Task Alternatives

Task is described as 'Runner / build tool that aims to be simpler and easier to use than, for example, GNU Make' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Task for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Task alternative is CMake, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Task are GNU Make, Maven, Gradle and Ant.

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  1. Smelt icon
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    Smelt is a simple and extensible task runner optimized for chip development workflows. Smelt makes it easy to programmatically define arbitrarily many test variants, run those tests in parallel, and analyze their results.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    • BSD
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  2. Rake icon
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    Rake is a software task management and build automation tool. It allows you to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as to group tasks in a namespace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  3. Autoconf icon
     4 likes

    GNU Autoconf is a tool for producing configure scripts for building, installing and packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4. Buck icon
     3 likes

    Buck is a build system developed and used by Facebook. It encourages the creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources, and supports a variety of languages on many platforms.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. qmake icon
     3 likes

    qmake is a tool from The Qt Company that helps simplify the build process for development project across different platforms. qmake automates the generation of Makefiles so that only a few lines of information are needed to create each Makefile.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. waf icon
     4 likes

    Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xcode
    • Eclipse
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  7. Meson icon
     2 likes

    Open source build system featuring multiplatform support, extremely fast full and incremental builds, cross-compilation for operating systems and bare metal, readable build files using a non-Turing complete DSL, and built-in dependency management.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Automake icon
     2 likes

    GNU Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. Phing icon
     1 like

    PHing Is Not GNU make; it's a PHP project build system or build tool 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Cake icon
     1 like

    Cake (C# Make) is a cross-platform build automation system with a C# DSL for tasks such as compiling code, copying files and folders, running unit tests, compressing files and building NuGet packages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. CheckInstall is a Linux program which eases installation & uninstallation of software compiled from source. After software compilation it can automatically generate a Slackware, RPM, or Debian-compatible package that can later be cleanly uninstalled.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  12. NAnt icon
     3 likes

    NAnt is a free .NET build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make's wrinkles. In practice it's a lot like Ant.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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