installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install cabin

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#cabin

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ca/cabin/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Package manager and build system for C/C++

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

cabin

historique

Historique du projet et usages

Cabin is a pre-1.0, Cargo-inspired package manager and build system for conventional C and C++ projects. It is written in Rust and aims to reduce C/C++ build boilerplate with predictable project structure and declarative metadata.

Historique du projet

Cabin's README describes it as an opinionated C/C++ build tool inspired by Cargo, but the official docs stress that it is not Cargo-compatible. It borrows Cargo vocabulary where it fits and deliberately diverges where C/C++ build semantics require separate treatment.

The project was initially funded by Japan's MITOU IT Program, according to the README sponsorship section, with additional support from Shigeru Urushibara of UL Systems. That funding history explains why a niche C/C++ build tool has a fairly complete documentation surface despite being pre-1.0.

The 2026 documentation covers manifests, configuration discovery, workspaces, dependencies, lockfiles, source artifacts, testing, compiler wrappers, registry design, and CLI distribution artifacts, indicating a broad attempt to model package-manager behavior rather than just invoke a compiler.

Historique d'adoption

Cabin's public adoption appears early and niche. Its own README carries a pre-1.0 caution, while Homebrew and Nix packaging show that the CLI has become installable through normal developer package channels.

The release history shows active 2024-2026 development, with 0.10.1 in September 2024, 0.13.0 in July 2025, and 0.16.0 in June 2026. Recent releases emphasize manifest changes, workspaces, language standards, testing, docs, release automation, and distribution packaging.

Modes d'utilisation

Users run cabin new or cabin init to scaffold a package, cabin build to build it, cabin run to execute it, and cabin metadata, tree, or explain to inspect resolved state. A minimal cabin.toml declares package metadata and targets such as executables or libraries.

Cabin targets mixed C/C++ projects where CC and CXX remain independent, C and C++ standards stay separate, and the resolved build configuration gets a deterministic fingerprint.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For package nerds, Cabin is interesting because it asks what Cargo-like ergonomics look like for C and C++ without pretending C/C++ has Rust's compilation model. It packages conventions, lockfiles, manifests, workspaces, and registry ideas around languages that historically outsourced those choices to build systems and distribution maintainers.

It is also a compact example of Rust tooling being used to build developer infrastructure for non-Rust ecosystems.

Chronologie

2018: Cabin was initially funded by the MITOU IT Program.
2024-09-06: Cabin 0.10.1 was released.
2025-07-25: Cabin 0.13.0 was released.
2026-06-01: Cabin 0.14.0 was released.
2026-06-09: Cabin 0.15.0 was released.
2026-06-26: Cabin 0.16.0 was released.

Related projects

Cargo is the explicit interface inspiration, though Cabin is not Cargo-compatible.
CMake, Meson, Make, and Ninja are adjacent C/C++ build-system reference points.
Rust is relevant because Cabin itself is written in Rust.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : orange

generalized runtime or code generation signal. infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Classificateur de risque

risque orange · confiance moyen · infrastructure

Pourquoi

generalized runtime or code generation signal
infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signaux

text:build system
text:package manager

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

local files

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

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Linux: $CABIN_CONFIG_HOME/config.toml$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cabin/config.toml~/.config/cabin/config.toml<workspace-root>/.cabin/config.toml<package-root>/.cabin/config.toml$CABIN_CONFIG
macOS: $CABIN_CONFIG_HOME/config.toml~/Library/Application Support/cabin/config.toml<workspace-root>/.cabin/config.toml<package-root>/.cabin/config.toml$CABIN_CONFIG
Windows: $CABIN_CONFIG_HOME/config.toml%APPDATA%\cabin\config.toml<workspace-root>\.cabin\config.toml<package-root>\.cabin\config.toml%CABIN_CONFIG%

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`cabin`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25

version du gestionnaire0.17.0

gestionnaire mis à jour2026-07-07

données localesOK

amontà jour

dernière version détectée0.17.0

https://github.com/cabinpkg/cabin

OKAucun avertissement de fraîcheur n'a été généré.

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:cabin
Version	0.17.0
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cabin
Page d'accueil	https://cabinpkg.com
Dépôt	https://github.com/cabinpkg/cabin
Docs amont	https://cabinpkg.com/docs
Licence	Apache-2.0
Archive source	https://github.com/cabinpkg/cabin/archive/refs/tags/0.17.0.tar.gz
Dernière mise à jour	2026-07-07T07:00:26Z
Pulse	updated
Dépendances de compilation	rust
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	cabin
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

cabin

nix profile install nixpkgs#cabin

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Cabin

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

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/cabin.yml

Sources utilisées

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

Installer cabin avec Homebrew, Nix