# cargo-binutils mit Homebrew, apt, Nix, pacman, dnf installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:cargo-binutils
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cargo-binutils
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install cargo-binutils
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: cargo-binutils from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#cargo-binutils
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S cargo-binutils
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: cargo-binutils from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install rust-ar+default-devel
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-ar+default-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:cargo-binutils
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Cargo subcommands to invoke the LLVM tools shipped with the Rust toolchain
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/rust-embedded/cargo-binutils>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/rust-embedded/cargo-binutils>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- cargo-cov (Alias)
- cargo-nm (Alias)
- cargo-objcopy (Alias)
- cargo-objdump (Alias)
- cargo-profdata (Alias)
- cargo-readobj (Alias)
- cargo-size (Alias)
- cargo-strip (Alias)
- rust-ar (Alias)
- rust-as (Alias)
- rust-cov (Alias)
- rust-ld (Alias)
- rust-lld (Alias)
- rust-nm (Alias)
- rust-objcopy (Alias)
- rust-objdump (Alias)
- rust-profdata (Alias)
- rust-readobj (Alias)
- rust-size (Alias)
- rust-strip (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.4.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

cargo-binutils is a Cargo subcommand suite that makes the LLVM binary-inspection tools shipped in Rust toolchains feel like native Cargo workflows. It provides rust-* proxies for LLVM tools and cargo-* commands that can build a Rust target and then inspect the resulting artifact.

### Projektgeschichte

The crate appeared on crates.io in June 2018 as a proxy for llvm-nm, llvm-objdump, llvm-size, and related tools. Early crate metadata pointed at Jorge Aparicio's japaric/cargo-binutils repository, and the project later settled under the rust-embedded organization, where the README says it is maintained by the Embedded Working Group Tools team while also noting that it is not an official Rust project.

Its scope grew from a small set of cargo-nm, cargo-objcopy, cargo-objdump, cargo-profdata, and cargo-size commands into a broader wrapper set that also includes rust-* command proxies such as rust-objcopy, rust-size, rust-readobj, rust-strip, rust-lld, and rust-cov. The current README frames the tool as sugar over LLVM tools from rustup's llvm-tools component.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

cargo-binutils became a standard convenience tool in embedded Rust because it connects Cargo builds with artifact inspection commands that embedded developers already need for symbol tables, section sizes, disassembly, and binary conversion. Its maintenance home in rust-embedded and its packaging across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Nix, pacman, and Fedora-style package names reflect that it escaped the purely crates.io audience.

Crates.io reports more than 2.7 million total downloads and the current crate metadata classifies it under command-line utilities and development tools. That adoption is reinforced by rustup's llvm-tools component: cargo-binutils does not ship its own LLVM, it makes the toolchain-provided LLVM tools easier to call.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A typical installation is `cargo install cargo-binutils` followed by `rustup component add llvm-tools`. Users then run commands such as `cargo size --release`, `cargo objdump --release -- --disassemble`, `cargo nm --release`, or the lower-level `rust-size` and `rust-objdump` proxies.

The important usage pattern is build-and-inspect: cargo-binutils can accept familiar Cargo selectors such as `--bin`, `--example`, `--lib`, `--target`, and `--release`, build the requested target, and pass the generated artifact path to the LLVM tool.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package nerds, cargo-binutils is interesting because it packages compiler-toolchain internals as stable-feeling Cargo subcommands without vendoring the underlying tools. It sits at the boundary between rustup components, LLVM command naming, Cargo metadata, and distribution packaging.

It is especially notable in embedded packaging culture: size reports, symbol listings, object copying, and disassembly are routine release tasks for firmware, and cargo-binutils made those tasks reproducible from a Rust package-manager workflow.

### Zeitleiste

- 2018-04-06: Current rust-embedded/cargo-binutils GitHub repository was created.
- 2018-06-29: cargo-binutils 0.1.0 was published on crates.io with cargo-nm, cargo-objcopy, cargo-objdump, cargo-profdata, and cargo-size binaries.
- 2018-12-19: The 0.1.6 crate metadata still referenced the earlier japaric/cargo-binutils repository.
- 2020: The 0.2 and 0.3 lines expanded the proxy set with more rust-* and cargo-* LLVM tools.
- 2025-08-26: Version 0.4.0 was published, listing the broader command set including cargo-cov, cargo-readobj, cargo-strip, rust-lld, and rust-as.

### Related projects

- rustup's llvm-tools component supplies the LLVM binaries that cargo-binutils invokes.
- LLVM binutils such as llvm-nm, llvm-objdump, llvm-objcopy, llvm-size, llvm-readobj, and llvm-strip are the underlying tools exposed by the package.
- The rust-embedded working group ecosystem is the cultural home for many of the workflows cargo-binutils targets.

### Quellen

- GitHub repository API metadata: https://api.github.com/repos/rust-embedded/cargo-binutils
- Official README: https://github.com/rust-embedded/cargo-binutils#readme
- Package-manager adoption from source_facts.package-manager.
- crates.io API metadata and versions: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/cargo-binutils


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - cargo-binutils - 0.3.6-2+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: cargo-binutils from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Proxy for LLVM tools like llvm-nm, llvm-objdump and llvm-size | https://github.com/rust-embedded/cargo-binutils/
- Nix - cargo-binutils: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ca/cargo-binutils/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - cargo-binutils - 0.3.5-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: cargo-binutils from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Proxy for LLVM tools like llvm-nm, llvm-objdump and llvm-size
- pacman - cargo-binutils - 0.4.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: cargo-binutils from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Cargo subcommands to invoke the LLVM tools shipped with the Rust toolchain | https://github.com/rust-embedded/cargo-binutils
- Debian apt - librust-ar-dev - 0.9.0-1+b2: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: librust-ar-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Encoding/decoding Unix archive files - Rust source code
- Ubuntu apt - librust-ar-dev - 0.9.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: librust-ar-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Encoding/decoding Unix archive files - Rust source code
- dnf - rust-ar+default-devel - 0.9.0-7.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-ar+default-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Library for encoding/decoding Unix archive files | https://crates.io/crates/ar
- dnf - rust-ar-devel - 0.9.0-7.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-ar-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Library for encoding/decoding Unix archive files | https://crates.io/crates/ar
- dnf - rust-size+default-devel - 0.5.0-4.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-size+default-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | For expressing, formatting, and interacting with file sizes | https://crates.io/crates/size
- dnf - rust-size+serde-devel - 0.5.0-4.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-size+serde-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | For expressing, formatting, and interacting with file sizes | https://crates.io/crates/size
- dnf - rust-size+std-devel - 0.5.0-4.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-size+std-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | For expressing, formatting, and interacting with file sizes | https://crates.io/crates/size
- dnf - rust-size-devel - 0.5.0-4.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: rust-size-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | For expressing, formatting, and interacting with file sizes | https://crates.io/crates/size


## Verwandte Links

- [cargo-binutils](https://pkg.so/de/pkg/cargo/cargo-binutils/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Combined YAML source

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


## Quellen

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