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Install liboil with Homebrew, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, zypper

C library of simple functions optimized for various CPUs. Version 0.3.17 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install liboil

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install liboil

MacPorts ports tree · devel/liboil/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install liboil

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · liboil · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#liboil

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/li/liboil/package.nix · source: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install liboil-0_3-0

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · liboil-0_3-0 · source: download.opensuse.org

overview

Package summary

C library of simple functions optimized for various CPUs

Commands and aliases

  • oil-bugreport

history

Project history and usage

liboil, the Library of Optimized Inner Loops, is a freedesktop.org-era C library of simple CPU-optimized routines. It collected small loops such as array conversion, multiplication, summing, and other SIMD-friendly operations behind a reusable API.

Project history

The project documentation describes liboil as a library of simple functions optimized for CPUs using techniques such as Altivec, MMX, and SSE. Its goal was to consolidate optimized inner-loop code that multimedia applications and libraries often carried privately.

The freedesktop.org download directory shows a compact release line from 0.2.0 and 0.3.x in 2005 through 0.3.17 in February 2010. After that period, Orc, the Oil Runtime Compiler, became the successor project for generating and executing SIMD-style inner loops.

Adoption history

liboil mattered most in the multimedia and desktop stack, where many packages needed fast pixel, audio, or numeric loops but did not want to maintain architecture-specific assembly in every project.

Its package-manager life continued after active upstream development because older software still linked against liboil, while newer software increasingly moved to Orc or compiler/native SIMD approaches.

How it is used

Developers used liboil as a C library for optimized primitive operations. Package users mostly encountered it indirectly as a dependency, with oil-bugreport available as a diagnostic executable.

The library is relevant when building older multimedia stacks or software that still depends on the liboil API rather than Orc.

Why package nerds care

liboil is package-nerd interesting because it captures a transitional moment before widespread portable SIMD abstractions: projects wanted reusable CPU-specific inner loops, but compiler autovectorization and runtime SIMD libraries had not settled the problem.

Its replacement by Orc is also instructive. The successor moved from a collection of hand-optimized functions toward a small runtime compiler for array operations, which explains why liboil often remains only as a compatibility package.

Timeline

  • 2005: freedesktop.org download directory records liboil 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, and the early 0.3.x series.
  • 2006: freedesktop.org download directory records releases through liboil 0.3.10.
  • 2008: freedesktop.org download directory records liboil 0.3.13, 0.3.14, and 0.3.15.
  • 2010: freedesktop.org download directory records liboil 0.3.17.
  • 2010s: Orc is documented as the successor to liboil.

Related projects

  • Orc, the Oil Runtime Compiler, is documented by its project as the successor to liboil.
  • GStreamer is closely related through Orc stewardship and through the multimedia use cases that made optimized inner loops valuable.
  • Altivec, MMX, SSE, NEON, and similar SIMD instruction families are the hardware context behind liboil and Orc.

security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:library-like

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 5 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
oil-bugreportcliglobal executable

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 generated2026-07-08
manager version0.3.17
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://wiki.freedesktop.org/liboil/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://wiki.freedesktop.org/liboil/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:liboil
Version0.3.17
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/liboil
Homepagehttps://wiki.freedesktop.org/liboil/
Repositoryhttps://cgit.freedesktop.org/liboil
Upstream docshttps://wiki.freedesktop.org/liboil
LicenseBSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
Source archivehttps://liboil.freedesktop.org/download/liboil-0.3.17.tar.gz
Build dependenciesautoconf, automake, gtk-doc, libtool, pkgconf
Bottleavailable (on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nameliboil
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

liboil

nix profile install nixpkgs#liboil
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/li/liboil/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
dnf95%

liboil 0.3.16-38.fc44

Library of Optimized Inner Loops, CPU optimized functions

http://liboil.freedesktop.org/

sudo dnf install liboil
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: liboil
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: liboil from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
dnf95%

liboil-devel 0.3.16-38.fc44

Development files and static library for liboil

http://liboil.freedesktop.org/

sudo dnf install liboil-devel
  • License: LicenseRef-Callaway-BSD
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: i686
  • Source Package: liboil
  • 7 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: liboil-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

liboil-0_3-0 0.3.17-26.14

Library of Optimized Inner Loops

http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/

sudo zypper install liboil-0_3-0
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: System/Libraries
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: liboil
  • 3 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liboil-0_3-0 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

liboil-devel 0.3.17-26.14

Headers for the library of Optimized Inner Loops

http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/

sudo zypper install liboil-devel
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: Development/Libraries/C and C++
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: liboil
  • 5 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liboil-devel from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

liboil-doc 0.3.17-26.14

Documentation for the library of Optimized Inner Loops

http://liboil.freedesktop.org/wiki/

sudo zypper install liboil-doc
  • License: BSD-2-Clause
  • Category: Documentation/HTML
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: liboil
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: liboil-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
MacPorts95%

liboil

sudo port install liboil
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Liboil
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: devel/liboil/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • autoconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • automakeBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gtk-docBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • libtoolBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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  • aliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, performance.
  • aprShares av.db curated category or tags: c-library, cli, developer-tools.

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