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Buck2 – fast build system

Buck2 is a build tool.

This build system encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.

Buck2 is free and open source software.

Key Features

  • Speed up your builds. Buck builds independent artifacts in parallel to take advantage of multiple cores on your machine. Further, it reduces incremental build times by keeping track of unchanged modules so that the minimal set of modules is rebuilt.
  • Add reproducibility to your builds. Buck only uses the declared inputs, which means everybody gets the same results.
  • Get correct incremental builds. Buck looks at the contents of your inputs, not their timestamps to figure out what needs to be built. As a result, incremental builds should always be correct, so there’s no need to perform a clean build.
  • Understand your dependencies. With buck query, you can better understand your dependencies and what is required to build your product.
  • Integrate with your IDE. With buck project, your project can be better understood by your IDE, making you and your team more productive.

Website: buck2.build
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Facebook
License: Apache License 2.0

Buck is written in Java. Learn Java with our recommended free books and free tutorials.


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