Build System

Cake is a build system that combines the flexibility of Python build scripts with an incremental build speed that matches build systems written in C/C++. It requires Python 2.4-3.2 and natively supports Windows, Linux, Mac, Cygwin, MSVC and GCC. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Tcl automated build system -- system for automatic build of Tcl based starkits/starpacks and eTcl archives. Platforms: Mac

OMake is a build system with a similar style and syntax to GNU make but with many additional features, including support for large projects spanning multiple directories, default configuration files simplifying the standard compilation tasks, support for commands that produce several targets at... Platforms: *nix

PTXdist is a build system ("executable documentation") for compiling root filesystems for embedded systems. PTXdist is based on a KConfig configuration system in combination with a set of rules which describe how all the source packages out there have to be tweaked to be compiled into a proper... Platforms: *nix

aduna-build is the predecessor of Antmod, a modular Ant-based build system, using release descriptors. It is based on the build system originally developed at Aduna. See http://www.antmod.org/ Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Krypton is a software build tool that applies an artifact-oriented paradigm to the build whereby the focus is on what is built rather than how it is built. Krypton's standard library provides support for building both Java and .NET software. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

priest is an advanced incremental build system written in Python, introducing support for automatic dependency and recipe discovery. It supports single- and multi-threaded builds. Platforms: *nix

bu (Build Utilities) is a build system written in Python. Full documentation: http://packages.python.org/bu/ Platforms: *nix

Anvil is a build system designed to ease the construction of content pipelines, taking many concepts and the rule file syntax that powers Google's internal build system and making them accessible in a small, open-source Python library. It features a rich and extensible build file format and many... Platforms: *nix

ARPACK with Autotools is a distribution of ARPACK, the well-known sparse eigensolver, with a number of changes: * the most recent patches from the ARPACK download page applied * a nasty, potentially crashing bug fixed * the build system replaced by autoconf/automake Developer comments Note... Platforms: *nix

With T2 you can define targets for various purposes, ranging from embedded linux systems with a few MB of size over server configurations to a full desktop system featuring X.Org foundation, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.Org and many more. Those targets can be compiled for use on the most common... Platforms: *nix

Gradle is a free and open source build system that might just be a real quantum leap for build technology in the Java (JVM) world. Here are some key features of "Gradle": ?*A* A very flexible general purpose build tool like Ant. ?*A* Switchable, build-by-convention frameworks a la Maven (for... Platforms: Mac

BitCruncher is a build system designed for mobile (J2ME/MIDP/DoJa) applications written as a set of Ant scripts and tasks. BitCruncher is designed for building games but may as well be useful for other kinds of projects. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A self-contained and portable build system derived from the traditional 4.4BSD system. It implements Bourne configure script generation, concurrent building and it can compile IDE project files. It is portable to most operating systems and make flavors. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Cross-platform and cross-compilers stand-alone build system (or build environment). Purpose of this project is create easy for use, configure, scalable build system. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

EL4Ant is a light and efficient build system based on Apache Ant. A project is described in XML as modules with transitive dependencies. Features are provided thanks to plugins: Java execution, JUnit reports, EMMA code coverage, Eclipse integration... Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

An auto-build system for C/C++ projects based on GNU make, featuring auto sub-project dependency-and-linking, auto CVS/SVN checkout and functionality extensible via custom-image-type and plug-ins so that it can be useful for all target platforms. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Maven 2 and Maven 3 build system extension that allows writing annotated Mojos using JDK 1.5 annotations instead of doclet comments. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A task for the Apache 'Ant' build system. The 'mtxslt' (multi-XSLT) task extends the standard Ant 'xslt/style' task to make it easy to use multiple XSLT engines during the same build. This is useful for regression testing of XSLT scripts against Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

WOProject/WOLips is a WebObjects cross-platform build system and IDE framework. It is currently developed and distributed outside SourceForge at http://objectstyle.org/woproject/ Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux