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SCons vs Premake: catalog facts
SCons	Premake
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the BSD 3-Clause licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Build files are Python scripts Automatic dependency scanning for C, C++ and Fortran	One script generates project files for many toolsets Readable Lua-based syntax
Requires Python to run Less common than CMake or Make in many projects	Generates project files rather than building directly Smaller ecosystem than CMake
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: BSD-3-Clause
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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