First time building, SCons error

Gojira

Hi all!

So I downloaded godot master and tried to build, no dice. The build script fails almost immediately with

Traceback (most recent call last): File "SConstruct", line 3, in <module> EnsureSConsVersion(0, 98, 1) NameError: name 'EnsureSConsVersion' is not defined

I tried installing SCons as part of the Python standard library with

python setup.py install --standard-lib

but that didn't help. Any ideas or pointers? Maybe there's something further in SCons or Godo-master I need to set up first?

TwistedTwigleg

I should clarify that I'm by no means an experienced with SCons. Although I've successfully compiled Godot from source several times, I have very little knowledge on how the SCons actually works.

I think the problem is the version of SCons you have installed. What the error message is trying to tell you is that it cannot find a definition for the function called 'EnsureSconsVerison", which really means python cannot find said function. I did a quick google search and read the official SCons documentation on EnsureSConsVersion. It seems likely that it has something to do with your version of SCons.

I'm not sure on a fix, but I'd suggest trying to reinstall SCons. If that doesn't work, maybe try following all of the steps in the Godot docs just to see if it helps? As I said above, I don't really know how these kinda things actually work... :sweat_smile:

Gojira

I was trying to build without fully going through all the steps to set up MS Visual Studio for Godot. I'll give that a try and see if it helps.

Gojira

This is an aside to the main question, but I see that MingGW is a supported compiler. Does MinGW work with Godot under Windows?

TwistedTwigleg

It looks like it’s possible, according to this Reddit post. I’m not sure if it will work with newer versions of Godot though, as it’s from 2014.