# Install fobis with Homebrew KISS build tool for automatically building modern Fortran projects. Version 3.8.22 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-09. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:fobis ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install fobis ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:fobis - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 3.8.22 - **Source summary:** KISS build tool for automatically building modern Fortran projects - **Homepage:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-09T08:37:53Z - **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - FoBiS.py (alias) - fobis (alias) ## Install behavior - Bottle: not available ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-08-03 - Package-manager version: 3.8.22 ## Project history and usage FoBiS, the Fortran Building System, is a Python-based build and project tool for modern Fortran. Its official README describes automatic dependency-resolving builds with no makefiles or boilerplate, plus package-management, testing, coverage, scaffolding, and documentation features. ### Project history FoBiS grew around the recurring Fortran problem of manually tracking module, include, and source compilation order. The official documentation presents `fobis build` as a zero-configuration path for simple projects and the `fobos` file as an INI-style replacement for makefiles in complex projects. ### Adoption history The project is published through Homebrew in the supplied package metadata and through the upstream Python/PyPI-oriented naming shown in the official README badge. The README also lists a set of Fortran projects using FoBiS, including ADAM, BeFoR64, FACE, FiNeR, FLAP, PENF, StringiFor, VecFor, and VTKFortran. ### How it is used FoBiS users typically run `fobis build` for convention-based builds or define modes in a `fobos` file for named compiler configurations. The tool also supports fetching GitHub dependencies, lock files, test discovery, coverage, doctests, build caching, introspection, scaffolding, and local-LLM commit-message generation. ### Why package nerds care FoBiS matters to package and build-tool enthusiasts because it packages Fortran's module-ordering problem as a CLI workflow, while also treating dependencies, build profiles, lock files, and reusable project scaffolding as first-class features. It is a Fortran-specific counterpart to the automation that other language ecosystems expect from their package tools. ### Timeline - Current: Official README brands FoBiS as the Fortran Building System. - Current: Official docs describe `fobos` as the FoBiS makefile and document dependency fetching with `fobos.lock`. - Current: Supplied package metadata lists Homebrew packaging. ### Related projects - FoBiS is related to modern Fortran projects listed in its README, including ADAM, BeFoR64, FACE, FiNeR, FLAP, FUNDAL, FOSSIL, MORTIF, MOTIOn, PENF, StringiFor, VecFor, and VTKFortran. It also integrates with GitHub-hosted dependencies, gcovr or lcov coverage tools, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible local LLM servers. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes generalized runtime or code generation signal. - **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium - generalized runtime or code generation 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: ./fobos, ~/.config/fobis/config.ini ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fobis.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fobis.yml) ## Sources - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - cross-ecosystem install command graph