LibreDWG installation on Linux

GNU LibreDWG is a free C library to handle DWG files. It aims to be a free replacement for the OpenDWG libraries. DWG is the native file format of AutoCAD. GNU LibreDWG is based on LibDWG, originally written by Felipe Castro.

Requirements :-

git, autoconf, gcc, libtool, swig2.0, python-dev, texinfo, build-essentials

Installation:-

For debian based distros ( like ubuntu ) :-

$ sudo apt-get install git autoconf libtool swig python-dev texinfo build-essential gcc

#this will check if all dependencies are present other wise will download required ones.

Now clone LibreDWG using git :-

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/libredwg.git

Now change dir to libredwg folder created by git ( cd libredwg ) and issue following commands in terminal :-

$ sh autogen.sh 
$ ./configure --enable-trace # (this will enable debugging messages) 
$ make 
$ sudo make install 
$ make check

This will install LibreDWG on your system.

Testing:-

LibreDWG comes with several examples (under the examples folder) that can be used for testing purposes. The most advanced example is testSVG.

export LIBREDWG_TRACE=3 cd examples ./testSVG yourdwgfile.dwg > yourconverteddwgfile.svg

This will output a svg format file, containing the dwg data. Note that SVG doesn’t support 3D entities.