[Qgis-user] Help installing ECW plugin for Mac?
William Kyngesburye
woklist at kyngchaos.com
Sun Feb 8 18:37:33 PST 2015
I checked out the new ECW SDK and it looks like it won't work with the current GDAL-ECW plugin. I just rebuilt the plugin, so download the new GDAL-ECW plugin.
On Feb 8, 2015, at 7:55 PM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> The /Library folder where you need to move the ECW library files to is hidden by default. It's easy to get into it (I guess I tend to skip the obvious bits) - from your desktop, Go menu, Go to folder, type in /Library. From there you can browse to the folder mentioned in the Readme.
>
> The newer version shouldn't matter as far as installation goes. But it could be a problem at runtime, if the API has changed.
>
> On Feb 8, 2015, at 6:41 PM, yanoff at tularosa.net wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am having trouble installing the ECW plugin on a Mac OS X 10.7.5. QGIS
>> 2.6.1-2 and the GDAL 1.11 framework are already installed.
>>
>> I downloaded the ECW plugin v1.11.0-1 from kyngchaos
>> (http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#gdal_complete) and installed
>> it. The Readme for the plugin says that the ECW SDK must then be installed.
>> I downloaded ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK v. 5.2.1 (MAC OSX) from Intergraph
>> (http://download.intergraph.com/download-portal). I installed it. The
>> Readme has instructions for copying files and folders to complete this
>> installation. But I am not able to find the files and folders to copy on my
>> Mac.
>>
>> I noticed that the ECW SDK download link - ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK v. 5.2.1 (MAC
>> OSX) - seems more current than the download file specified in the Readme -
>> ERDAS ECW/JPEG2000. So maybe that has something to do with it?
>>
>> Anyway, can anyone give me simple, updated instructions how to install the
>> ECW plugin and ECW SDK for QGIS 2.6.1-2, and ? Also, if I need to uninstall
>> the plugin and ECW SDK that I already installed first, I do not know how.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Steven Yanoff
>>
>>
>>
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