# fastbuild mit Homebrew, MacPorts installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für fastbuild in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:fastbuild ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install fastbuild ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install fbuild ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: devel/fbuild/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fastbuild - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 1.20 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** High performance build system for Windows, OSX and Linux - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** Zlib - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-04-26T11:46:49Z - **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - fbuild (cli) - fbuildworker (cli) - fbuild (Alias) - fbuildworker (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-08 - Manager-Version: 1.20 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-04-26 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/fastbuild/fastbuild - neueste erkannte Version: v1.20 (aktuell) ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung FASTBuild is a high-performance open-source build system focused on parallel compilation, distributed compilation, and object caching. It is especially associated with large C and C++ codebases, game studios, console targets, and build farms where compile latency directly affects developer iteration. ### Projektgeschichte FASTBuild's official changelog lists v0.50 as the first public release in February 2013, already including multithreaded compilation, local or network build caching, Unity/Blob generation, and unit-test integration. That first release established the project as a performance-oriented alternative to heavier project-file or script-driven build workflows. The project evolved through frequent releases adding BFF language features, cache compression, report generation, distributed build reliability, project-generation support, and compiler/platform coverage. Its documentation frames the `.bff` configuration language as a compact, human-readable way to express build graphs without generating huge IDE project files by hand. The official site describes FASTBuild as a native Windows, macOS, and Linux application with no external runtime dependencies beyond the compilers being driven. Its design emphasis is a small self-contained executable, fast no-op builds, precise dependency graph handling, and aggressive reduction of overhead in process invocation, include scanning, and database load/save. ### Adoptionsgeschichte FASTBuild's homepage says it is used in production by game developers ranging from small independent teams to some of the largest studios in the world. Its platform list includes PC, Mac, Linux, consoles, smartphones, and retro systems, which matches its reputation as a build tool for cross-platform game and engine development. Its adoption story is less about broad default availability and more about teams embedding a tiny tool into source control or CI. The documentation explicitly notes that the executable can simply be copied or checked into revision control, an attractive model for studios that need reproducible build tooling across developer machines and agents. ### Wie es verwendet wird A FASTBuild project is usually driven by `fbuild` reading a BFF build file, commonly `fbuild.bff`, to define compilers, object lists, libraries, executables, aliases, tests, caching, and distribution settings. `fbuildworker` runs on spare machines to accept distributed compilation work. Common workflows include speeding up full builds with distributed workers, accelerating repeated builds with local or network caches, using Unity/Blob builds to reduce compilation overhead, and generating Visual Studio or Xcode projects that still route compilation through FASTBuild. FASTBuild is most valuable where build time is a productively painful bottleneck: large C++ games, engines, middleware, console SDK targets, and CI farms. For small projects the configuration language may be more machinery than needed; for very large ones the cache and worker model is the point. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren FASTBuild is package-nerd interesting because it is not just another make-like runner. It packages a build scheduler, cache protocol, distributed compiler client and worker, project generator, and a custom configuration language into small standalone binaries. It also sits in a niche where package managers and source-control vendoring overlap. Many teams pin a known FASTBuild binary in their repository, while Homebrew and MacPorts make it convenient for local experimentation and Unix developer environments. ### Zeitleiste - 2013: v0.50 became the first public release. - 2013: v0.53 added cache compression and cache hierarchy changes. - 2013: v0.56 added detailed build reports. - 2025: v1.15 focused on large-database, project-generation, and distributed compilation improvements. - 2026: v1.20 improved startup and BFF parsing performance. ### Related projects - MSBuild, Make, SCons, Ninja, and compiler cache tools occupy nearby build-system territory. - FASTBuild directly supports common compilers such as MSVC, GCC, Clang, SNC, GreenHills, CodeWarrior, and CUDA/NVCC according to its feature documentation. ### Quellen - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise generalized runtime or code generation signal. - **Geiger-Risiko:** yellow / mittel - generalized runtime or code generation signal ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: ./fbuild.bff - Windows: .\fbuild.bff ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** fastbuild - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - MacPorts - fbuild: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/fbuild/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [bsdmake](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bsdmake/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [cabin](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cabin/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [dune](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/dune/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [goredo](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/goredo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [litani](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/litani/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [mk-configure](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/mk-configure/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [muon](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/muon/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [ninja](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ninja/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: build-system, cli, developer-tools. - [ccache](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/ccache/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: build, build-cache, c-plus-plus, cache, cli. - [scons](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/scons/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: build, build-system, cache, cli, developer. - [tundra](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/tundra/) - Local metadata places this package in an adjacent workflow. Shared terms: build, build-system, builds, cli, developer. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fastbuild.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/fastbuild.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph