[Gdal-dev] gdal with ECW JPEG 2000 SDK v3.1

[Brent Fraser]

Frank,

   I've been trying to get gdal_translate to compress a 700gb tiff image to
ECW (on win2k).  This is greater than the 500gb limit imposed by the ECW SDK
prior to v3.0.  According to the ECW SDK v3.1 doc:

"If you wish to enable unlimited compression to the ECW or JPEG 2000 formats
(as permitted by the Public and Commercial Use License Agreements), you must
link your application with NCSEcwCu.lib instead of NCSEcwC.lib. "

So I linked gdal_translate with NCSEcwCu.lib and ran it to get the
following:

C:\gdal\gdal-1.2.6\apps>gdal_translate -of ECW  321fuse.tif 321fuse.ecw
Input file size is 17100, 15340
0.100 - done.
ERROR 4: `321fuse.ecw' does not exist in the file system,
and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.

But it works fine on images less than 500mb.  I compiled the
NCSSource_3.1rc1_18Feb05 version, but got the same result.

Have you tested gdal with the unlimited-compression ECW library?  Any other
things I need to do?

Thanks!
Brent Fraser