What build tool(s) do people use for their applications?

• NAnt2

  2 8 6.6 C#

  NAnt2 is a free .NET build tool, updated and enhanced from original NAnt project https://github.com/nant/nant. Easy to use even by non-programmers to automate their daily tasks.

  

NAnt is a capable system (in some ways better than MSBuild) and it's still sort of alive in the form of NAnt2 but yes, very old school.

• FAKE

  4 1,275 5.8 F#

  FAKE - F# Make

  

Cake and Fake are both quite popular in the OSS world.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• NUKE

  28 2,531 8.9 C#

  🏗 The AKEless Build System for C#/.NET (by nuke-build)

  

I’d say NUKE is quite popular too. Over 1k stars :P

• Psake

  5 1,536 0.0 PowerShell

  A build automation tool written in PowerShell

  

I've used psake (powershell+make) https://github.com/psake/psake - the main thing that attracted me to this was that it wasn't an XML based system (Nant/MSbuild), and it handled task prerequisites very nicely. While some devs find powershell a bit of a pain to learn, they generally become useful very quickly, and I think it's useful to be able to do some level of powershelling anyway.

Suggest a related project