FASTBuild is a high performance build system for Linux, macOS and Windows. It focuses on reducing compile times for both full builds and local development.
The software supports distributed compilation and object caching, and can work with a wide range of compilers and target architectures.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Efficient parallel compilation.
- Distributed compilation using spare processing capacity on networked machines.
- Local and network object caching.
- Fast incremental and no-op builds.
- Unity and Blob builds with iteration enhancements.
- Build multiple platforms and targets simultaneously.
- Supports GCC, Clang, MSVC, NVCC, Green Hills, CodeWarrior and other compilers.
- Runs as a small, self-contained executable with no external dependencies.
- Uses a human-readable configuration language.
- Built-in test execution, build statistics and progress reporting.
- Visual Studio and Xcode project generation.
Website: github.com/fastbuild/fastbuild
Support:
Developer: Franta Fulin
License: Zlib
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