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CMake is a free, cross-platform, software development tool for building applications via compiler-independent instructions. It also can automate testing , packaging and installation . It runs on a variety of platforms and supports many programming languages .
Waf is a build automation tool designed to assist in the automatic compilation and installation of computer software.It is written in Python and maintained by Thomas Nagy.. Waf's source code is open source software, released under the terms of the New BSD License, though its accompanying documentation is under the CC-BY-NC-ND license, which forbids both modification and commercial ...
Autoconf was begun in the summer of 1991 by David Mackenzie to support his work at the Free Software Foundation.In the subsequent years it grew to include enhancements from a variety of authors and became the most widely used build configuration system for writing portable free or open-source software.
Meson can automatically find and use external dependencies installed on the users system via pkg-config, CMake, and project-specific lookups. [18] Alternatively, or as a fallback, a dependency can be provided as a subproject – a Meson project within another, either contained or as a download link, possibly with patches. [ 19 ]
Automake is written in Perl and must be used with GNU Autoconf. [2] Automake contains the following commands: aclocal; automake; aclocal, however, is a general-purpose program that can be useful to autoconf users.
Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that simplifies and automates the process of building a complete and bootable Linux environment for an embedded system, while using cross-compilation to allow building for multiple target platforms on a single Linux-based development system.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC as free software under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain which is used for most projects related to GNU and the Linux kernel. With roughly 15 million lines of code in 2019, GCC is one of the largest free programs in existence. [4]
GDebi, a GTK-based tool sponsored for Ubuntu. (There is also a Qt version, available in the Ubuntu repositories as gdebi-kde.) apt-cdrom, a way to add a new CDROM to APT's list of available repositories (sources.lists). It is necessary to use apt-cdrom to add CDs to the APT system, it cannot be done by hand.