Build systems ​

Vite, Nx, Turborepo & unplugin are nice.

Links ​

• Please - High-performance extensible build system for reproducible builds. (Web)
• sbt - Build tool for Scala, Java, and more. (Tutorial)
• Tundra - Code build system that tries to be accurate and fast for incremental builds.
• gg - The Stanford Builder.
• mmake - Small program which wraps make to provide additional functionality, such as user-friendly help output, remote includes, and eventually more. It otherwise acts as a pass-through to standard make.
• Build Systems a la Carte - Provides an executable framework for developing and comparing build systems, viewing them as related points in landscape rather than as isolated phenomena. (Paper)
• checkmake - Experimental linter/analyzer for Makefiles.
• CMake - Build, test and package software. (Code)
• Effective Modern CMake
• CMake Scripts - Selection of useful scripts for use in CMake projects.
• BLT - Streamlined CMake-based foundation for Building, Linking and Testing large-scale high performance computing (HPC) applications.
• zld - Faster version of Apple's linker.
• Automation and Make
• Meson - Project to create the best possible next-generation build system. (Article) (HN) (Docs) (Web)
• mbt - Most flexible build orchestration tool for monorepo.
• Earthly - Run all your builds containerized. (Web) (HN)
• Synchronicity - Distributed build system providing cryptographic proofs-of-reproducibility via Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus.
• Ninja - Small build system with a focus on speed. (ninja: a simple way to do builds) (Lobsters) (HN)
• The Success and Failure of Ninja (2020) (HN)
• Samurai - Ninja-compatible build tool written in C99 with a focus on simplicity, speed, and portability. (HN)
• Apple’s Linker & Deterministic Builds (2020)
• redo - Smaller, easier, more powerful, and more reliable than make. An implementation of djb's redo. (Docs) (HN)
• my love letter to redo (2020) (Lobsters)
• Awesome CMake
• Build - Tool that generates a compilation database for clang tooling.
• How to list all the targets on a Makefile (2020) (HN)
• You don’t need reproducible builds (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
• Strategies for Binary Relocation In Functional Build Systems (2020) (Lobsters)
• Reproducible Telegram Builds for iOS and Android
• Faster Builds with Code Signing Hacks (2020)
• Allowing CMake functions to return(value) (2020)
• The quest to the perfect Makefile (2018)
• Build systems with Andrey Mokhov (2020)
• Amazon's Build System (HN)
• Pondering Amazon's Manyrepo Build System (2020) (Lobsters)
• Xmake - Cross-platform build utility based on Lua. (Docs) (GitHub) (Xmake and Cplusplus Package Management) (HN)
• Merkle trees and build systems
• Introduction to Makefiles (2020) (HN)
• engage - Incremental build tool with automatic dependency tracking.
• remake - Enhanced GNU Make - tracing, error reporting, debugging, profiling and more.
• Goma - Distributed compiler service for open-source project such as Chromium and Android. It's some kind of replacement of distcc+ccache.
• musl-cross-make - Fast, simple, but advanced makefile-based approach for producing musl-targeting cross compilers.
• Reducing flaky builds by 18x (2020)
• Reproducible Builds
• Tup - File-based build system. It takes as input a list of file changes and a directed acyclic graph (DAG). (Web) (Lobsters)
• The Problem with Gradle (2021) (HN)
• distcc - Distributed builds for C, C++ and Objective C.
• CMake Examples (Web)
• ninja-rs - Educational implementation of the ninja build system, based on ideas from the Build Systems a la Carte paper.
• Cutting Build Time in Half with Docker’s Buildx Kubernetes Driver (2021)
• Persistent Storage and Fast Remote Builds (2021)
• Robo - Simple YAML-based task runner written in Go.
• Buck - Fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages. (Web) (The future of Buck)
• Mage is My Favorite Make (2021) (Lobsters)
• Kres - Tool to automate generation of build instructions based on project structure.
• You can handle The Diamond with CMake (2021) (HN)
• Turborepo - Blazing fast monorepo build system. (GitHub) (Turbo v0.4.0) (Tweet) (Code) (First look at Turborepo (Demo and Q&A with Jared Palmer)) (Turborepo Boiler Plate) (Article) (Tweet) (turborepo-remote-cache server) (1.2 release) (HN) (Refactor an Existing Monorepo to Turborepo)
• OMake - Build system designed for scalability and portability. (Code)
• Reproducible Builds: Increasing the Integrity of Software Supply Chains (2021)
• Comparing the New Generation of Build Tools (2021)
• Blade Build System - Easy-to-use, fast and modern build system for trunk based development in large scale monorepo codebase.
• Escaping AutoHell: A Vision for Automated Analysis and Migration of Autotools Build Systems (2016)
• Using CMake and Managing Dependencies (2021) (HN)
• Cake - Thin wrapper around make that runs all targets inside a development Docker/Podman container. (HN)
• Why We Need Build Systems (2021) (Lobsters)
• Compilation Database Generator - Tool for generating Clang's JSON Compilation Database files for make-based build systems.
• hlb - Developer-first language to build and test any software efficiently.
• Gradle - Build tool with a focus on build automation and support for multi-language development. (Web)
