Rscons

Rscons (https://github.com/holtrop/rscons) is an open-source build system for developers. It supports the following features:

• multi-threaded job execution
• auto-configuration
• built-in builders for several common operations
• out-of-the-box support for C, C++, and D languages
• extensibility for other languages or custom builders
• compatible with Windows, Linux, OS X, and FreeBSD
• colorized output with build progress
• build hooks
• user-defined tasks with dependencies and custom parameters
• build variants

At its core, Rscons is mainly an engine to:

• determine the proper order to perform build steps,
• determine whether each build target is up to date or in need of rebuild, and
• schedule those build steps across multiple threads as efficiently as possible.

Along the way, Rscons provides a concise syntax for specifying common types of build steps, but also provides an extensible framework for performing custom build operations as well.

Rscons takes inspiration from:

• SCons
• waf
• rake
• CMake
• Autoconf

Rscons is written in Ruby. The only requirement to run Rscons is that the system has a Ruby interpreter installed.

See https://holtrop.github.io/rscons/index.html for User Guide and Installation instructions.