CMake Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   NAnt

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   autosetup

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   autosetup is a tool, similar to autoconf, to configure a build system for the appropriate environment, according to the system capabilities and the user-selected options.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Build System

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD

   A

   

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   Phing

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   PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool based on ?Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   Cake

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Build System

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   • United States

   

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   Nx

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   Next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations.

   39 Nx alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MIT)

   Application type

   • Build System

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Self-Hosted

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Werk

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   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Build System

   Platforms

   • Rust
   • Linux
   • Mac
   • Windows
   • BSD

   W

   

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   Jerkar

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   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

   

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    RiotKit Do

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    RKD: Task executor - balance between Makefile and Gradle. Written in Python. Powerful tool for every DevOps. Automates production tasks as well as local development tasks.

    19 RiotKit Do alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

    

    

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    Autark

     1 like

    A declarative, self-bootstrapping build system for portable, vendored source distributions with proper dependency tracking.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Origin

    • Estonia
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    Yake

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    Simple script to make Your coding more efficient by executing long commands using short aliases from local Yakefile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Netherlands
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    • Netherlands
    • EU

    

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    makebreed

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    makebreed is a customizable shell script (./configure) that generates makefiles for C/C++ development projects using the gcc compiler. It is a simple, clean and easy alternative to other build systems like cmake or gnu autotools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    Setup.shl

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    setup - A simple Bash library for setting up a directory structure using Makefile-like definitions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS

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