LinBuild: A simple build system for C/C++ Jussi Lind <jussi.lind@iki.fi>

The LinBuild Project Page at  gives you access to the releases, source codes (SVN), and more.

:: Introduction ::

LinBuild is a Python-based, simple and user-friendly build system for C/C++ on Linux/Unix. It's intended to be distributed with your project, so there's no need to get it installed on the system.

LinBuild adopts some concepts from Waf and CMake and it is simply a single script that depends only on Python. LinBuild replaces GNU Make and makes it really easy to configure, build & install a C/C++ project.

LinBuild features e.g. automatic build dependency scanning of source files, multi-threaded build process and built-in supports for Qt4 and pkg-config.

:: Screenshots of recent versions ::

:: Features in a nutshell ::

• Python-based build system / framework targeted for GNU gcc/g++
• Linbuild is a single redistributable Python script / executable that can be copied straightly into your project directory
• Currently supported Python versions: (2.3 >= Python < 3.0)
• Completely replaces Make (and qmake)
• Easy to write configure, build & install scripts in Python (Basic functionality doesn't actually require extensive Python skills)
• Supports sub-configures & sub-builds
• Automatic build dependency scanning
• Automatically multi-threaded build process
• Builds executables, shared libraries and static libraries
• A built-in support for pkg-config
• A built-in support for Qt4

:: Releases ::

LinBuild-1.0.3 (25-Apr-2009) Download LinBuild executable + examples!

• Automatic check for Python version added
• Crash bug in Qt4 tool fixed
• Bug in delFile fixed (it didn't remove file without a full path)
• Fixed a bug: compiler warnings were not shown