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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:14:11+00:00

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good, fast, make tool? SCons? KJam? Something

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Does anyone have any recommendations for a good, fast, make tool? SCons? KJam? Something else?

Cross platform tools would also be acceptable.

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    • GNU make is fast, but the native Windows-port is not very polished; there are a lot of pitfal regarding things like which shell is used to execute your commands. (Search for ‘MS-DOS’ in the GNU make manual.)
    • SCons works very well on Windows. SCons had (last time I looked) some serious performance issues on large projects (thousands of files and upwards), but that was a couple of years ago.
    • CMake is an excellent tool if you want to work in Visual Studio but still stay crossplatform and allow other development tools on other platform. Can also generate makefiles for windows, so you’re not bound to Visual Studio.
    • Whatever you may think of Ant, it is not a replacement for Make. That’s like saying that a SUV is a replacement for a Formula 1 car. They are entirely different beasts. Ant is good for some things, and make for others.
    • There is a relatively new tool called premake which you may want to investigate. It looked promisiing when I looked, but I haven’t checked it out in any detail.
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