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.
Maven Alternatives
Maven is described as 'Apache Maven is a Java-based tool for build automation and project management (in software development). It is centered around a Project Object Model (POM) described in a XML file that describes the project structure and its dependencies to other components and libraries' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Maven for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Maven alternative is Gradle, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Maven are CMake, GNU Make, Ant and Bazel.
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xmake is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Maven.
- xmake is Free and Open Source
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.
38 Nx alternativesNext generation build system with first class monorepo support and powerful integrations.
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
Platforms
- Mac
- Linux
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
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Xcode
- Eclipse
- Microsoft Visual Studio
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
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
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
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.
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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