Jam

by Perforce

software build tool that makes building simple things simple

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What is it all about?

Jam is a software build tool that makes building simple things simple and building complicated things manageable. It has been freely available as C source for many years from the Perforce Workshop and is widely used to build commercial and academic software. Jam is a very good solution for conventional C/C++ compile-and-link builds. Because Jam understands C/C++ dependencies, there is no need to declare header or object files.

Key Features

* Unintrusive and clean - Jam is small, it has negligible CPU overhead, and it doesn't create or leave behind temporary files. * Scalable - Jam is able to build large projects spread across many directories in a single pass and can manage and distribute build steps to multiple processors on one or more networked machines. * Highly portable - Jam runs on UNIX, VMS, NT, OS/2, Mac OS X, and Mac MPW. Most Jamfiles (like the sample above) are also portable. * Multiplatform - Platform independent rules and platform specific actions can be defined separately from dependency rules. * Customizable - Developers can enhance/extend Jam by creating user defined rules to utilize other built-in directives. * Language - Jam includes flow-control statments, variables, and a few other features of general purpose languages. * Free - Jam is free and can be incorporated into commercial products without licensing restrictions.