List of Build Automation Software - Non-Make-based Tools

Non-Make-based Tools

• Apache Ant, popular for Java platform development and uses an XML file format
• Apache Buildr, open-source build system, Rake-based, gives full power of scripting in Ruby with integral support for most abilities wanted in a build system
• Apache Ivy
• Apache Maven, a Java platform tool for project management and automated software build
• A-A-P, a Python based build tool
• Boost.Build
• bras
• builditis
• Buildtool
• Cabal, common architecture for building applications and libraries in the programming language Haskell
• Cake, a Python based build tool
• cake, a Clojure build tool
• cook
• dev-env
• Flowtracer
• Gant, a Groovy-based build system that uses Ant tasks.
• Gconfigure
• Gradle, an open-source build and automation system with a Groovy Rake domain specific language (DSL), combining the advantages of Ant and Maven plus providing many innovative features like a reliable incremental build
• hmake
• Hyper Build, visually design the build process via an easy-to-use user interface using the hundreds of built-in actions for the most commonly used tasks and tools
• Invmake, a python minimal building tool inspiring from make but simpler and with inverse dependency graph. It's centered in intuitiveness rather than speed. Focus on personal projects.
• Istrice
• leiningen, a Clojure build tool
• Meique, Build tool for C and C++ that uses Lua for scripting.
• microbuild, lightweight Python build tool. Build scripts written in pure Python with a decorator used to specify task dependencies and automatically generate a command line interface.
• MSBuild, the Microsoft build engine
• mxx-ru
• NAnt, a tool similar to Ant for the .NET Framework
• ninja
• ocamlbuild
• Odin
• OSE
• Perforce Jam, a generally enhanced, ground-up tool which is similar to Make
• PerlBuildSystem
• Phing
• ProjectBuilder
• pynt, a pure Python build tool. Forked from microbuild
• Rant
• Schmant
• Simple Build Tool, a build tool built on a Scala-based DSL
• SCons, Python-based, with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake, descended from a Perl build driver called Cons
• Shake, a tool written in Haskell which provides automatic build parallelism and fine-grained dependency tracking
• Source 2 Binary
• Sweet Build, a Lua scriptable build tool
• tup, build system that uses file system monitoring to provide automatic dependency discovery and near-optimal build times
• Tweaker, allowing task definitions to be written in any languages (or intermixed languages) while providing a consistent interface for them all
• Visual Build, a graphical user interface software for software builds
• Waf is a Python-based tool for configuring, compiling and installing applications. It is a replacement for other tools such as Autotools, Scons, CMake or Ant
• XMake
• XMAKE
• Yruba, a rule system similar to Make or Ant for the shell