binutils

Install command:
brew install binutils

Formerly known as: gold

GNU binary tools for native development

https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/binutils.html

License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND GPL-3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-3.0-only

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/binutils.json

Formula code: binutils.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 2.47

Keg-only because Apple's CLT provides the same tools.

Depends on:

zstd 1.5.7 Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.6 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: bison (build)

Binaries: addr2line, ar, as, c++filt, coffdump, dlltool, dllwrap, elfedit, gp-archive, gp-collect-app, gp-display-html, gp-display-src, gp-display-text, gprof, gprofng, gprofng-archive, gprofng-collect-app, gprofng-display-html, gprofng-display-src, gprofng-display-text, gprofng-gmon, ld, ld.bfd, nm, objcopy, objdump, ranlib, readelf, size, srconv, strings, strip, sysdump, windmc, windres

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