Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Xcode
- Eclipse
- Microsoft Visual Studio
Buildr is described as 'Apache Buildr is a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. We wanted something that’s simple and intuitive to use, so we only need to tell it what to do, and it takes care of the rest' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Buildr for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Buildr alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Buildr are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.
Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

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.
The easiest build framework you will ever use. Just answer three simple questions (What is the name of your solution? What is the path to source control? What is your company name?) and you are building.


Powerfull and rich featured pure Java build and automation tool. Jerkar includes among others, dependency management, repository publication, super-easy build editing and depbugging.



Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.

