Meson Alternatives

Apps similar to Meson include CMake, which is free and open source. Other options are Maven, GNU Make, Gradle and Ant. You can choose from more than 10 Build Systems like Meson for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone.

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  1. BuildAMation icon
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    BuildAMation is a build system and project generator for C and C++ desktop applications, with an extensible architecture. It is written in C#, and works on Windows, Linux and Apple OSX. Build modes supported are a multithreaded native command line build, VisualStudio solution...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Jerkar icon
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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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    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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    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  6. 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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    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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  8. xmake icon
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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 ...

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
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  9. Bazel icon
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    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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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