot slaves, examples and commands for setting up a Buildbot slave (volunteer now!)
• Roadmap
• NeedForSpeed page to record possibilities for improving SCons' performance

Other Wiki Notes

• WikiUserPages, a page to find out about the people who edit this wiki (add yourself there!)