BSDBuild uses POSIX-compliant Makefiles and generates Bourne configure scripts. BSDBuild has been tested on the following operating systems:

• FreeBSD (BSD make, GNU make)
• Irix 6.5 (GNU make)
• Linux (GNU make)
• MacOS X
• NetBSD (BSD make, GNU make)
• OpenBSD (BSD make, GNU make)
• Windows/MSYS (GNU make)
• Windows/Cygwin (GNU make)