Make

Make Links

• QEF Software construction system from Cleanscape Software International. Allegedly "operates consistently across UNIX and Windows NT platforms", trial downloads for Sun and Solaris.
  
• Recursive Make Considered Harmful Peter Miller's paper on the build process for large UNIX projects.
  
• Cons Make replacement, implemented in Perl (GPL).
  
• Dmake Rewrite of Unix Make that is also portable to Windows NT and DOS. Free with source code. WTI Corp.
  
• Visual Build Visual build management tool for Windows developers. It functions like a make with a GUI. (Kinook Software)
  
• Cook 2.11 Tool for constructing and maintaining referential integrity between files. Peter Miller's replacement for make. Free, Unix source.
  
• GNU Make Manual/documentation for the GNU version of make; gmake.
  
• Imake-Related Software and Documentation Imake FAQ, software accompanying the O'Reilly "Software Portability with imake" book, notes on use with Motif and X11, imake-related utilities source code.
  
• Nmake Product Builder Bell Labs improvement on make(1). "Key features include distributed and parallel execution, viewpathing, automatic dependency generation, and a powerful rule language." Various Unix systems, requires license.
  
• Java Makefile A simple, but yet complete gnu make + shell script setup for Java. Includes dependency handling and support for building class files, JAR archives, JNI interfaces, RMI stub and skeletons, Javadoc documentation.
  
• Jam - Make(1) Redux Jam/MR, a make replacement priding itself on being simple, compact, and portable. By Perforce Software. Free download with source code.
  
• Opus Software Opus Make seller. Make manual, tutorial, reference cards.
  
• OpenMake Catalyst Systems Corporation (Computer Associates) product for Win NT/95 AIX and Solaris. Includes trial download and white paper.
  
• Odin (U Colorado FTP site) Geofrey Clemm's "simpler, more reliable, and more powerful replacement for Make", doesn't have a Web page, but here is one of several FTP sites it is available from.