# Install mx with Homebrew

Command-line tool used for the development of Graal projects. Version 7.84.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-30.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mx
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mx
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mx
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 7.84.2
- **Source summary:** Command-line tool used for the development of Graal projects
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/graalvm/mx>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/graalvm/mx>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-30T19:12:31Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mx (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 7.84.2
## 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

- <https://github.com/graalvm/mx>
- <https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/master/vm/README.md>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/graalvm/mx/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

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.



## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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