I am trying to configure my Intellij Clion IDE for working with ns-3. Since ns-3 is using waf, it is more tricky than i thought and would be really happy to hear any advice

I have cloned and built the waf script using: ./waf-light configure Then to build my project (provided by Gomspace) I need to add waf and the eclipse.py to my path. So far I haven't found bette...

I'd like to generate a simple DOT file when building a C++ project with waf. Ideally I'd like to just use the use and target attributes of the bld command to generate the file. Is this easily injec...

I want to build a shared library using waf as it looks much easier and less cluttered than GNU autotools. I actually have several questions so far related to the wscript I've started to write: VE...

My waf project has two dependencies, built with CMake. What I'm trying to do, is following the dynamic_build3 example found in waf git repo, create a tool which spawns CMake and after a successful ...

When building C++ code using the waf build system, can I choose a specific C++ compiler command? While it is possible to run something like "CXX=g++-4.9 waf configure", or to get the same effect b...

How can I add a include path to wscript? I know I can declare which files from which folders I want to include per any cpp file, like: def build(bld): bld(features='c cxx cxxprogram', includes=...

I need to suppress "-arch x86_64 -arch i386" flags Waf is passing to GCC. I am building an SDL/Opengl application. If I link against 32 bit SDL runtime I get error Undefined symbols for archite...

We are thinking about converting a really large project from using GNU Make to some more modern build tool. My current suggestion is to use SCons or Waf. Currently: Build times are around 15 min...

I'm building an WAF project. When i debug my project. I'm encounted this problem "The composition produced a single composition error. The root cause is provided below. Review the CompositionExce...

I am building a new NS3 module recently. In my code, I use something new features of the C++11 (c++0x), I want to add a gcc flags (CXXFLAGS) "-std=c++0x" to the waf configuration system. I tried t...

I'm trying to install pycairo on kubuntu 13.04, and it's giving me an error complaining about MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET: (virtualenv-3)naught101@naught101-chronos:/tmp/pycairo-1.10.0$ python waf co...

I found similar topic: What are the differences between Autotools, Cmake and Scons? , but my question is a little bit other and I think the answers could be other too. I found a lot of articles te...

I am using Waf to build a C project and gcov to have some test code coverage. However, Waf calls gcc in a way that produces foo.c.1.o from source file foo.c that confuses gcov when searching for th...

I am running a simulation like this ./waf --run scratch/myfile | awk -f filter.awk How can I kill the waf command as soon as filter.awk detects that something happened (e.g. after a specific l...

I have a medium-sized C++/Python project that requires external dependencies and tools to get compiled. Namely, to interact with Qt's MOC compiler among other stuff. This project produces a librar...

When compiling my project with clang++, the path to the source files is apparently not included in the object code. This means that gdb is unable to find source files to display code with. For spec...

I want to build a shared library. GNU/Linux is the development and target platform. C is the implementation language. I can't decide how I want to setup the build system and keep flitting ar...

I managed to compile my .proto files like this: def build(bld): bld(rule='protoc --cpp_out=. -I.. ${SRC}', source='a.proto b.proto', name='genproto') Seems to work nice, when I make changes to ...

I am, trying to find the gstreamer lib in windows (msvc) using pkg-config pkg-config gstreamer-0.10 --cflags --libs but i am getting any result like this Package gstreamer-0.10 was not fo...

I am trying to install py2cairo on a framework build (Mac OSX Lion) of python 2.7.3 using brew. I have been unsuccessful this far. First, I tried a simple brew install py2cairo This seems to wo...

Can the Waf build system generate Visual Studio project files for C/C++?

how do you set a target - maybe Waf calls them "commands" - to always be executed? That is to be like PHONY targets in Make? I'm using Waf to build - among other things - a Visual Studio solution,...

We are looking for adequate build tool for a desktop GUI application to be written in D (using Qt toolkit), consisting of several native libraries, using 3rd party C-lib(s). It has to build on Linu...

I'm using Eclipse / PyDev trying to find a way to debug code that uses subprocess.Popen to create a child process: I want to be able to debug the child process that is created. The problem is that ...