Jerkar Alternatives

Jerkar is described as 'Powerfull and rich featured pure Java build and automation tool. Jerkar includes among others, dependency management, repository publication, super-easy build editing and depbugging' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Jerkar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Jerkar alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Jerkar are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.

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  1. Meson icon
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    Open source build system featuring multiplatform support, extremely fast full and incremental builds, cross-compilation for operating systems and bare metal, readable build files using a non-Turing complete DSL, and built-in dependency management.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. SBT icon
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    SBT is a build tool for Scala. It is like Ant or Maven but with hieroglyphics.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. Cake icon
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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)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  4. NAnt icon
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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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  5. Buildr icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Task icon
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    Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  7. 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.

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8.  Like

    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

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    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  9. UppercuT icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. Rsbuild icon
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    Simple, fast, extensible build tool. Powered by Rspack.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • React
    • Node.JS
    • Vue.js
    • Typescript
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  11.  Like

    A modern build, configuration management, ci/cd tool for automation Flexible data modelling, design of composition, OO and test driven Comprehensive workflow orchestration: full support all type of condition, loop(recursive), break, assert.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
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  12. Nx icon
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    Next generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • US flagUnited States
    Nx screenshot 1
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