What Is Build Automation?

The build system is an automated tool used to generate targets that users can use from source code. Targets can include libraries, executables, or generated scripts, and so on. Commonly used build systems include GNU Make, GNU autotools, CMake, Apache Ant (mainly used in JAVA). In addition, all integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Qt Creator, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Eclipse have added their own build system configuration tools to the languages they support. Usually the build system in the IDE is just the front end of console-based build systems (such as Autotool and CMake).

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The build system is an automated tool used to generate targets that users can use from source code. Targets can include libraries, executables, or generated scripts, and so on. Commonly used build systems include GNU Make, GNU autotools, CMake, Apache Ant (mainly used in JAVA). In addition, all integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Qt Creator, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Eclipse have added their own build system configuration tools to the languages they support. Usually the build system in the IDE is just the front end of console-based build systems (such as Autotool and CMake).