[gdal-dev] Revisiting ecw

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2018-03-13 5:24 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Hexagon released ECW SDK 5.4 [1] with support for the CXX11 ABI, which
> 
> makes it compatible with gcc >= 5.1 with its default ABI.
> 
> I've just added support in configure in trunk and 2.2 branch to detect if we
> 
> must link against the libNCSEcw with the newabi or the one with the oldabi
> 
> Note: I've found that if you also link against the Teigha libraries, the 
> ECW driver
> 
> tends to crash. The joy of combining two proprietary closed-source SDKs...
> 
> Even
> 
> [1] 
> https://download.hexagongeospatial.com/downloads/ecw/erdas-ecw-jp2-sdk-v5-4-linux
> 

Thank you Even (and also for updating the buildhint notes, you beat me 
to it https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ECW).

-jeff