premake5 is a command line utility that reads a scripted definition of a software project and outputs Makefiles or other lower-level build files.

osc is a command line interface to the Open Build Service. It allows you to checkout, commit, perform reviews etc. The vast majority of the OBS functionality is available via commands and the rest can be reached via direct API calls.

ACR tries to replace autoconf functionality generating a full-compatible configure script, but relying on Bourne shell script instead of m4.

bmake is a program designed to simplify the maintenance of other programs. Its input is a list of specifications as to the files upon which programs and other files depend.

Gnulib is a central location for common infrastructure needed by GNU packages. It provides a wide variety of functionality, e.g., portability across many systems, working with Unicode strings, cryptographic computation, and much more. The code is intended to be shared at the level of source files, rather than being a standalone library that is distributed, built, and installed. The included gnulib-tool script helps with using Gnulib code in other packages. Gnulib also includes copies of licensing and maintenance-related files, for convenience.

This package provides the meson command, implemented as a symbolic link to the muon command of muon package.

The Meson build system is focused on user-friendliness and speed. It can compile code written in C, C++, Fortran, Java, Rust, and other languages. Meson provides features comparable to those of the Autoconf/Automake/make combo. Build specifications, also known as Meson files, are written in a custom domain-specific language (DSL) that resembles Python.

This package provides the ninja command, implemented as a symbolic link to the samu command of samurai package.

Potato Make is a Scheme library that aims to simplify the task of maintaining, updating, and regenerating programs. It is inspired by the POSIX make utility and allows writing a build script in Guile Scheme.

This package contains an implementation of POSIX make. The default configuration enables extensions. Generally these extensions are compatible with GNU make.

Build and publish crates with pyo3, rust-cpython and cffi bindings as well as rust binaries as python packages.

GN is a tool that collects information about a project from .gn files and generates build instructions for the Ninja build system.

Waf is a build system framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications.

Features:

• Automatic build order: the build order is computed from input and output files, among others

• Automatic dependencies: tasks to execute are detected by hashing files and commands

• Performance: tasks are executed in parallel automatically, the startup time is meant to be fast (separation between configuration and build)

• Flexibility: new commands and tasks can be added very easily through subclassing, bottlenecks for specific builds can be eliminated through dynamic method replacement

• Extensibility: though many programming languages and compilers are already supported by default, many others are available as extensions

• IDE support: Eclipse, Visual Studio and Xcode project generators (waflib/extras/)

• Documentation: the application is based on a robust model documented in The Waf Book and in the API docs

• Python compatibility: cPython 2.7 to 3.x, Jython 2.7 and PyPy

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.

This package provides a Python build backend that uses the uv command.

GENie generates projects from Lua scripts, making it easy to apply the same settings to multiple projects. It supports generating projects using GNU Makefiles, JSON Compilation Database, and experimentally Ninja.

This package provides the reference manual of Meson (meson-reference(3)).

samurai is a ninja-compatible build tool written in C99 with a focus on simplicity, speed, and portability. It is feature-complete and supports most of the same options as ninja. This package provides the command samu. For a ninja command replacement, use the samu-as-ninja-wrapper package.

A JSON compilation database is used in the Clang project to provide information on how a given compilation unit is processed. With this, it is easy to re-run the compilation with alternate programs. Bear is used to generate such a compilation database.

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.

compdb is a command line tool to manipulate compilation databases. It eases the usage of tooling in a codebase by spoon-feeding the right compilation options.

compiledb provides a make python wrapper script which, besides executing the make build command, updates the JSON compilation database file corresponding to that build, resulting in a command-line interface similar to Bear.

Muon is an implementation of the meson build system in c99 with minimal dependencies.

Bam is a fast and flexible build system. Bam uses Lua to describe the build process. It takes its inspiration for the script files from scons. While scons focuses on being 100% correct when building, bam makes a few sacrifices to acquire fast full and incremental build times.