• Using Earthly To Build Replay
• CMake Part 1 - The Dark Arts (2021)
• unplugin - Unified plugin system for Vite, Rollup, and Webpack.
• Build Server Protocol - Protocol for IDEs and build tools to communicate about compile, run, test, debug and more. (Web)
• Reflecting on the Shake Build System (2021)
• Python as a build tool (2021) (Lobsters)
• How to Find Packages With CMake: The Basics (2020)
• Practical Makefiles, by example (2020)
• Learning CMake - Simple CMake tutorial project which contains some different scenarios.
• Forge - General, modular build system.
• Ekam - Build system which automatically figures out what to build and how to build it purely based on the source code.
• Button - Low-level back end build system.
• Nx - Smart, Extensible Build Framework. (Code) (Example) (Console) (Nx Conf Lite 2022)
• Premake - Powerfully simple build configuration. (Web) (Tweet)
• Pants - Fast, scalable, user-friendly build system for codebases of all sizes. It's currently focused on Python and Shell. (Web)
• Biomake - make-like utility for managing builds (or analysis workflows) involving multiple dependent files.
• Leeway - Heavily caching build system for Go, Yarn and Docker projects.
• scikit-build - Improved build system generator for CPython C/C++/Fortran/Cython extensions.
• Bob - Build system, a task runner as well as tooling for Git Multi-repos, all bundled into a single binary.
• My collection of CMake modules
• buildevents - Helper to generate Honeycomb traces from CI builds.
• Turtle - Ninja build system clone in Rust.
• Rattle - Forward build system with speculation and caching.
• Understanding Gradle – Video Series (Code)
• Monorepo Explained (Code) (HN)
• Reproducible Builds in January 2022 (HN)
• GitBOM - Automatic and Verifiable Artifact Resolution. (Web Code)
• n2 - Ninja compatible build system.
• Three Pillars of Reproducible Builds (2022) (HN)
• Turborepo Demo (Remote Caching & Deploying to Vercel) (2022)
• Monorepos done right (HN)
• How does Google keep build times low? (2021)
• Tech Notes: n2: revisiting Ninja (2022)
• Lerna-Lite - Super light version of the original Lerna.
• EasyBuild - Software build and installation framework that allows you to manage (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way. (Code) (EasyBuild Configs)
• Advantages of Monorepos (HN)
• Bash Cache Buildkite Plugin - Caching plugin that can be invoked from your build script.
• BuildCache - Advanced compiler accelerator that caches and reuses build results to avoid unnecessary re-compilations, and thereby speeding up the build process.
• Improve Build Times in Less Time (2022)
• wharf - Protocol for incrementally transferring software builds over the network using minimal time/bandwidth. (Lobsters)
• e3 - Python framework to ease the development of portable automated build systems (compilation, dependencies management, binary code packaging, and automated testing).
• Turbocache - Simple remote cache server for Turborepo. (Code)
• lbuild - Generic, modular code generator in Python 3.
• rock - Build system inspired by Build systems à la carte.
• Zap - Simple, fast, and correct build system for any programming language, that uses Deno and is built in Rust.
• Remembering Buildtool (2022)
• Dirsh - Consistent hashing of directories, respects your gitignore.
• blight - Framework for instrumenting build tools.
• Improve Build Times in Less Time by Zac Sweers (2022) (Slides)
• drone-cache - Drone plugin for caching current workspace files between builds to reduce your build times.
• Beast - Build system built for speed and power. (HN)
• Vercel Build Output API: Infrastructure-as-Filesystem (2022) (HN)
• Speeding up PostHog builds with Depot (2022)
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles (2022) (HN)
• Knit - Build tool inspired by Make and Plan9 mk.
• Tejolote - Highly configurable build executor and observer designed to generate signed SLSA provenance attestations about build runs.
• Vercel Remote Cache SDK - Feature of advanced build tools like Turborepo, Bazel, and Buck to cache compiled computations and code artifacts in the cloud.
• Shake - Tool for writing build systems - an alternative to make, Scons, Ant etc. (Docs)
• How Turbo bundler for web works (2022)
• Introducing Turbopack: the Turbo-charged bundler (2022)
• Fast builds, secure builds. Choose two. (2022)
• Buildomat - Manages the provisioning of ephemeral UNIX systems (e.g., instances in AWS EC2) on which to run software builds.
• sold - Commercial version of the mold linker. (Lobsters)
• Buck2 - Build system, successor to Buck. (Docs) (HN) (Lobsters)
• How I learned to love build systems (2021)
• Web Build Tools Compare
• Turbo Racer - High-performance distributed remote cache for Turborepo.
• Moon - Build system and repo management tool for the web ecosystem, written in Rust. (Web) (HN)
• Farm - Super fast web build tool written in Rust.
• How to speed up your next build 5-20x with Firebuild? (2023)
• Firebuild - Automatic build accelerator.
• Knit: making a better Make (2023) (Lobsters)
• Gradle still sucks (2023) (HN)
• Buck2 Build System Team AMA (2023)
• Zim - Caching build system for teams using monorepos.
• repro-env - Dependency lockfiles for reproducible build environments.