Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- BSD


Phing is described as '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' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Phing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Android apps. The best Phing alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Phing are GNU Make, Maven, Ant and SCons.




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

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.
