---
name: "coin_environment_variables"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "coin"
version: "1:4.0.10-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/coin_environment_variables"
---

# coin\_environment\_variables(3)

Environment variables Debug related: Font/Text rendering related: Runtime linking related: Sound related: Texture control related: Rendering (OpenGL) related: Caching related: Tessellation related: NURBS related: Work around driver bugs: Others:

## NAME

coin\_environment\_variables - Environment variables

Debug related:

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_3DS**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_ASSERT\_SOBASE\_SETNAME**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_AUDIO**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_BINARY\_INPUT**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_BREAK**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_CACHING**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_CLEANUP**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_DL**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_EXTRA**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_FLATTEN\_NODEKITS\_ON\_WRITE**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_FONTSUPPORT**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_GLGLUE**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_GLRENDER\_TRAVERSAL**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_GLUNURBSSURFACE**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_GLU\_INFO**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_GLU\_VERSION**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_IMPORT**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_INTERSECTIONDETECTIONACTION**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_LISTMODULES**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_MUTEXLOCK\_MAXTIME**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_MUTEXLOCK\_TIMING**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_MUTEX\_COUNT**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_NORMALIZE**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_NPRINTF**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_NURBS\_COMPLEXITY**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_ROOT\_NOTIFICATIONS**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SIMAGE**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SOEXTSELECTION**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SOFILE\_READ**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SOINPUT\_FINDFILE**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SOOFFSCREENRENDERER**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SOOFFSCREENRENDERER\_TILEPREFIX**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_SPIDERMONKEY\_BINDING**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_STRING\_GROW**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_TRACK\_SOBASE\_INSTANCES**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_VBO**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_VRMLSCRIPT**

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  **COIN\_DEBUG\_WRITEREFS**

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  **COIN\_GLERROR\_DEBUGGING**

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  **COIN\_RANDOMIZE\_RENDER\_CACHING**

Font/Text rendering related:

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  **COIN\_FONT\_PATH**

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  **COIN\_FONTCONFIG\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_FORCE\_FONTCONFIG\_OFF**

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  **COIN\_FREETYPE2\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_FORCE\_FREETYPE\_OFF**

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  **COIN\_FORCE\_WIN32FONTS\_OFF**

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  **COIN\_DISABLE\_UTF8**

Runtime linking related:

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  **COIN\_BZIP2\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_CG\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_FONTCONFIG\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_FREETYPE2\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_GLU\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_OPENAL\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_SIMAGE\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_SPIDERMONKEY\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_ZLIB\_LIBNAME**

Sound related:

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  **COIN\_OPENAL\_LIBNAME**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_BUFFER\_LENGTH**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_DISABLE**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_DRIVER\_NAME**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_ENABLE**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_INTRO\_PAUSE**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_NUM\_BUFFERS**

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  **COIN\_SOUND\_THREAD\_SLEEP\_TIME**

Texture control related:

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  **COIN\_MAXIMUM\_TEXTURE2\_SIZE**

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  **COIN\_MAXIMUM\_TEXTURE3\_SIZE**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_ANISOTROPIC\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_LINEAR\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_LINEAR\_MIPMAP\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_MIPMAP\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_SCALEUP\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_USE\_GLTEXSUBIMAGE**

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  **COIN\_TEX2\_USE\_SGIS\_GENERATE\_MIPMAP**

Rendering (OpenGL) related:

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  **COIN\_AGLGLUE\_NO\_PBUFFERS**

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  **COIN\_CGLGLUE\_NO\_PBUFFERS**

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  **COIN\_GLXGLUE\_NO\_PBUFFERS**

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  **COIN\_GLXGLUE\_NO\_GLX13\_PBUFFERS**

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  **COIN\_GLX\_PIXMAP\_DIRECT\_RENDERING**

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  **COIN\_WGLGLUE\_NO\_PBUFFERS**

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  **COIN\_ALLOW\_SPIDERMONKEY**

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  **COIN\_DONT\_MANGLE\_OUTPUT\_NAMES**

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  **COIN\_ENABLE\_CONFORMANT\_GL\_CLAMP**

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  **COIN\_EXTSELECTION\_SAVE\_OFFSCREENBUFFER**

