We performed a comparison between GNU Make and TeamCity based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."GNU Make is such an essential tool that it is almost impossible to imagine working without it. Not having it, developers would probably have to resort to doing everything manually or via shell scripts."
"Makefiles are extremely easy to work with using any preferred editor. GNU Make can be run directly from the terminal, not requiring any time wasted on clicking."
"Full-featured syntax allows building strategies as simple or as complex as one wishes, and declarative approach fits the task really well. Wide adoption also means that everybody knows what GNU Make is and how to use it."
"Setup is extremely straightforward."
"I have not encountered any scalability issues with GNU Make. It is as scalable as the project's structure is, and then some."
"VCS Trigger: Provides excellent source control support."
"TeamCity is a very user-friendly tool."
"Time to deployment has been reduced in situations where we want to deploy to production or deploy breaking changes."
"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."
"I have not yet implemented the remote build feature, but this will be a big plus. We want to be able to build legacy products on a build agent without developers needing to have obsolete tool sets installed on their local PC."
"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."
"It's easy to move to a new release because of templates and meta-runners, and agent pooling."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its easy configuration. It also has multiple plugins that can be used especially for building .net applications."
"GNU Make requires using the Tab symbol as the first symbol of command line for execution. In some text editors this can be problematic, as they automatically insert spaces instead of tabs."
"Vanilla GNU Make does not support any kind of colored output. A wrapper named colormake exists to work around this, but native (opt-in) support would be welcome."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. Upgrading major versions can often cause some pain."
"I need some more graphical design."
"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."
"We've called TeamCity tech support. Unfortunately, all their tech support is based in Europe, so we end up with such a big time crunch that I now need to have one person in the US."
"If TeamCity could create more out of the box solutions to make it more user friendly and create more use cases, that would be ideal."
"REST API support lacks many features in customization of builds, jobs, and settings."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. New users don't find it easy to navigate. The need some level of training to understand the ins and the outs."
"Integrating with certain technologies posed challenges related to time and required support from the respective technology teams to ensure smooth integration with TeamCity."
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GNU Make is ranked 25th in Build Automation while TeamCity is ranked 6th in Build Automation with 25 reviews. GNU Make is rated 8.2, while TeamCity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GNU Make writes "Full-featured syntax allows building strategies as simple or as complex as needed". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamCity writes "Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans". GNU Make is most compared with Jenkins and Bazel, whereas TeamCity is most compared with GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, Harness and GitHub Actions. See our GNU Make vs. TeamCity report.
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