Installing Coin3D For Mac

Coin 3D is a high-level 3D graphics toolkit for developing cross-platform real-time 3D visualization and visual simulation software. Install Qt before start with the installation.

Details

Download the latest realese of Coin3D, currently Coin3D-3.1.3, from the Coin3D website at http://www.coin3d.org/lib/plonesoftwarecenter_view. Place it into the desktop.

Open a shell console and navigate to desktop and extract the archive by typing:

tar xvf Coin-3.1.3.tar

This will create a directory called Coin-3.1.3 in your user directory. Using the shell navigate to just created directory. First create release libraries by typing:

./configure --enable-debug=no --without-framework

This will start the configuration process. Depending on your computer, this process may take some time to finish. To solve an error in the compilation open SoVertexArrayIndexer.cpp at Coin-3.1.3/src/misc and replace

const int32_t * src = this->indexarray.getArrayPtr();

by

const int32_t * src = (const int32_t *) this->indexarray.getArrayPtr();

When it does, install the coin libraries by typing:

make 
make install

At the end of the installation process, the libraries hab been installed at /usr/local directory. Now, SoQt installation can be started.

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