Maven Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   xmake

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   xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua. The project focuses on making development and building easier and provides many features (e.g package, install, plugin, macro, action, option, task ...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Build System

   Origin

   • China

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Android
   • iPhone

   • China

   

   

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   pypyr

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   pypyr is an open source task-runner for automation pipelines. pypyr lets you script sequential tasks in a simple yaml format with conditional execution, loops, error handling and retries for any step in your pipeline.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Self-Hosted

   

   

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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

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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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   Buck

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   Buck is a build system developed and used by Facebook. It encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux

   

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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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   waf

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   Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Xcode
   • Eclipse
   • Microsoft Visual Studio

   

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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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    Buildr

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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

    • Build System

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Anise

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    one software project administration tool for all environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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    Rake

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    Rake is a software task management and build automation tool. It allows you to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as to group tasks in a namespace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    

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    Reggae build system

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

    Application type

    • Build System

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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