Open Source Build Tools

CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files, and generate native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. The suite of CMake tools were created by Kitware in response to the need for a powerful, cross-platform build environment for open-source projects such as ITK and VTK. CMake is part of Kitware’s collection of commercially supported open-source platforms for software development and integrates with CDash to provide a comprehensive suite of tools. CDash is the testing server that aggregates, analyzes, and displays the results of software testing processes submitted from clients located around the world.

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.

A universal parsing tool and source code generator for generative programming. It extracts useful information by parsing (BNF parser generator) and generates source code by several techniques, by interpreting a scripting language for flexibility.

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.

Idee SDE is a set of ant script and best practice open source software. The intention of the project is to simplify the set up a build environment for a J2SE/J2EE project.

autotools-idl is a patch for automake and some autoconf scripts that adds support for IDL and C++ ORBs. It provides full support for compiling IDL files to C++ stubs and skeletons. The autoconf scripts provide unified detection of different C++ ORBs.

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.

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ApacheBuilder builds Apache (with optional modules of Mod_SSL and Mod_Perl) from sources, prompting for config params of location, etc. When done, it starts Apache and verifies it all works ok.

BeanClipse is a NetBeans plugin for Eclipse: NetBeans runs embedded within the Eclipse platform as a plugin offering the best of both worlds to Java developers. May be just a joke ;-) .... Check also it's twin at : http://sf.net/projects/netclipse

An Ant task for changing the ownership of files on Unix.

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.

From the XML definition of your database, DewDrop will generate clean and human-readable SQL DDL code for any supported target database. This means you can define your database just once in XML, and have it work for any database automatically.

This is a collection of Eclipse plug-ins that help you work with .NET. If you used tools like Emonic, this is something that will be helpful. Current functional tools include NUnit and NAnt support. Both tools work like their Java equivalents.

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.

Inst.ant - Installer Tasks for Ant

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

Decouple your GUI building code from the rest of your application. Using an XML description, the Java Gui Builder will build appropriate windows, controls and objects for later retrieval by the mainstream code.

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.

A database independant form builder. Designed to build web interfaces based on a database schema. Providing user administration, authenication, form validation, work flows and more. Based on ideas from Oracle Forms and Sebiel. Works with MySQL, PostgreSQL

C/C++/Java source code library and Build Environment. Contains code for threading, inter-thread communication (ITC), sockets, embedded database, parsing, fileio, etc. The majority of the library is designed for embedded development.