install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install treecc

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%

sudo port install treecc

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

overview

Package summary

Aspect-oriented approach to writing compilers

Project links

Commands and aliases

treecc

history

Project history and usage

treecc is an older GNU/DotGNU compiler-construction tool for generating tree-building and tree-walking code from declarative input files.

Project history

The GNU treecc manual frames the tool as a complement to lex and yacc: traditional parser tools help with tokenizing and parsing, but leave semantic analysis, tree construction, and code generation largely to the programmer.

treecc's approach is to use a simple rule-based language, with embedded implementation code, that a translator converts into ordinary source code. The generated code helps build and walk trees and checks that relevant operations have been implemented for node types.

Historically, treecc lived inside the DotGNU/Portable.NET world. GNU's DotGNU page lists Portable.NET as an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure and records releases that included TreeCC in the mid-2000s; it also states that DotGNU was decommissioned as of December 2012 except for libjit.

Adoption history

treecc appears to have remained a niche compiler-construction utility rather than becoming a general parser ecosystem. Its package-manager interest is mostly archival and practical: keeping old DotGNU-era source packages buildable and keeping a small AOP-influenced compiler helper available.

How it is used

The documented command form is `treecc [OPTIONS] INPUT ...`, with options to select output and header files, Java output directories, extensions, forced creation, no-output checking, and option values supplied from the command line.

Why package nerds care

treecc is significant mainly as a preserved GNU-era compiler tool: small, specific, historically tied to Portable.NET, and useful to package maintainers who care about old language-runtime experiments.

Timeline

2004: GNU DotGNU news records Portable.NET 0.6.4 and Treecc 0.3.0.
2005: GNU DotGNU news records Portable.NET 0.6.12 and TreeCC 0.3.6.
2009: The published treecc manual HTML was generated from its Texinfo source.
2012: GNU states the DotGNU project was decommissioned except for libjit.

Related projects

treecc was related to DotGNU Portable.NET, pnetC, pnetlib, and libjit in the old GNU/DotGNU stack.
Conceptually it sits near lex/yacc-style compiler tools, but focuses on tree-building and tree-walking rather than lexical analysis or parsing.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 13 platform targets.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`treecc`	cli	global 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 version0.3.10

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc/treecc.html

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc/treecc.htmlnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:treecc
Version	0.3.10
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/treecc
Homepage	https://gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc/treecc.html
Repository	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/dotgnu-pnet
Upstream docs	https://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/treecc/treecc.html
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archive	https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dotgnu-pnet/treecc-0.3.10.tar.gz
Bottle	available (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-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	treecc
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

source database matches

Other package-manager records

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

MacPorts95%

treecc

sudo port install treecc

normalized package name match
Matched by: Treecc

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: devel/treecc/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.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/treecc.yml

Used sources

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

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