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Install llvm with Homebrew
Next-gen compiler infrastructure. Version 22.1.8 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-01.
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Package summary
Next-gen compiler infrastructure
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Commands and aliases
- FileCheck
- UnicodeNameMappingGenerator
- amdgpu-arch
- analyze-build
- bugpoint
- clang
- clang++
- clang-22
- clang-apply-replacements
- clang-change-namespace
- clang-check
- clang-cl
- clang-cpp
- clang-doc
- clang-extdef-mapping
- clang-format
- clang-include-cleaner
- clang-include-fixer
- clang-installapi
- clang-linker-wrapper
- clang-move
- clang-nvlink-wrapper
- clang-offload-bundler
- clang-offload-packager
- clang-query
- clang-refactor
- clang-reorder-fields
- clang-repl
- clang-scan-deps
- clang-sycl-linker
- clang-tblgen
- clang-tidy
history
Project history and usage
LLVM is a modular compiler and toolchain infrastructure project packaged by Homebrew as the current llvm formula. It includes the LLVM core libraries and command-line tools, the Clang compiler frontend, LLDB debugger, LLD linker, libc++, MLIR tooling, and many smaller developer utilities.
Project history
LLVM began as a University of Illinois research project to provide a modern SSA-based compilation strategy for static and dynamic languages. The official LLVM homepage describes the project as a collection of modular and reusable compiler and toolchain technologies, with LLVM now functioning as a project name rather than an acronym for a virtual machine.
The project grew from core optimizer and code-generation libraries into an umbrella project. The official overview lists major subprojects such as Clang for C-family languages, LLDB for native debugging, LLD for linking, libc++ for the C++ standard library, Flang for Fortran, and MLIR infrastructure for compiler construction. The GitHub README describes the repository as source for compilers, optimizers, and run-time environments.
Adoption history
LLVM became a package-manager staple because it is both an end-user toolchain and a dependency for other language runtimes, build systems, static analyzers, editor integrations, and cross-compilation stacks. The official homepage notes production use by commercial and open-source projects and continued academic use, which matches the broad package-manager coverage shown in the input metadata.
For Homebrew users, llvm is often installed to obtain a newer clang than Apple's system compiler, a full llvm-config and library stack, up-to-date linker and object-file tools, clang-format, clang-tidy, clangd, lldb, and architecture-specific utilities. Versioned Homebrew formulae such as llvm@14 through llvm@17 exist because downstream projects frequently need a stable ABI, code-generation behavior, or plugin API tied to a specific LLVM major release.
How it is used
Users install llvm to compile C, C++, Objective-C, and other LLVM-backed languages; run optimizer and code-generation tools such as opt and llc; inspect and transform object files with llvm-objdump, llvm-nm, llvm-ar, and llvm-strip; debug with lldb; format and analyze C-family source with clang-format, clang-tidy, and clangd; and build other packages that need llvm-config or LLVM libraries.
The package is also a build dependency for projects that embed LLVM as a library, generate LLVM IR, ship compiler plugins, or need MLIR and TableGen tooling. In package-manager culture, llvm is less a single command than a large toolchain substrate whose installed prefix can change the behavior of many builds.
Why package nerds care
LLVM is one of the most consequential developer-tool packages in Unix package managers: it provides compilers, linkers, debuggers, binary utilities, formatters, language servers, and libraries that other packages compile against. Its formula is watched closely because a major LLVM bump can reveal C++ standard-library issues, linker changes, sanitizer behavior changes, and downstream projects that accidentally depended on private compiler internals.
The package is also historically important because it displaced the idea that a system compiler was a monolith. LLVM's reusable libraries let package ecosystems build many language frontends, analyzers, and toolchain experiments on common optimizer and code-generation components.
Timeline
- 2000: LLVM begins as a University of Illinois research project.
- 2003: LLVM 1.0 is announced as an open compiler infrastructure release.
- 2011: The LLVM name is treated as the project brand rather than an acronym.
- 2016-12-07: The llvm/llvm-project monorepo is created on GitHub.
- 2019: LLVM 9.0.0 and later releases use Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception licensing.
