macOS
brew install libredwgprovider-native install command
brew / Rang 2837
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für libredwg in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
brew install libredwgprovider-native install command
Überblick
DWG utilities
Verlauf
GNU LibreDWG is a GPLv3-or-later C library and command-line tool set for reading and writing AutoCAD DWG files. Its package-manager value is straightforward: it gives free software systems a scriptable DWG decoder/encoder and conversion utilities without relying on proprietary OpenDWG/ODA libraries.
The GNU project page describes LibreDWG as a free replacement for OpenDWG libraries and says it is based on LibDWG, originally written by Felipe Castro. The manual records the project lineage more specifically: LibreDWG came out of code from the QCad Community Edition product from RibbonSoft, and the old libdwg code was forked to LibreDWG in 2009.
LibreDWG's long-running engineering problem is that DWG is proprietary. The manual states that the format had to be reverse-engineered and that, for LibreDWG 0.13.4 dated March 17, 2026, coverage was approximately 99%, with reading support across many DWG revisions and writing support still more constrained for newer formats.
LibreDWG has mattered most to CAD, GIS, and document-conversion users who need batchable access to DWG data in free software environments. The manual names FreeCAD and GRASS GIS as projects using DWG or specifically LibreDWG, and mentions plans around SolveSpace, LibreCAD, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, and PythonCAD.
Its adoption has been cautious because DWG compatibility is a moving target and because writing newer DWG versions is harder than reading them. That niche, however, is exactly why distributions package it: even partial DWG support is valuable when users need automated inspection, conversion, text search, layer listing, SVG/PostScript output, DXF, JSON, or GeoJSON workflows.
Packaged users usually encounter LibreDWG through tools such as dwgread, dwgwrite, dwgrewrite, dwg2dxf, dxf2dwg, dwg2SVG, dwggrep, and dwglayers, or by linking C programs against libredwg. The manual explicitly notes that programs should link with -lredwg, because the shared object is named libredwg and -llibredwg would look for a non-existent liblibredwg.
LibreDWG is a classic package-nerd package: legally and technically difficult format support, a GNU maintenance story, CLI utilities, reverse-engineered coverage tables, and bindings/converters that unblock other packages. It is also a reminder that data-liberation libraries often ship as humble formulae even when their underlying work is years of file-format archaeology.
Sicherheitslage
Für libredwg wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
dwg2SVG | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwg2dxf | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwgadd | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwgbmp | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwgfilter | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwggrep | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwglayers | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwgread | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwgrewrite | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dwgwrite | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dxf2dwg | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
dxfwrite | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Installationsmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:libredwg |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.13.3 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg/ |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Quellspur
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
View the package source record on GitHub.