G2 Vendor Directory

CMake vs. SCons

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricCMake

by Kitware

SCons

by SCons Foundation

Overall rating4.34.1
Review count1717
Ease of use7.18.6
Ease of setup8.68.1
Quality of support7.67.3
Meets requirements8.78.8
NPS52.94117641.176471
Small Business35.3%17.6%
Mid-Market23.5%41.2%
Enterprise41.2%41.2%
Total page views9431
Total LLM citations13314

CMake

CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software. CMake is used to control the software compilation process using simple platform and compiler independent configuration files. CMake generates native makefiles and workspaces that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice.

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    SCons

    SCons is an Open Source software construction tool-that is, a next-generation build tool.

    Pros