<Li> MPW Make, developed for the classic Mac OS and similar to but not compatible with Unix make; the modern macOS (OS X) comes with both GNU make and BSD make; available as part of Macintosh Programmer's Workshop as a free, unsupported download from Apple </Li> <Li> PVCS - make, basically follows the concept of make but with a noticeable set of unique syntax features </Li> <Ul> <Li> Apache Ant, popular for Java platform development and uses an XML file format </Li> <Li> 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 </Li> <Li> Apache Maven, a Java platform tool for dependency management and automated software build </Li> <Li> ASDF LISP buildsystem for building LISP projects </Li> <Li> A-A-P, a Python - based build tool </Li> <Li> Bazel, Google's own build tool, now publicly available in Beta . </Li> <Li> BitBake, a Python - based tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux cross compilation </Li> <Li> Boot, a Java build and dependency management tool written in Clojure </Li> <Li> Buck, a build system developed and used by Facebook </Li> <Li> Buildout, a Python - based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts </Li> <Li> Cabal, common architecture for building applications and libraries in the programming language Haskell </Li> <Li> FinalBuilder, for Windows software developers . FinalBuilder provides a graphical IDE to both create and run build projects in a single application . Final builder also includes the ability the execute unit test, deploy web projects or install and test applications . </Li> <Li> Flowtracer </Li> <Li> Gradle, an open - source build and automation system with an Apache Groovy - based domain specific language (DSL), combining features of Apache Ant and Apache Maven with additional features like a reliable incremental build </Li> <Li> Grunt, a build tool for front - end web development </Li> <Li> Gulp, another build tool for front - end </Li> <Li> IncrediBuild </Li> <Li> Leiningen, a tool providing commonly performed tasks in Clojure projects, including build automation </Li> <Li> MSBuild, the Microsoft build engine </Li> <Li> NAnt, a tool similar to Ant for the . NET Framework </Li> <Li> Ninja, a small build system focused on speed by using build scripts generated by higher - level build systems </Li> <Li> Perforce Jam, a generally enhanced, ground - up tool which is similar to Make </Li> <Li> Psake, domain - specific language and build - automation tool written in PowerShell </Li> <Li> Qt Build System </Li> <Li> Rake, a Ruby - based build tool </Li> <Li> sbt (Scala Simple Build Tool), a build tool built on a Scala - based DSL </Li> <Li> SCons, Python - based, with integrated functionality similar to autoconf / automake </Li> <Li> Stack, a tool to build Haskell projects, manage their dependencies (compilers and libraries), and for testing and benchmarking . </Li> <Li> Tweaker, allowing task definitions to be written in any languages (or intermixed languages) while providing a consistent interface for them all </Li> <Li> Visual Build, a graphical user interface software for software builds </Li> <Li> 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 </Li> </Ul> <Li> Apache Ant, popular for Java platform development and uses an XML file format </Li>

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