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This is a build system for C/C++ projects.
FFBuild For Windows helps create builds from the components/modules already developed. For large software projects creating a build is a fairly complex task. Trying to do this manually could be error prone. Thus, build automation is often resorted to. Build automation is about scripting or automating a wide variety of tasks that software developers do in their day-to-day activities. These typically involve things like compiling computer source code into binary code, packaging the binary code, running automatic testing to test the integrity of the build, deploying to production systems and creating of documents such as release notes, etc. The “make” scripting language was in use to make things easier. It let you build a script that makes calls to get the required compile and link tasks done. GNU Make had additionally "makedepend". This allowed some source code dependency management as well as incremental build processing. Build processes today are more complex and calls for tools like this one under discussion.
Projects that work on daily builds or the nightly builds to develop software faster, could use this tool to help rapid development of prototypes easily. Build System for C/C++ projects builds your products in one step. This tool is likely to work faster as this tool is written in native C++ and should work faster in this environment. This tool makes it easy to manage the build process as all the target-dependent information is collected in centralized locations (in sources.ffb and ffbuild.xml). This is a good product.
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