Along with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 comes a few changes to Visual C++ in regards to build tools as well as the addition of experimental tools that the VS team has been emphasizing in a series of ...

The open source project Bazel has emerged in recent years as one of the best build systems for today’s highly complex, polyglot codebases and is inherently designed to overcome the issues being ...

Java has more approachable build tools like Ant and Maven, while C++’s Make and NMake are considered less so. C++ splits source into header and implementation files. It requires a big monitor to ...

Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++. The ...

The company is also announcing a new open source project, Hermetic FetchContent, which brings even more modern build system features to the C and C++ developers.All of these new products and ...