NANT is generally used in building a tool for building C # and VB.NET systems. But use in C , it is less.
The BOOST library is a quasi-standard library of C , with many industrial intensity libraries such as Graph libraries.
There is a JAM build tool in Boost Luti, I think this tool is not as easy as learning, and scalability is not as good as the NANT library. For example, a system is a system written in programming languages such as C #, C , VB.NET. Then the JAM tool shows the defect. But Nant is ok.
The Boost library is a library that tests the C compiler, which is difficult to compile in VC6.0. Now Microsoft provides an optimized compiler tool - Microsoft Visual C Toolkit 2003, using it to compile the Boost library.