Build systems

Articles

• about the Make (make) family:

  • Recursive Make Considered Harmful;

  • Ask Mr. Make;

  • Dependency Management -- The irony of Make;

  • What is Wrong with Make?;

  • Implementing the GNU make "jobserver";

• from Google:

  • Build in the Cloud: Accessing Source Code;

  • Build in the Cloud: How the Build System works;

  • Build in the Cloud: Distributing Build Steps;

  • Build in the Cloud: Distributing Build Outputs;

• about Maven (mvn) and related / derived systems:

  • Maven is broken by design;

  • In quest of the ultimate build tool;

  • Recursive Maven considered harmful;

• about redo and related / derived systems:

  • Rebuilding target files atomically;

  • Target files depend on build scripts;

• miscellaneous:

  • Make alternatives;

  • Scons vs other build tools;

  • Finite Resources in Shake;

  • Shake Before Building -- Replacing Make with Haskell;

  • Why is Build automation important?;

  • File up-to-date checks;

  • Types of inputs and outputs: Explicit versus Implicit;

  • Implicit outputs: badness in a build;

Software

(in no particular order)

• GNU Make (command make) (written in C);

• Plan9 mk (command mk) (written in C);

• Jam (from FreeType);

• Cons (???);

• GNU Cons (command cons) (written in Perl);

• SCons (command scons) (written in Python);

• Cook;

• CMake (command cmake) (written in C/C++ ?);

• Fabricate;

• Ninja (command ninja) (written in C/C++ ?);

• Jam (from Perforce);

• nmake (from AT&T);

• OpenMake;

• Ant (command ant) (written in Java);

• Makeit;

• Jam (from Boost);

• boost.build;

• AAP;

• Rant;

• Rake (command rake) (written in Ruby);

• Makeapp;

• Waf (command waf) (written in Python);

• Bake;

• Bras;

• gyp (command gyp) (written in Python) (from Google);

• redo (written in Python);

• tup (command tup) (written in C);

• Fubsy;

• Buck (command buck) (written in Java);

• Maven (command mvn) (written in Java);

• Gradle (written in Java);

• Ivy (written in Java);

• shake (command shake) (written in Haskel);

• credo (written in Sh);

• redo (written in Sh) (by Daniel J. Bernstein);

• Grunt (written in NodeJS);

• Gulp (written in NodeJS);

• Jake (written in NodeJS);

• Fez (written in NodeJS);

• QRBuild (written in C#);

• fabricate (written in Python);

• Crumb (written in C);

• erlang.mk (based on Make) (for Erlang);

• redux (command redux) (written in Go);

• tundra (written in C);

• pants (command pants) (written in Python) (from Twitter);

• leiningen (command lein) (written in Clojure) (for Clojure);

• repobuild (command repobuild) (written in C/C++);

• nix;

• premake;