- 2022-03-23: LLVM 14.0.0 is published.
- 2022-09-06: LLVM 15.0.0 is published.
- 2023-03-17: LLVM 16.0.0 is published.
- 2023-09-19: LLVM 17.0.1 is published.
Related projects
- Clang, LLDB, LLD, libc++, Flang, MLIR, compiler-rt, OpenMP, and polly are LLVM umbrella subprojects or closely shipped components.
- Projects such as Rust, Swift, Julia, Zig, Mesa, WebAssembly toolchains, and many static-analysis tools are common LLVM consumers in package-manager ecosystems.
- Homebrew's llvm@14, llvm@15, llvm@16, and llvm@17 formulae preserve older major release lines for packages that cannot immediately follow the current llvm formula.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: yellow
compiler and toolchain runtime.
Risk classifier
yellow risk · high confidence · runtime
Why
- compiler and toolchain runtime
Signals
- override:llvm
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
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FileCheck | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
UnicodeNameMappingGenerator | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
amdgpu-arch | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
analyze-build | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
bugpoint | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang++ | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-22 | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-apply-replacements | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-change-namespace | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-check | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-cl | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-cpp | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-doc | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-extdef-mapping | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-format | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-include-cleaner | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-include-fixer | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-installapi | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-linker-wrapper | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-move | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-nvlink-wrapper | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-offload-bundler | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-offload-packager | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-query | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-refactor | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-reorder-fields | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-repl | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-scan-deps | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-sycl-linker | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-tblgen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clang-tidy | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
clangd | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
count | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
diagtool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
dsymutil | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
find-all-symbols | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
git-clang-format | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
hmaptool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
intercept-build | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llc | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb-argdumper | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb-dap | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb-instr | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb-mcp | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb-server | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lldb-tblgen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lli | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
lli-child-target | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-PerfectShuffle | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-addr2line | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ar | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-as | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-bcanalyzer | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-bitcode-strip | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-c-test | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cas | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cat | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cfi-verify | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cgdata | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-config | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cov | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ctxprof-util | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cvtres | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cxxdump | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cxxfilt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-cxxmap | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-debuginfo-analyzer | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-debuginfod | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-debuginfod-find | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-diff | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-dis | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-dlltool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-dwarfdump | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-dwarfutil | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-dwp | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-exegesis | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-extract | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-gsymutil | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ifs | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-install-name-tool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ir2vec | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-jitlink | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-jitlink-executor | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-lib | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-libtool-darwin | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-link | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-lipo | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-lto | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-lto2 | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-mc | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-mca | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ml | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ml64 | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-modextract | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-nm | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-objcopy | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-objdump | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-offload-binary | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-offload-wrapper | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-opt-report | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-otool | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-pdbutil | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-profdata | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-profgen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-ranlib | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-rc | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-readelf | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-readobj | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-readtapi | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-reduce | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-remarkutil | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-rtdyld | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-sim | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-size | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-split | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-stress | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-strings | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-strip | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-symbolizer | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-tblgen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-test-mustache-spec | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-tli-checker | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-undname | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-windres | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
llvm-xray | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-cat | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-linalg-ods-yaml-gen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-lsp-server | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-minimal-opt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-minimal-opt-canonicalize | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-opt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-pdll | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-pdll-lsp-server | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-query | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-reduce | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-rewrite | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-runner | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-tblgen | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-transform-opt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
mlir-translate | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
modularize | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
not | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
nvptx-arch | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
obj2yaml | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
offload-arch | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
opt | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
pp-trace | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
reduce-chunk-list | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
run-clang-tidy | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
sancov | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
sanstats | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
scan-build | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
scan-build-py | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
scan-view | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
split-file | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tblgen-lsp-server | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
tblgen-to-irdl | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
verify-uselistorder | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
yaml-bench | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
yaml2macho-core | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
yaml2obj | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version22.1.8
manager updated2026-08-01
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:llvm |
|---|---|
| Version | 22.1.8 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://llvm.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project |
| Last updated | 2026-08-01T07:56:08+01:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
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Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation