Open Source Build Tools

GnuWin provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, relying only on libraries provided with any modern 32-bits MS-Windows operating system, such as 2000 / XP / Vista / 7

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.

BuildMaster3000 is a build server written in powershell. It comes with a web front end also written in powershell. It's designed to be completely and easily customizable; and if you know powershell, that's what it is.

Cross platform libraries and tools that may make your life easier.

GnuWin64 provides Win64-versions (x64) of GNU or similar open source tools. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating system for the AMD64 and Intel64 (EM64T) architecture.

VSPMS is the "Very Simple Project Management System", which is a cross-platform set of shell tools and aliases to establish and share project environment variables, aliases, documentation, and setup procedures.

The Wandering Developer Deploy Tools are a set of tools to help dotnet developers automate deployment. This is a useful toolkit if you wish to implement autoupdating in your application.

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.

msub - a Handy tool to read file(s) and perform substitutions using values of variables defined in makefile.

xSiteable is a fully relational website compiler written entirely in XSLT, using topic maps (using XTM directly) as the backbone information technology, bundled with the fast Sablotron XSLT parser, a GUI admin tool and other nifty features. Watch this sp