The Best 14 Automake Alternatives

  • CMake

    CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Haiku

  • GNU Make

    Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Cygwin

  • SCons

    SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool. Think of SCons as an improved, cross-platform substitute for the classic Make...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ant

    Apache Ant is an Open Source Java-based build tool (for software development). It uses XML files to describe, structure and control the build process. Most actions are...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MakeMe

    Embedthis MakeMe is a modern replacement for make and autoconf. It manages the building of programs and products by direct compilation and the generation of IDE projects...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Premake

    Powerfully simple build configuration Describe your software project just once, using Premake's simple and easy to read syntax, and build it everywhere. Generate...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • waf

    Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Xcode Eclipse

  • qmake

    qmake is a tool from The Qt Company that helps simplify the build process for development project across different platforms. qmake automates the generation of Makefiles...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Ninja Build

    Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed. It differs from other build systems in two major respects: it is designed to have its input files generated by a...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • makebreed

    makebreed is a customizable shell script (./configure) that generates makefiles for C/C++ development projects using the gcc compiler. It is a simple, clean and easy...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • tup

    Tup is a file-based build system for Linux, OSX, and Windows. It inputs a list of file changes and a directed acyclic graph (DAG), then processes the DAG to execute the...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Meson

    Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux