Meson Alternatives

Meson is described as 'Open source build system with multiplatform support, fast full and incremental builds, cross-compilation capabilities, and a user-friendly non-Turing complete DSL' and is a Build System in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Meson for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best Meson alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Meson are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.

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  1. Task icon

    Task

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    Task is a task runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  2. BuildAMation icon

    BuildAMation

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. Reggae build system icon

    Reggae build system

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    Reggae is a (meta) build system with multiple front (D, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Lua) and backends (make, ninja, tup, custom). This is alpha software, only tested on Linux and likely to have breaking changes made.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Jerkar icon

    Jerkar

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    Powerfull and rich featured pure Java build and automation tool. Jerkar includes among others, dependency management, repository publication, super-easy build editing and depbugging.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. W

    Werk

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    Werk is a command runner and simplistic build system. It is intended to supplant Make in projects that need a simple build tool adjacent to a main build system, such as Cargo or NPM.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  8. Rsbuild icon

    Rsbuild

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    Simple, fast, extensible build tool. Powered by Rspack.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • React
    • Node.JS
    • Vue.js
    • Typescript
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  9. U

    UPcmd

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    A modern build, configuration management, ci/cd tool for automation Flexible data modelling, design of composition, OO and test driven Comprehensive workflow orchestration: full support all type of condition, loop(recursive), break, assert.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
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  10. xmake icon

    xmake

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    xmake is a cross-platform build utility based on Lua. The project focuses on making development and building easier and provides many features (e.g package, install, plugin, macro, action, option, task ...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • CN flagChina
    xmake screenshot 1
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  11. Bazel icon

    Bazel

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    Bazel is an open-source build and test tool similar to Make, Maven, and Gradle. It uses a human-readable, high-level build language. Bazel supports projects in multiple languages and builds outputs for multiple platforms.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
    Bazel screenshot 1
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