# Install asm-lsp with Homebrew, Nix

Language server for NASM/GAS/GO Assembly. Version 0.10.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#asm-lsp.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:asm-lsp
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install asm-lsp
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#asm-lsp
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/as/asm-lsp/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:asm-lsp
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.10.1
- **Source summary:** Language server for NASM/GAS/GO Assembly
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/bergercookie/asm-lsp>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/bergercookie/asm-lsp>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- asm-lsp (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.10.1
## Project history and usage

asm-lsp is a Rust language server for assembly code. Its README says it supports NASM, GAS, Go assembly, MASM, ca65, AVR, FASM, and several instruction-set families including x86, ARM, RISC-V, z80, AVR, and 6502.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in July 2020, in the period when editors increasingly standardized on Language Server Protocol integrations. The project applies that model to assembly source, where hover help, completions, diagnostics, and references are useful but historically fragmented by assembler dialect.

The README documents a configuration-centered design: project-local `.asm-lsp.toml` files override global config under `~/.config/asm-lsp/`, and `compile_commands.json` or `compile_flags.txt` can extend diagnostics and include-path behavior.

### Adoption history

asm-lsp is packaged for Rust users through cargo and for system package users through Homebrew and Nix according to the input package facts. GitHub metadata shows several hundred stars, which is meaningful for a specialized editor backend for assembly.

### How it is used

Users install it with cargo, GitHub release binaries, or a package manager, then configure an editor LSP client to launch `asm-lsp` for assembly filetypes. Projects can add `.asm-lsp.toml`, or generate one interactively with `asm-lsp gen-config`, to select assembler dialects, instruction sets, diagnostics, and compiler settings.

### Why package nerds care

asm-lsp matters to package nerds because it turns a historically editor-specific assembly tooling problem into a single reusable server binary. It is also a good example of a modern Rust CLI that becomes useful only when package managers, editor integrations, and per-project config all line up.

### Timeline

- 2020: GitHub repository created.
- 2024: v0.8.0 and v0.9.0 GitHub releases published.
- 2025: v0.10.x releases published.
- 2026: Homebrew API lists stable version 0.10.1.

### Related projects

- The README cites upstream documentation sources including binutils GAS docs, NASM docs, Microsoft MASM docs, cc65 ca65 docs, Arm documentation, Microchip AVR documentation, and the asm-dude Visual Studio extension.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/bergercookie/asm-lsp>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/bergercookie/asm-lsp/releases>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/asm-lsp.json>
- <https://github.com/bergercookie/asm-lsp#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## 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: ./.asm-lsp.toml, ~/.config/asm-lsp/.asm-lsp.toml, compile_commands.json, compile_flags.txt
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - asm-lsp: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/as/asm-lsp/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/asm-lsp.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/asm-lsp.yml)


## Sources

- 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