Premake!

The latest iteration of Premake, featuring an improved platform system, support for third-party modules, and loads of new features. The latest in Premake's 4.x stable branch.

Premake 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. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice.

    tags: build-automation build-tool compiling compiling-tool cross-platform
  • 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.

    tags: build-automation software-development
  • 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 utility with integrated functionality similar to autoconf/automake and compiler caches such as ccache. In short, SCons is an easier, more reliable and faster way to build software.

    tags: build-automation build-tool compiling compiling-tool cross-platform
  • 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 higher-level build system, and it is designed to run builds as fast as possible.

    tags: build-automation build-tool compiling compiling-tool cross-platform
  • 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.

    tags: build-automation compiling compiling-tool development development-tool
  • waf

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

    tags: Portable build-tool compiling cross-platform development
  • BuildAMation

  • BuildAMation is a build system and project generator for C and C++ desktop applications, with an extensible architecture. It is written in C#, and works on Windows, Linux and Apple OSX. Build modes supported are a multithreaded native command line build, VisualStudio solution generation, Xcode workspace generation, and MakeFile generation. Packages extend the core infrastructure, and packages can be logically grouped into package repositories.

    tags: build-tool build-system
  • Automake

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

    tags: build-automation compiling compiling-tool development development-tool
  • qmake

  • Manual: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmake-manual.html

    tags: build-automation build-tool compiling compiling-tool cross-platform
  • 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 alternative to other build systems like cmake or gnu autotools.

    tags: configure cmake makefile autotools automake
  • autosetup

  • autosetup is a tool, similar to autoconf, to configure a build system for the appropriate environment, according to the system capabilities and the user-selected options.

    tags: build-automation build-system build-tool c-development c-plus-plus
  • Setup.shl

  • setup - A simple Bash library for setting up a directory structure using Makefile-like definitions.

    tags: bash build-automation build-tool continuous-builds parallel-builds