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Build System Generators

Tools for generating native build configurations and managing build processes across multiple platforms (e.g. generating Makefiles, Ninja build files, etc.).

21 projects

51,504 contributors

$734M

Bazel

Bazel is an open-source build and test tool that enables reproducible builds across multiple programming languages and platforms. It uses a human-readable build language and creates a dependency graph to efficiently build and test software at scale.

Contributors

16,370

Organizations

3,032

Software value

$366M

CocoaPods

CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that simplifies the process of integrating third-party libraries into iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS applications. It provides a centralized repository of libraries and handles dependency resolution, project integration, and version management.

Contributors

13,977

Organizations

2,345

Software value

$15M

Robot Operating System (ROS)

ROS (Robot Operating System) is an open-source middleware framework and collection of software libraries for building robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more to help developers create robust robot behavior across a wide variety of platforms.

Contributors

8,893

Organizations

1,162

Software value

$282M

Meson

The Meson Build System

Contributors

4,717

Organizations

1,280

Software value

$5.8M

Ninja

Ninja is a small build system focused on speed. It differs from other build systems by being designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build system, and by being as fast as possible while still being reliable.

Contributors

2,054

Organizations

563

Software value

$858K

Xmake

Xmake is a cross-platform build utility that uses Lua as its configuration language. It provides a simple and efficient build system with features like package management, toolchain management, and cross-compilation support for C/C++ and other programming languages.

Contributors

1,872

Organizations

298

Software value

$9.1M

Premake

Premake

Contributors

1,085

Organizations

197

Software value

$19M

@mapbox/node-pre-gyp

Node.js native addon binary installer tool that manages the compilation and installation of native addons, supporting cross-platform builds and pre-compiled binaries

Contributors

997

Organizations

349

Software value

$257K

Bear

Bear is a build log extraction tool that generates compilation databases for Clang tooling by intercepting compiler calls during the build process. It helps developers analyze and work with C/C++ codebases by capturing build commands and their parameters.

Contributors

668

Organizations

202

Software value

$494K

Boost Math Library

Super-project for modularized Boost

Contributors

448

Organizations

91

Software value

$35M

pkgconf

pkgconf is a program and library that provides compiler and linker configuration for development frameworks. It helps build systems determine the proper flags and library paths to compile and link software that uses pkg-config-style metadata files.

Contributors

323

Organizations

138

Software value

$402K

Swift Package Manager Rules for Bazel

A set of Bazel rules that enable integration with Swift Package Manager dependencies, allowing Bazel projects to use Swift packages as external dependencies while maintaining Bazel's build system benefits

Contributors

100

Organizations

30

Software value

$1.4M

AOSP-Mirror Build Platform

A Linux Foundation project that provides a mirrored repository and build environment for Android Open Source Project (AOSP), enabling developers to efficiently access, compile, and customize Android source code.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

CMake

Mirror of CMake upstream repository

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

GNU Autoconf Archive

A mirror of the GNU Autoconf Archive, a collection of more than 500 macros for GNU Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly supporters of the cause from all over the Internet.

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

GTK for Windows

GTK stack for Windows

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

XcodeGen

A Swift command line tool for generating your Xcode project

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.

prebuildify

Build tool and bindings loader for node-gyp that supports prebuilds

This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
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