contributing/development/compiling/introduction_to_the_buildsystem

[giscus[bot]]

contributing/development/compiling/introduction_to_the_buildsystem

Godot is a primarily C++ project and it uses the SCons build system. We love SCons for how maintainable and easy to set up it makes our buildsystem. And thanks to that compiling Godot from source c...

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/contributing/development/compiling/introduction_to_the_buildsystem.html

[dustdfg]

git clean can be used with --exclude=<file/folder> to preserve some files. It is useful if you want to make clean build but don't want to rewrite your custom.py file so you can just run git clean -fixd --exclude=custom.py

[enetheru]

This line from the Target heading was pointed out to me today:

target=template_debug: Build with C++ debugging symbols (defines: DEBUG_ENABLED, -O2//O2)

I don't think its correct, from reading SConscript file, the debug symbol flags are predicated on the debug_symbols flag. dev_build also implies debug_symbols unless overridden. But I see no path from template_debug to debug_symbols.

[Calinou]

Pull request opened:

• Fix meaning of target=template_debug in Introduction to the buildsystem godot-docs#10647