The Best 12 Ninja Build Alternatives

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    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 icon

    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 icon

    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 icon

    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

  • Premake icon

    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 icon

    waf

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Xcode Eclipse

  • qmake icon

    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

  • Autoconf icon

    Autoconf

    GNU Autoconf is a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing and packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Automake icon

    Automake

    GNU Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • tup icon

    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