Build Tool

KJam is a build tool like make. It has a syntax similar to Jam, with more powerful features than the original. It has built-in very fast dependency scanning, per-target viewpathing, and C-like control flow. It is optimized for multi-processor machines and can accelerate building by launching... Platforms: Windows, *nix

Confix is a build tool for source code packages, on top of GNU Automake. It inspects the package's source code, tracks inter package dependencies, propagates checks across package boundaries, and finally writes Automake input files for the maintainer. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Prime Mover is a build tool, not unlike make. It is designed to be small, portable, flexible, powerful, and is very easy to deploy. Prime Mover can be distributed along with your application source code and does not require your end user to have anything other than a basic C compiler in order... Platforms: *nix

Ant-Eclipse is a task for the Java build tool Ant generating Eclipse projects to be just imported and used easily. Ant build scripts are used as a central place for the configuration of sources and libraries which the generated projects are based on. The most usual way to develop a software is... Platforms: *nix

Yabu is a replacement for the make build tool with some extended features. Its file format is similar, though not compatible with make. Compiling Yabu g++ -o yabu ya*.cc (where "g++" is the name of your C++ compiler) ./yabu tests (performs some basic tests) Installing Yabu Copy yabu and... Platforms: *nix

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

SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is... Platforms: *nix

NAnt is a free .NET build tool, in theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles, in practice it's a lot like Ant. NAnt is different - Instead of a model where it is extended with shell-based commands, NAnt is extended using task classes. Instead of writing shell commands, the... Platforms: Windows, *nix

RudeBuild is a non-intrusive bulk / unity C++ build tool that seamlessly integrates into Visual Studio 2010 and 2008. With the help of this component you can speed up your build times of large C++ projects by at least a factor of 5. RudeBuild comes in two flavors, as a Command-Line tool that... Platforms: Windows, 2K, XP, Windows Vista, 7

Forge is an external module build tool for SwordSearcher Bible Software. It is designed for users and publishers who need to be able to import a large amount of text into a SwordSearcher module without using SwordSearcher's internal user editor. Allows anyone to publish their Christian related... Platforms: Windows

Browser based continuous integration(schedulable build) tool for projects residing in cvs repositories, and build using the apache ant. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

A collection of all-purpose build scripts for the popular Ant build tool (see http://jakarta.apache.org), plus documentation.Topics are: best practices, building JSP tag libraries, EJB deployment descriptors, ...Development has ceased. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

AntAcid is a GUI front-end to Jakarta's ant build tool.Eliminates requirement to code directly in XML.Context-menus direct the user to allowable selections of Tasks, nested Tasks and their respective attributes.Generates xml buildfiles. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Provide a group of useful Eclipse plugins; such as Ant build tool view and a Robocode documentation help module. Currently supporting Eclipse R2.0 Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

makeme is a build tool written in Java. It is designed for projects with many subdirectories. It requires ANTLR to run. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Prebuild is a cross-platform XML-driven pre-build tool which allows developers to easily generate project files for major IDE's and .NET development tools including: Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, SharpDevelop, MonoDevelop, NAnt and Autotools. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Schemer is a scheme-based build tool, initially created to handle dependencies. Build files are written in pure scheme, with new syntax defined to handle dependency checking. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

An object-oriented, Turing-complete alternative to the Ant build tool for Java. Compatible with existing Ant Tasks. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The goal of DAST is to provide a formal, repeatable, reusable process for 'building' a Drupal site using a formal build tool and build language. DAST applies the concept of the software build to creating Drupal sites...Phing build files are syntactically identical to Ant build files and provide... Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris