You need to write a shell script to invoke scons, which is a Python script that on Unix would execute as a shell script. On Windows you need to execute "python scons" but you need to specify the full paths both to Python and to the scons script.

Hope this helps,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: jpff@codemist.co.uk
>Sent: Aug 10, 2006 4:30 AM
>To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Cs-dev] Help request for XP
>
>I would very much like to be able to build Csound5 on Windows XP but I
>am having a load of problems; it is tempting to blame the instability
>of XP, as I am getting blue screens after a period, very slow actions,
>inability to install some software (*) etc, but I have a long history of
>not getting on with Windows -- only windows95 ever behaved stably!
>
>Anyway, by question is about installing Msys, MinWG and Scons.  I
>think I followed the instructions to install the first two, and I can
>start Msys and get a bash window.  It even seems to call gcc when
>asked.  I have installed Python and also scons, but I cannot find out
>how to call scons, or even where the binary is.  I suspect search
>paths but am not sure (a) what is needed and (b) how to do it.
>
>I would appreciate some very simple step-by-step instructions
>
>==John ffitch
>
>(*) Failed software includes digital camera support, Windows XP64,
>Windows updates.  CD is being read all the time, FireFox can take 3-5
>minutes to load.... on a AMD64 at ~2GHz.  No problems on Linux though.
>
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