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What are the best Make-based build automation tools?
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Best Make-based build automation tools
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CMake
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Ninja
Free
Windows, Linux, Mac
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GNU make
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Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac
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Meson
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Cake
Free
Windows, Linux, Mac
C#
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CMake
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CMake
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CMake
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Create build files for many build systems
Including plain makefile, but also ninja or NMake files. It can also generate Visual Studio project files or code blocks files. For QT creator and Visual Studio it can even be used as a native build system instead of their qtmake files.
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Multiplatform
Works at least on Windows, Linux, Mac
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Ninja
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Ninja
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Ninja
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4
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Easy horizontal scaling
Ninja is stateless by design. This makes horizontal scaling very easy and just a matter of adding servers.
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Little user choice in organization
Since most of the code and folder structure are automatically generated, this leaves little room to the developer on how they will organize their project.
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Simple set up
Once dependencies like Maven are installed, it is up and running in minutes with one simple command.
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GNU make
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GNU make
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GNU make
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Platforms:
Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac
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Meson
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Meson
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Meson
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Cake
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Cake
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Cake
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Cross platform
Windows, Linux and macOS versions available.
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No GUI
Everything is script based, there is no graphical front end.
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Cross platform build automation system developed in C#. Useful for compiling code, copy files/folders, running unit tests, compress files and building NuGet packages.
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Tools support
Standard support for MSBuild, MSTest, xUnit, NUnit, NuGet, ILMerge, WiX and SignTool.
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Premake
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Premake
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Premake
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