install

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macOS

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brew install mx

local Homebrew formula metadata

overview

Package summary

Command-line tool used for the development of Graal projects

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

mx

history

Project history and usage

mx is the Python-based command-line tool used to develop Graal projects. The graalvm/mx README describes it as a tool for managing primarily Java code: defining dependencies, building, testing, running, updating, and packaging artifacts, including code spread across multiple source repositories.

Project history

Its central abstraction is the suite. A suite is both a source tree and the container for libraries, projects, distributions, metadata, and imports of other suites. That model fits the GraalVM ecosystem, where compiler, Truffle, language, and VM components need coordinated builds across related repositories. Oracle's GraalVM build instructions use mx for building GraalVM from source, including the VM suite that assembles the GraalVM SDK, Graal JIT compiler, SubstrateVM, and Truffle framework.

How it is used

In package-manager terms, mx is not a general Java build tool competing with Maven or Gradle for application projects. It is a specialist developer tool for the GraalVM codebase and projects that adopt Graal's suite metadata format, useful when a repository needs mx commands, suite.py metadata, and the surrounding Graal build conventions.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mx. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

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
`mx`	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 version7.84.2

manager updated2026-07-30

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:mx
Version	7.84.2
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/graalvm/mx
Repository	https://github.com/graalvm/mx
Last updated	2026-07-30T19:12:31Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/mx.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

Install mx with Homebrew