atomvm/atomvm_packbeam

atomvm\_packbeam is a command-line tool and library for creating, listing, and manipulating AtomVM PackBeam files. It provides a dedicated API for managing these archives, including dependency pruning and entrypoint detection, while supporting installation via Homebrew. The system is designed to be used both as a standalone CLI utility and as an embeddable library.

A new shell script, release/packbeam.in, has been added to support Homebrew installations. This script sets up the necessary environment by locating the root directory, configuring the PATH to include the specific Erlang Runtime System (ERTS) version, and executing the packbeam binary, ensuring the tool runs correctly in Homebrew-managed environments.

release · high confidence

The packbeam functionality has been restructured to separate the core library logic from the escript entry point. A new \packbeam\_api\ module now provides the primary API for creating, listing, and manipulating AtomVM PackBeam files, while the original \packbeam\ module has been deprecated and now delegates to \packbeam\_api\ with warnings. This change improves maintainability and allows the library to be used independently of the command-line tool.

src · high confidence

The project has been renamed from 'packbeam' to 'atomvm\_packbeam', including the escript main application and release configuration in rebar.config. The license has been updated from a custom BSD-style license to the Apache 2.0 / LGPL-2.1-or-later dual license, reflected in the LICENSE file and SPDX headers across all source files. A full suite of documentation files has been added, including CHANGELOG.md, CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, and UPDATING.md, alongside an install.sh script to simplify user installation. The Makefile and rebar.config have been updated to use rebar3\_ex\_doc for documentation generation and to support new build profiles (test, doc, publish).

(repo-wide) · high confidence

Added comprehensive tests for the packbeam tool, including unit tests for the packbeam\_api module (covering simple creation, explicit start module selection, library mode, and combining AVMs) and integration tests for the packbeam CLI executable. The suite also introduces PropEr property-based tests to verify module handling and includes new test helper modules (a–g, x) and supervisor/worker stubs to validate dependency pruning and entrypoint detection logic.

test · high confidence

Written by watchdog.canine.dev from the codebase's own history, inside the signed delivery this page is composed from.

• First survey — no prior run to compare against. CAI 65.

• Code Health 98
• Architecture 69
• Maturity 59
• Readiness 68
• Security 67

• 129 commits — 109 feature/other, 20 fixes

• (root) — 51 commits
• (repo) — 47 commits
• src/packbeam.erl — 11 commits
• .github/workflows — 10 commits
• src/packbeam.app.src — 4 commits
• src/packbeam_api.erl — 4 commits
• release/packbeam.in — 1 commit
• test/prune_sup — 1 commit

• fix: Added version sub-command and fixed line number flags.
• fix: Fix --lib option on the command line interface
• fix: Fix broken link in docs
• fix: Fix bug in packbeam create
• fix: Fix dialyzer add workflow
• fix: Fix link in CONTRIBUTING.md
• fix: Fix prune of callback modules from AVM libs
• fix: Fix publish_docs workflow
• fix: Fix redundant link
• fix: Fix some small bugs in install.sh
• fix: Fix workflow for OTP 25
• fix: Fixed a bug in previous commit with term traversal.
• fix: Fixed a bug in pulling in dependent BEAM files based on the atoms table -- we need to string the index out of the atoms chunk.
• fix: Fixes a bug that prevented packbeam files that include priv files from being properly loaded.
• fix: Fixes the installation
• fix: Hotfix for installation with Homebrew
• fix: Merge pull request #50 from pguyot/w49/fix-lib-option
• fix: Merge pull request #53 from UncleGrumpy/doc-fix
• fix: Merge pull request #60 from petermm/fix-prune-callbacks
• fix: Merge pull request #9 from atomvm/fix-installer
• …and 109 more

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