# Install swift-section with Homebrew

CLI tool for parsing mach-o files to obtain Swift information. Version 0.14.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-26.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:swift-section
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install swift-section
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:swift-section
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/swift-section>
- **Version:** 0.14.0
- **Source summary:** CLI tool for parsing mach-o files to obtain Swift information
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/MachOSwiftSection>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/MachOSwiftSection>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/MachOSwiftSection/archive/refs/tags/0.14.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-26T12:33:35Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- swift-section (cli)
- swift-section (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_sequoia, arm64_tahoe

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 0.14.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-07-26
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/MachOSwiftSection
- Upstream latest detected: 0.14.0 (current)
## Project history and usage

MachOSwiftSection is a Swift library and `swift-section` CLI for inspecting Swift metadata in Mach-O files, including dumping Swift sections and generating Swift interface-like output from binaries.

### Project history

The public repository was created in 2025. Its README states that the library was developed as an extension of MachOKit and focuses on parsing Swift information from Mach-O files, including types, protocols, conformances, runtime metadata inspection, and interface generation.

### Adoption history

The README documents installation through GitHub Releases, Homebrew, and source builds, placing the command-line tool in both release-artifact and package-manager workflows. Homebrew lists the formula as `swift-section` for macOS bottles.

### How it is used

Users run `swift-section dump` to inspect Swift information in Mach-O files or dyld shared caches, and `swift-section interface` to generate Swift interface output. The README also documents SwiftPM library products such as MachOSwiftSection, SwiftInspection, SwiftDump, SwiftInterface, and TypeIndexing.

### Why package nerds care

The package is relevant to Swift and macOS tooling specialists because it packages low-level Mach-O and Swift ABI inspection as both a SwiftPM library and a Homebrew-installable CLI. That combination makes binary reverse-engineering workflows scriptable and reproducible from the package manager.

### Timeline

- 2025: Public GitHub repository created.
- Current docs: README describes the project as an extension of MachOKit.
- Current docs: CLI installation documented through GitHub Releases, Homebrew, and source builds.

### Related projects

- The README names MachOKit as the base project and documents related products including SwiftInspection, SwiftDump, SwiftInterface, and TypeIndexing.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/MachOSwiftSection>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/swift-section.json>
- <https://github.com/MxIris-Reverse-Engineering/MachOSwiftSection#readme>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** swift-section
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Requirements:** macos, xcode
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/swift-section.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/swift-section.yml)


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