[Qgis-developer] ECW reading for OSX now possible

[William Kyngesburye]

Someone finally responded to the ECW Forums with a small patch that  
enables the ECW SDK to read ECW images on OSX 10.4.  I still get  
errors trying to write ECW images, but it's a start.  Reading and  
writing JP2s with the ECW SDK works.

I built a plugin for my GDAL framework and it's available for  
download on my frameworks page.

If anyone wants to build the ECW SDK on OSX on their own, this forum  
topic summarizes past patches from other topics and includes details  
on the latest patch:

http://forums.ermapper.com/viewtopic.php?t=2446

If any Mac programmers (I'm not much of a C++ programmer, I just  
tinker) have any ideas on the write problem, please help out by  
posting to the ER forum in that topic.

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