# ocamlbuild mit Homebrew, apk, apt, pacman installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:ocamlbuild
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install ocamlbuild
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add ocamlbuild
```

  Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ocamlbuild from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install ocamlbuild
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S ocamlbuild
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:ocamlbuild
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.16.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Generic build tool for OCaml
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-13T05:11:31Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- ocamlbuild (Alias)
- ocamlbuild.byte (Alias)
- ocamlbuild.native (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.16.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

ocamlbuild is the legacy OCaml build manager: a rule-based tool that automates compilation of OCaml libraries and programs with minimal project metadata. It predates Dune's dominance and remains packaged for older projects, tutorials, and build systems that still invoke ocamlbuild.

### Projektgeschichte

ocamlbuild was included in the OCaml compiler distribution from OCaml 3.10.0 in May 2007 through OCaml 4.02.3 in July 2015, according to the project's Changes file. OCaml 4.03 split ocamlbuild out as an independent project hosted at github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild, part of a broader effort to move tools out of the compiler distribution.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

For years, ocamlbuild was the standard bundled answer for medium-sized OCaml projects that needed more automation than raw Makefiles. The upstream README documents the later ecosystem shift: between January and June 2019, 77 newly released public OCaml packages used ocamlbuild while 544 used Dune.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers use ocamlbuild by asking it to build targets such as native executables, bytecode executables, or libraries; it infers dependencies and applies built-in OCaml compilation rules. More complex projects customize behavior with small text files and OCaml plugin code.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ocamlbuild is significant because it shows the OCaml toolchain's unbundling path. A tool that used to ship with the compiler became an opam and distro package, so package managers had to make explicit what older compiler installations provided implicitly.

### Zeitleiste

- 2007-05: OCaml 3.10.0 began shipping ocamlbuild in the compiler distribution.
- 2015-07: OCaml 4.02.3 was the last compiler release in the bundled ocamlbuild period documented by the ocamlbuild Changes file.
- 2016: OCaml 4.03 split ocamlbuild into an independent project.
- 2019-01 to 2019-06: The ocamlbuild README recorded 77 new public packages using ocamlbuild versus 544 using Dune.
- 2025-02-13: The GitHub releases page lists OCamlbuild 0.16.1.

### Related projects

- Dune is the successor build system recommended by the ocamlbuild README for new projects. ocamlfind/findlib integrates with ocamlbuild-era projects by supplying package flags, while opam installs ocamlbuild as a separate package for compiler switches that need it.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ocamlbuild>
- <https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild>
- <https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild/blob/master/Changes>
- <https://ocaml.org/manual/4.02/ocamlbuild.html>
- <https://ocaml.org/manual/4.03/manual032.html>
- <https://ocaml.org/releases/4.03.0>


## Sicherheitshinweise

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - ocamlbuild - 0.16.1-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: ocamlbuild from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Build tool for building OCaml libraries and programs | https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild/
- Ubuntu apt - ocamlbuild - 0.14.3-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: ocamlbuild from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Build tool for building OCaml libraries and programs | https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild/
- apk - ocaml-ocamlbuild - 0.14.1-r6: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ocaml-ocamlbuild from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Generic build tool with built-in rules for building OCaml library and programs (library & development files) | https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild
- apk - ocamlbuild - 0.14.1-r6: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ocamlbuild from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Generic build tool with built-in rules for building OCaml library and programs | https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild
- apk - ocamlbuild-doc - 0.14.1-r6: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: ocamlbuild-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Generic build tool with built-in rules for building OCaml library and programs (documentation) | https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild
- pacman - ocamlbuild - 0.16.1-7: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: ocamlbuild from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Build tool that has built-in rules for building OCaml libraries and programs | https://github.com/ocaml/ocamlbuild


## Combined YAML source

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