Projects tagged ‘build_tools’ and ‘tools’

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 Autoconf is part of the GNU Build System. GNU Autoconf is a heavily used portability-enabling tool for UNIX-like systems, especially in free software projects. It is a compiler for a ... [More] domain-specific-language for describing library, header, and function dependencies of a project. It generates a shell script that can be run before building a package to customize the build to the system. [Less]

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.

The GNU linker and related programs and libraries: ar, as, gprof, ld, nm, ranlib, strip, libbfd. You depend on this utterly.

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

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime ... [More] libraries (modules) behind a consistent, portable interface. [Less]

Checkstyle is a development tool to help programmers write Java code that adheres to a coding standard. Its purpose is to automate the process of checking Java code, and to spare humans of this task.

Hudson is an automated build system for a team as well as a system that monitors automated jobs (such as cron jobs)

pkg-config is a helper tool used when compiling applications and libraries. It helps you insert the correct compiler options on the command line so an application can use gcc -o test test.c ... [More] `pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0` for instance, rather than hard-coding values on where to find glib (or other libraries). It is language-agnostic, so it can be used for defining the location of documentation tools, for instance. [Less]