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Install treecc with Homebrew, MacPorts
Aspect-oriented approach to writing compilers. Version 0.3.10 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with macports: sudo port install treecc.
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overview
Package summary
Aspect-oriented approach to writing compilers
Project links
Commands and aliases
- treecc
history
Project history and usage
treecc is an older GNU/DotGNU compiler-construction tool for generating tree-building and tree-walking code from declarative input files.
Project history
The GNU treecc manual frames the tool as a complement to lex and yacc: traditional parser tools help with tokenizing and parsing, but leave semantic analysis, tree construction, and code generation largely to the programmer.
treecc's approach is to use a simple rule-based language, with embedded implementation code, that a translator converts into ordinary source code. The generated code helps build and walk trees and checks that relevant operations have been implemented for node types.
Historically, treecc lived inside the DotGNU/Portable.NET world. GNU's DotGNU page lists Portable.NET as an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure and records releases that included TreeCC in the mid-2000s; it also states that DotGNU was decommissioned as of December 2012 except for libjit.
Adoption history
treecc appears to have remained a niche compiler-construction utility rather than becoming a general parser ecosystem. Its package-manager interest is mostly archival and practical: keeping old DotGNU-era source packages buildable and keeping a small AOP-influenced compiler helper available.
How it is used
The documented command form is `treecc [OPTIONS] INPUT ...`, with options to select output and header files, Java output directories, extensions, forced creation, no-output checking, and option values supplied from the command line.
Why package nerds care
treecc is significant mainly as a preserved GNU-era compiler tool: small, specific, historically tied to Portable.NET, and useful to package maintainers who care about old language-runtime experiments.
Timeline
- 2004: GNU DotGNU news records Portable.NET 0.6.4 and Treecc 0.3.0.
- 2005: GNU DotGNU news records Portable.NET 0.6.12 and TreeCC 0.3.6.
- 2009: The published treecc manual HTML was generated from its Texinfo source.
- 2012: GNU states the DotGNU project was decommissioned except for libjit.
Related projects
- treecc was related to DotGNU Portable.NET, pnetC, pnetlib, and libjit in the old GNU/DotGNU stack.
- Conceptually it sits near lex/yacc-style compiler tools, but focuses on tree-building and tree-walking rather than lexical analysis or parsing.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
treecc | 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 version0.3.10
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:treecc |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.3.10 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc/treecc.html |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
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MacPorts95%
treecc
sudo port install treecc- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Treecc
source trail
Generated from repository data
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation