# bender mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für bender in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:bender
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install bender
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#bender
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/be/bender/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:bender
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.32.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Dependency management tool for hardware projects
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/pulp-platform/bender>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/pulp-platform/bender>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-07T15:31:59Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- bender (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.32.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Bender is PULP Platform's dependency manager for hardware design projects. It manages HDL package dependencies from Git repositories and local paths, resolves compatible versions, writes a `Bender.lock`, and emits ordered source sets for downstream EDA tools.

### Projektgeschichte

The official GitHub repository was created in May 2018 and is maintained by the PULP Platform at ETH Zurich and the University of Bologna. The README positions Bender as a tool that fits existing hardware flows instead of imposing a registry, directory layout, or simulator.

By the 0.24.0 release in January 2022, Bender had an established public release stream; releases continued through the 0.32.0 release in June 2026. The project is written and distributed as a developer CLI with crates.io, Homebrew, and Nix packaging signals.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Bender's adoption sits in the open hardware and HDL ecosystem rather than general software packaging. It is used to pin Git-based IP dependencies, handle local overrides, and generate scripts for tools such as QuestaSim, VCS, Vivado, and Verilator.

The PULP Platform affiliation gives it a notable institutional context: it serves the kind of multi-repository hardware IP workflow common in research and silicon-development groups.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A typical workflow is to create or edit `Bender.yml`, run `bender update` to resolve dependencies and write `Bender.lock`, optionally run `bender checkout`, and generate simulator or synthesis tool inputs with `bender script`.

`Bender.local` is used for local dependency overrides when developing hardware IP in place. This makes Bender closer to Cargo or Bundler in spirit than to a simulator wrapper, but specialized for HDL source ordering and EDA tool integration.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Bender is package-nerd significant because hardware projects often have dependency problems that look like software package management but with HDL-specific source ordering, include directories, defines, and simulator targets. Bender packages those concerns into a reproducible CLI.

It is also an example of package management without a central registry: dependencies can come from Git tags, revisions, or local paths, and reproducibility is carried by the lockfile.

### Zeitleiste

- 2018: GitHub repository created.
- 2022: v0.24.0 release published.
- 2024: v0.28.0 release published.
- 2025: v0.29.0 release published.
- 2026: v0.32.0 release published.

### Related projects

- The PULP Platform maintains Bender and uses it in the open hardware ecosystem.
- QuestaSim, VCS, Vivado, and Verilator are documented downstream tool targets.
- Cargo/crates.io is part of the distribution story for the Rust-based CLI.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/pulp-platform/bender>
- <https://github.com/pulp-platform/bender/releases>
- <https://pulp-platform.github.io/bender/>
- source_facts.package-manager
- source_facts.repo


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ./Bender.yml, ./Bender.local
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - bender: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/be/bender/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph