# souffle mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für souffle in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:souffle
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install souffle
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#souffle
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/so/souffle/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:souffle
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Paketmanager-Seite:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/souffle>
- **Version:** 2.5
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Logic Defined Static Analysis
- **Homepage:** <https://souffle-lang.github.io>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle>
- **Upstream-Dokumentation:** <https://souffle-lang.github.io/docs.html>
- **Lizenz:** UPL-1.0
- **Quellarchiv:** <https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle/archive/refs/tags/2.5.tar.gz>
- **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- souffle (cli)
- souffle-compile.py (cli)
- souffleprof (cli)
- souffle (Alias)
- souffle-compile.py (Alias)
- souffleprof (Alias)

## Build-Abhängigkeiten

- bison
- cmake
- mcpp
- pkgconf

## Von macOS bereitgestellte Bibliotheken

- libffi
- ncurses
- sqlite

## Installationsverhalten

- Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert
- Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-07-08
- Manager-Version: 2.5
- lokale Daten: OK
- Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle
- neueste erkannte Version: 2.5 (aktuell)
- Info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Soufflé is a Datalog-inspired logic programming language and synthesis tool for static analysis. Its command-line tools compile or interpret Datalog-like specifications and can synthesize parallel C++ programs from logic rules.

### Projektgeschichte

The official documentation says Soufflé was initially designed at Oracle Labs for crafting static analysis in logic. Its publication list shows the research lineage: an ASWEC 2015 experience report, CAV and CC papers in 2016, and later work on indexes, data structures, provenance, interpretation, and incrementalization.

The public GitHub repository was created in March 2016 and presents itself as the official repository for the Soufflé language project. The README describes Soufflé as similar to Datalog, with records, and frequently used as a domain-specific language for analysis problems.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Soufflé's adoption has been strongest in program analysis and research tooling. The official docs list applications including Java static analysis with Doop, network analysis, data analytics, cloud-computing security analysis, and smart-contract security analysis with Gigahorse.

Packaging reflects that specialist audience. The official install page documents Ubuntu/Fedora/Oracle Linux packages, source builds, and a Homebrew tap; the Homebrew metadata in this batch also records a packaged `souffle` formula in Homebrew and Nix.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users write relations, facts, and rules in Soufflé, then run the `souffle` CLI to evaluate the program or synthesize efficient C++ for larger analyses. The ecosystem also includes profiling and compile helper tools such as `souffleprof` and `souffle-compile.py`.

Common usage is not a general scripting task but analysis construction: points-to analysis, taint analysis, security checks, graph reachability, and other rule-heavy computations where Datalog is concise and generated code needs to be fast.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Soufflé is package-nerd significant because it packages a research compiler and Datalog runtime into a usable developer CLI. It is a bridge between papers, static-analysis frameworks, and installed command-line tools.

It also shows why package managers matter for research software: reproducible installation makes it much easier for analyzers, benchmarks, and downstream tools to depend on the same language implementation.

### Zeitleiste

- 2015: Soufflé-related Datalog static-analysis experience report published.
- 2016: Soufflé CAV and CC papers published and public GitHub repository created.
- 2021: PLDI paper published on an efficient interpreter for Datalog by de-specializing relations.
- 2025: Soufflé 2.5 released on GitHub.

### Related projects

- Datalog is the language family Soufflé extends for large-scale analysis.
- Doop is named by the official docs as a Java static-analysis application using Soufflé-style Datalog analysis.
- Gigahorse is named by the official docs as a smart-contract security-analysis application.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/souffle-lang/souffle>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/souffle-lang/souffle/releases>
- <https://github.com/souffle-lang/souffle>
- <https://souffle-lang.github.io/docs.html>
- <https://souffle-lang.github.io/install>
- <https://souffle-lang.github.io/publications>
- input.json source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Details aus der Quelldatenbank

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** souffle
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - souffle: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/so/souffle/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Verwandte Links

- [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family.
- [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.
- [bison](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/bison/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cmake](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cmake/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [mcpp](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/mcpp/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [cflow](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cflow/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [checkstyle](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/checkstyle/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [clazy](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/clazy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [clingo](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/clingo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, logic-programming.
- [cppcheck](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cppcheck/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [credo](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/credo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [datadog-static-analyzer](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/datadog-static-analyzer/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [detekt](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/detekt/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, static-analysis.
- [staticcheck](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/staticcheck/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: analysis, cli, developer, developer-tools, programming.
- [statix](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/statix/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: analysis, cli, developer, developer-tools, programming.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/souffle.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/souffle.yml)


## Quellen

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- 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
