To emphasize the collective response to the original, now pointlessly duplicated question, no there is not really any alternative to hoop rolling.

There there wouldn't have been one historically, either. The way you manufacture a uniform steel strip is by rolling to begin with; rolling into a hoop rather than flat is just a carefully calibrated defect - if anything, it's rolling a flat strip that took time to perfect.

For a bike:


For a monowheel (rim rolling is the first few seconds after intro):