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  **COIN\_FORCE\_TILED\_OFFSCREENRENDERING**

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  **COIN\_GLBBOX**

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  **COIN\_HANDLE\_STACK\_OVERFLOW**

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  **COIN\_NORMALIZATION\_CUBEMAP\_SIZE**

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  **COIN\_NOT\_STRICT\_VRML97**

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  **COIN\_NO\_SOTYPE\_DYNLOAD**

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  **OIV\_NUM\_SORTED\_LAYERS\_PASSES**

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  **COIN\_NUM\_SORTED\_LAYERS\_PASSES**

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  **COIN\_OFFSCREENRENDERER\_MAX\_TILESIZE**

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  **COIN\_OFFSCREENRENDERER\_TILEHEIGHT**

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  **COIN\_OFFSCREENRENDERER\_TILEWIDTH**

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  **COIN\_OFFSCREEN\_STENCIL\_BITS**

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  **COIN\_OLDSTYLE\_FORMATTING**

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  **COIN\_QUADMESH\_PRECISE\_LIGHTING**

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  **COIN\_SEPARATE\_DIFFUSE\_TRANSPARENCY\_OVERRIDE**

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  **COIN\_SOINPUT\_SEARCH\_GLOBAL\_DICT**

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  **COIN\_SOOFFSCREENRENDERER\_ALLOW\_RESOURCEHOG**

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  **COIN\_SORTED\_LAYERS\_USE\_NVIDIA\_RC**

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  **COIN\_VBO\_MAX\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_VBO\_MIN\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_VERTEX\_ARRAYS**

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  **COIN\_VIEWUP**

Caching related:

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  **COIN\_AUTOCACHE\_LOCAL\_MAX**

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  **COIN\_AUTOCACHE\_LOCAL\_MIN**

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  **COIN\_AUTOCACHE\_REMOTE\_MAX**

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  **COIN\_AUTOCACHE\_REMOTE\_MIN**

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  **COIN\_AUTOCACHE\_VBO\_LIMIT**

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  **COIN\_AUTO\_CACHING**

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  **COIN\_NESTED\_CACHING**

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  **COIN\_SMART\_CACHING**

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  **IV\_SEPARATOR\_MAX\_CACHES**

Tessellation related:

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  **COIN\_GLU\_SILENCE\_TESS\_COMBINE\_WARNING**

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  **COIN\_PREFER\_GLU\_TESSELLATOR**

NURBS related:

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  **COIN\_CALCULATE\_NURBS\_NORMALS**

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  **COIN\_OLD\_NURBS\_COMPLEXITY**

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  **COIN\_REDUCE\_LINEAR\_NURBS\_STEPS**

Work around driver bugs:

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  **COIN\_DONT\_INFORM\_INDIRECT\_RENDERING**

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  **COIN\_DONT\_USE\_FBO**

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  **COIN\_FORCE\_AGL**

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  **COIN\_FORCE\_GL1\_0\_ONLY**

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  **COIN\_FULL\_INDIRECT\_RENDERING**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_DISABLE\_NON\_POWER\_OF\_TWO\_TEXTURES**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_DISABLE\_PALETTED\_TEXTURE**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_DISABLE\_VBO\_IN\_DISPLAYLIST**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_NO\_ELSA\_WARNING**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_NO\_G400\_WARNING**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_NO\_RADEON\_WARNING**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_NO\_SUN\_EXPERT3D\_WARNING**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_NO\_TRIDENT\_WARNING**

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  **COIN\_GLGLUE\_SILENCE\_DRIVER\_WARNINGS**

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  **COIN\_GL\_DISABLE\_VBO**

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  **COIN\_GL\_NO\_CURRENT\_CONTEXT\_CHECK**

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  **COIN\_NO\_NVIDIA\_COLOR\_PER\_FACE\_BUG\_WORKAROUND**

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  **COIN\_PREFER\_GLPOLYGONOFFSET\_EXT**

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  **COIN\_VBO**

Others:

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  **COINDIR**

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  **SO\_DRAGGER\_DIR**

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  **SO\_SHADER\_DIR**

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  **WINDIR**
