# valabind mit Homebrew, apt, MacPorts, pacman installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:valabind
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install valabind
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install valabind
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/valabind/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install valabind
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S valabind
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:valabind
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Vala bindings for radare, reverse engineering framework
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/radare/valabind>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/radare/valabind>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:06:33-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- valabind (Alias)
- valabind-cc (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.1.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

valabind is a Vala-oriented binding generator from the radare ecosystem. It parses Vala or VAPI files and turns them into SWIG interface files, C++, NodeJS-ffi, or GIR output so APIs written in Vala or described by VAPI files can be bound into other languages.

### Projektgeschichte

The official README describes valabind as a tool for transforming Vala or VAPI files into binding-oriented outputs. It preserves older language in the README referring to a Mercurial repository, but the current official source is the GitHub repository under the radare organization.

GitHub releases show a modest public release history, with 1.5.0 published in 2018, 1.7.2 in 2020, and 2.0.0 in 2026. The repository remains small compared with Vala itself, but it occupies a specific interoperability niche.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The package appears in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, MacPorts, and Arch according to the input, which suggests adoption mainly by users who need radare/Vala binding workflows rather than broad application development.

Its adoption is tied to radare and reverse-engineering tooling: the input describes it as Vala bindings for the radare reverse-engineering framework, and the README's repository ownership and contact point are within the radare ecosystem.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users invoke `valabind` and `valabind-cc` to generate binding glue from Vala/VAPI descriptions. The README documents building with either the traditional configure/make flow or Meson, then installing the tools.

The practical package-manager use case is installing the generator as part of a binding build chain, often alongside Vala, SWIG, and radare-related source packages.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

valabind is interesting to package nerds because it sits in the narrow space between Vala's VAPI metadata, SWIG-style bindings, and reverse-engineering tooling. It is the kind of small generator package that only appears when a build wants language bindings rather than a user-facing program.

Its significance is therefore mostly historical and infrastructural: it shows how Vala's compile-time API descriptions were reused to generate bindings for non-Vala consumers in the radare ecosystem.

### Zeitleiste

- 2018: 1.5.0 GitHub release published.
- 2020: 1.7.2 GitHub release published.
- 2026: 2.0.0 GitHub release published.

### Related projects

- Vala and VAPI files are the input language and metadata format valabind understands.
- SWIG is a key output target for generating language bindings.
- radare and radare2 are the reverse-engineering ecosystem associated with the project.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/radare/valabind/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://github.com/radare/valabind>
- source_facts.description
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** red / mittel
- escape, surveillance, or offensive capability signal

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - valabind - 1.8.0-1+b4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: valabind from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | converts vapi files to SWIG, C++, GIR or GEAR files | https://github.com/radare/valabind
- Ubuntu apt - valabind - 1.8.0-1build5: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: valabind from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | converts vapi files to SWIG, C++, GIR or GEAR files | https://github.com/radare/valabind
- pacman - valabind - 2.1.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: valabind from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Create bindings from vapi to nodejs, python, swig, c++ | https://github.com/radare/valabind
- MacPorts - valabind: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/valabind/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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