Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefiles compliant with the GNU Coding Standards.

GNU autoconf is a package for generating configure scripts. These scripts are present in a large number of free software packages and are used to detect system features at compilation time. Autoconf is mostly needed by people producing packages that run on a wide variety of platforms--particularly UNIX-a-likes.

NU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared and static libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. Libtool supports building static libraries on all platforms.

Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

A graphical KDE based frontend for compiling.

A survey of bug tracking, scheduling, metrics, trouble-ticketing, help-desk, call-, and project-management tools for Linux

The makeheaders program is a simple utility that will automatically generate all the ``.h'' files for large programming project based on information gleaned from the ``.c'' or ``.cpp'' source files. It operates by scanning the C and/or C++ source code, extracting appropriate macros, structure and subroutine declarations and writing this declarations, in the correct order, into the generated header files.