# coin3d mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für coin3d in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:coin3d
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install coin3d
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#coin3d
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/coin3d/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:coin3d
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 4.0.10
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Open Inventor 2.1 API implementation (Coin)
- **Homepage:** <https://coin3d.github.io/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/coin3d/coin>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-22T14:03:03-07:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- coin-config (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 4.0.10
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Coin is the core Coin3D library, an OpenGL-based C++ 3D graphics library implementing the Open Inventor 2.1 API.

### Projektgeschichte

The official README says Coin began in 1995 as a scene graph rendering library for VRML 1.0 scenes, initially based on SGI's Qv parser. After several years of VRML-related extensions, the project was redesigned around an Open Inventor-like API and named Coin.

Coin reached Open Inventor 2.1 compatibility in autumn 2000. Its maintainers describe it as an independently developed implementation, not a code-sharing derivative of SGI Open Inventor.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Coin occupied a practical niche for scientific and engineering visualization software that wanted Open Inventor source compatibility on free software platforms.

The project later became the core of the broader Coin3D family of libraries and continued across Linux, Windows/Cygwin, and macOS development environments.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers link against Coin as a C++ library for retained-mode scene graphs, Open Inventor compatibility, VRML-related formats, and OpenGL rendering. The package also installs coin-config for build integration.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Coin matters to packagers because it is an ABI-sensitive C++ graphics library. The README documents major/minor/micro compatibility rules and notes that Unix shared libraries use ABI-versioned libCoin names so different major runtimes can coexist.

### Zeitleiste

- 1995: Project starts as a VRML 1.0 scene graph rendering library.
- 1997: Maintainers begin a fundamental redesign toward an Open Inventor-style API.
- 2000: Coin reaches Open Inventor 2.1 compatibility.
- 2007: Maintainers move toward date-based release cycles while preserving ABI-based versioning.
- 2019: Coin 4.0.0 is released with API changes to improve Open Inventor 2.1 conformance.

### Related projects

- The official README positions Coin alongside other Open Inventor implementations and notes the wider Coin3D library family built around the core Coin library.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/coin3d/coin>
- <https://github.com/coin3d/coin/wiki>
- <https://coin3d.github.io/Coin/html>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - coin3d: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/coin3d/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/coin3d.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/coin3d.yml)


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- pkg.so package database
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- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph