30 alternatives · from build automation software

Alternatives to Bazel

Bazel is a free, open-source build and test tool for projects that span languages, platforms, and large codebases. It caches prior work, rebuilds changed targets, and runs tasks in parallel. Starlark BUILD files support custom rules, while sandboxed and hermetic execution can improve reproducibility. Bazel runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows and can produce desktop, server, Android, and iOS outputs. Alternatives make sense when you need capabilities outside Bazel’s core build…

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AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodeBuild is a cloud service for automating software builds.

Free planWebAPILinux

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fastlane

fastlane is a free, open-source platform for automating iOS and Android app development and release workflows.

Free planAndroidiOSLinux

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Nx

Nx is a build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos, with plugins that can extend it to other languages.

Free planWebLinuxmacOS

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FASTBuild
FASTBuild is a free, open-source build system for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.6Free plan
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Open Build Service
Open Build Service (OBS) automates building and distributing binary packages from source code in consistent, reproducible builds.
Free planWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
6.6Free plan
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Qbs
Qbs is a free build automation tool for managing software projects across platforms.
Free planAndroidiOSLinuxmacOS
6.6Free plan
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Apache Maven
Apache Maven is a build tool for Java projects that uses a project object model, or POM, to manage compilation, testing, and documentation.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows
6.5Free plan
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Gradle
Gradle Build Tool is a free, open-source system for automating software builds across projects of different types and sizes.
Free planAPILinuxmacOSWindows
6.5Free plan
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Buildroot
Buildroot is a free, open-source tool for building complete Linux systems for embedded devices through cross-compilation.
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted
6.4Free plan
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qmake
qmake is a build tool for applications, libraries, and other components.
Free planiOSLinuxmacOSWindows
6.4Free plan
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SCons
SCons is an open source software construction tool that provides a cross-platform alternative to Make.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows
6.4Free plan
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Ninja
Ninja is a free build system focused on evaluating incremental builds quickly.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.3Free plan
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Pants
Pants is a free build system for codebases of different sizes, focused on Python, Go, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Shell, and Docker.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.3Free plan
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Rush
Rush is a free monorepo manager for JavaScript developers maintaining many packages in a shared Git repository.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.3Free plan
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Shake
Shake is a free, open-source Haskell library for writing build systems as an alternative to make, Ant and Scons.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.3Free plan
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Buck2
Buck2 is a free build system from Meta for large-scale repositories that combine multiple programming languages.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows
6.2Free plan
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Meson
Meson is a free, open-source build system for projects in C, C++, C#, D, Fortran, Java, and Rust.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.2Free plan
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Xmake
Xmake is a free, Lua-based build utility that can compile source code or generate project files.
AndroidiOSLinuxmacOS
6.2
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Apache Ant
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool for running processes laid out in build files as targets and tasks.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows
6.1Free plan
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distcc
distcc is free software that distributes C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ builds across networked machines.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hostedWindows
6.1Free plan
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GN
GN is a free meta-build system that generates Ninja build files for software projects.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.1Free plan
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Premake
Premake is a free, cross-platform command-line tool that reads scripted project definitions and creates project files for development toolsets.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.1Free plan
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Prepros
LinuxmacOSWindows
6.1$29 one-time
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Rake
Rake is a Make-like task runner written in Ruby for defining tasks and their dependencies.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.1Free plan
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Tup
Tup is a file-based build system for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.1Free plan
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CodeKit
macOS
6.0$39 one-time
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Google Cloud Build
WebAPILinux
6.0$0.01 usage-based
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sbt
sbt is a free, open-source build tool for Scala, Java, and more.
Free planLinuxmacOSWindows
6.0Free plan
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moon
moon is a free, open-source tool for organizing repositories and coordinating tasks in web ecosystem codebases.
LinuxmacOSWindows
5.8
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