[gdal-dev] Is BigTIFF supported on GDAL 1.5.3?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniele Romagnoli wrote:
> Hi list,
> I have a simple quick question:
> Is BigTIFF supported on GDAL 1.5.3?

Daniele,

BigTIFF is supported by all versions of GDAL since 1.5.0 as long
as you build with libtiff4.  The internal version of libtiff in GDAL 1.5.0
and later is libtiff4 so building --with-libtiff=internal will do the
trick.

You can confirm your build supports BigTIFF by checking for the BIGTIFF
option in the output of "gdalinfo --format gtiff".  It should look like this:

   <Option name="BIGTIFF" type="boolean" description="Force creation of BigTIFF 
file"/>

Best regards,
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