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Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool. In theory, it is kind of like Make, but without Make's wrinkles.

GNU Automake is a part of the GNU build system, along with GNU Autoconf and GNU Libtool. GNU Automake is a tool to create portable makefiles to manage the building and distribution of source code projects.

Rake is a Ruby make-like utility using standard Ruby syntax for the build specification file.

CMake is a cross-platform, open-source build system. It 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 cour choice, such as GNU Make, Visual Studio, and Xcode.

NAnt is a Ant like build tool for .NET

PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a project build system based on Apache Ant. You can do anything with it that you could do with a traditional build system like GNU make, and its use of simple XML build files and extensible PHP "task" classes make it an easy-to-use and highly flexible build framework. ... [More] Features include file transformations (e.g. token replacement, XSLT transformation, Smarty template transformations), file system operations, interactive build support, SQL execution, CVS operations, tools for creating PEAR packages, and much more. [Less]

The FreeBSD Ports and Packages collection is used to install and manage software on the FreeBSD operating system.

When you type "perl Makefile.PL" the Makefile is generated by MakeMaker. MakeMaker is a very cross-platform, Makefile generation tool specific to installing Perl modules. It works on every operating system that Perl does, and that means a LOT of operating systems. All Unixen, all versions of ... [More] Windows and yes, VMS. MakeMaker works with many different flavors and versions of make including GNU make, nmake, dmake, mms and mmk. If you're looking for some hard core cross platform code, look no further. MakeMaker is always looking for more testers and contributors using non-mainstream operating systems and makes. MakeMaker hopes to be retired someday, perhaps by Module::Build. [Less]

Cabal is a system for building and packaging Haskell libraries and programs. It defines a common interface for package authors and distributors to easily build their applications in a portable way. Cabal is part of a larger infrastructure for distributing, organizing, and cataloging Haskell libraries and programs.