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Description:
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 1.28.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | @Enlightenment | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: gui library enlightenment graphics development

Install: brew install efl

About:
The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a collection of libraries for building graphical user interfaces. They provide a comprehensive toolkit for creating efficient, visually rich applications across various platforms. This package is essential for developing and running software within the Enlightenment desktop environment.

Key Features:

Evas: Canvas library for hardware-accelerated 2D scene graph
Edje: Flexible graphical layout and animation engine
Ecore: Event-driven main loop and concurrency utilities

Use Cases:

Building the Enlightenment desktop environment and its components
Developing standalone graphical applications with custom UIs
Creating embedded system interfaces with low resource overhead

Alternatives:

Qt – Qt is a larger, more comprehensive C++ framework, whereas EFL is written in C and focuses on extreme efficiency and modularity.

License: GPL-2.0-only AND LGPL-2.1-only AND BSD-2-Clause AND FTL AND zlib-acknowledgement

Dependencies: bullet, cairo, dbus, fontconfig, freetype, fribidi, gettext, giflib, glib, gstreamer, harfbuzz, jpeg-turbo, libpng, libraw, librsvg, libsndfile, libspectre, libtiff, luajit, lz4, openjpeg, openssl@3, poppler, pulseaudio, shared-mime-info, webp, mesa

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 16, 2025 6:47am	0	VERSION_BUMP	7acfa9e8
Jan 12, 2025 1:35pm	0	VERSION_BUMP	c4ef3510
Jan 3, 2025 9:36am	2	VERSION_BUMP	3dd24d22
Nov 19, 2024 12:37am	1	VERSION_BUMP	f3fa2bdb
Nov 9, 2024 5:56am	1	VERSION_BUMP	cb3b9504
Nov 8, 2024 9:07am	1	VERSION_BUMP	8ff3b9d2
Sep 13, 2024 11:44pm	0	VERSION_BUMP	b0094708