Open Source Build Tools

Cross-platform Java executable wrapper for creating lightweight Windows native EXEs. Provides advanced JRE search, application startup configuration and better user experience.

PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX and Solaris. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 2.3, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and uses the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility. The main goal of PyInstaller is to be compatible with 3rd-party packages out-of-the-box. This means that, with PyInstaller, all the required tricks to make external packages work are already integrated within PyInstaller itself so that there is no user intervention required. You'll never be required to look for tricks in wikis and apply custom modification to your files or your setup scripts. As an example, libraries like PyQt, Django or matplotlib are fully supported, without having to handle plugins or external data files manually.

Compiere ERP+CRM is the leading open source ERP solution for Distribution, Retail, Manufacturing and Service industries. Compiere automates accounting, supply chain, inventory and sales orders. Compiere ERP is distributed under GPL V2 by Compiere, Inc.

JarBuilder is a useful tool for Java programmers. It allows one to easily create jar files. JarBuilder is written in Java providing a nice Swing GUI.

Build around JDBC and XML, this tool allows you to maintain visual repesentations of a database's layout, edit table's data, generate code to bind objects to tables, and export data in XML format to easely export data from one database to another.

ACDK - Artefaktur Component Development Kit - is a platform independent C++-framework similar to Java or C#/.NET for generating distributed and scriptable components and applications.

DBIx::Connect is a Perl module module which facilitates configuration and creation of Perl DBI , DBIx::AnyDBD , or Alzabo -style database connections via configuration files and/or command-line arguments.

A framework for highly customisable e-commerce: A system for automatically build an e-commerce interface supporting product´s contraints and properties.

Gobisoft is a batch package builder for applications, it builds a self-install package of your programs. Creates a stand alone executable file that performs the (secured installation and removing) of the elements necessary to distribute your applications. The software offers many possibilities, such as executing commands before and after installation.

An Enterprise Focused Java Framework For Rapid Application Development. JAFFA is a Java web application development stack, build around Web 2.0 technologies (ExtJS, DWR, JAWR) with an extensive service architecture, meta-data layer and rules engine (based on JBoss AOP and Drools). It provides an event driven SOA infrastructure with advanced scheduling and queue sub-systems

QuickMake is a flexible compilation aid, based on the GNU "make" program. It was originally developed for building RAVL (Recognition And Vision Library), but it can be used for compiling any software project, however big or small.

cstem is a portable toolkit for probing and testing C/C++ system. It consist of 4 scripts: cprobe, cltest, cppdef, mkdep. cstem scripts can be used standalone or as part of software build systems. All scripts are portable and have no dependencies. See wiki for more information and examples.