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Asked: 2026-06-04T03:16:19+00:00

I am wondering how I should manage a growing C++ project. Now, I am

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I am wondering how I should manage a growing C++ project. Now, I am developing a project with Netbeans and it’s dirty work generating makefiles. The project has become too big and I have decided to split it up into a few parts. What is the best way of doing this?

I am trying to use Scons as my build system. I have had some success with it, but should I edit the build scripts every time I append or delete files. It’s too dull.

So I need your advice.

P.S. By the way, how does a large project like google chrome do this? Does everybody use some kind of IDE to build scripts generated only for software distribution?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I also use Netbeans for C++ and compile with SCons. I use the jVi Netbeans plugin which really works well.

    For some reason the Netbeans Python plugin is no longer official, which I dont understand at all. You can still get it though, and it really makes editing the SCons build scripts a nice experience. Even though Netbeans doesnt have a SCons plugin (yet?) you can still configure its build command to execute SCons.

    As for maintaining the SCons scripts automatically by the IDE, I dont do that either, I do that by hand. But its not like I have to deal with this on a daily basis, so I dont see that its that important, especially considering how easy to read the scripts are.

    Here’s the build script in SCons that does the same as mentioned previously for CMake:

    env = Environment()
env.EnsurePythonVersion(2, 5)
env.EnsureSConsVersion(2, 1)

libTarget = env.SharedLibrary(target = 'foo', source = ['a.cpp', 'b.cpp', 'c.pp'])
env.Program(target = 'bar', source = ['bar.cpp', libTarget])

    The SCons Glob() function is a nice option, but I tend to shy away from automatically building all the files in a directory. The same goes for listing sub-directories to be built. Ive been burned enough times by this, and prefer explicitly specifying the file/dirs to be built.

    In case you hear those rumors that SCons is slower than other alternatives, the SCons GoFastButton has some pointers that can help out.

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