# Install syntaxerl with Homebrew

Syntax checker for Erlang code and config files. Version 0.15.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:syntaxerl
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install syntaxerl
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:syntaxerl
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.15.0
- **Source summary:** Syntax checker for Erlang code and config files
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/ten0s/syntaxerl>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ten0s/syntaxerl>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- syntaxerl (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.15.0
## Project history and usage

SyntaxErl is a command-line syntax checker for Erlang source, header, application, release, escript, Leex, and Yecc files. It is designed primarily as a backend for editor diagnostics.

### Project history

The official repository was created in June 2012. SyntaxErl grew as a focused wrapper around Erlang parsing and compilation behavior, reading project dependency and library paths from rebar, rebar3, or erlang.mk projects rather than maintaining a separate application configuration.

Its compatibility expanded beyond `.erl` files to Erlang headers and configuration artifacts, escripts, Leex lexer sources, and Yecc parser sources. The README documents the 0.16 command-line interface and editor setup.

### Adoption history

SyntaxErl was integrated into Emacs Flymake and Vim tooling, first through Syntastic and later ALE. The supplied metadata records Homebrew packaging, giving editor users a system-managed way to install the checker on macOS and other Homebrew platforms.

### How it is used

Users invoke `syntaxerl <filename>` directly or configure an editor linter to run it when Erlang files change or are saved. The checker relies on a buildable Erlang project and existing dependencies so it can resolve the same include, dependency, and library paths as the project's build tooling.

### Why package nerds care

SyntaxErl represents the Unix editor-tool pattern of a narrow command-line checker serving several front ends. Its support for multiple generations of Erlang build tooling and several editor integrations makes a single packaged executable useful across otherwise different development setups.

### Timeline

- 2012: The official SyntaxErl repository was created.
- 2010s: SyntaxErl was integrated with Emacs Flymake and Vim Syntastic.
- 2010s–2020s: Support expanded to rebar3, erlang.mk, and Vim ALE workflows.

### Related projects

- Erlang/OTP supplies the language and compiler ecosystem; rebar, rebar3, and erlang.mk provide the project metadata SyntaxErl reads. Flymake, Syntastic, and ALE are the editor diagnostic front ends documented by upstream.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ten0s/syntaxerl>
- <https://github.com/ten0s/syntaxerl#readme>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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