Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Cake Alternatives
Cake is described as '(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' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cake for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Cake alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cake are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.
Alternatives list
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.
Powerfull and rich featured pure Java build and automation tool. Jerkar includes among others, dependency management, repository publication, super-easy build editing and depbugging.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Bazel is an open-source build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. It uses a human-readable, high-level build language. Bazel supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms.
Werk is a command runner and simplistic build system. It is intended to supplant Make in projects that need a simple build tool adjacent to a main build system, such as Cargo or NPM.
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