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As i've said in another comment, theres also GN, the build system used for Chrome.

It's bazel-like, in C++, so you can have a binary tool, and it outputs ninja build files.

I'm not saying whether it's good or bad but for completeness one should probably look at MSBuild.

There's a pretty interesting compiler wrapper called "fastbuild" that really lives up to its name.

C/C++ build environments are fascinating to me because there are so many. They solve this swarm of overlapping problems in many different ways.