[Qgis-user] 161103 - ecw support for QGIS 2.16 on Mac OS Sierra.

[William Kyngesburye]

There's only the one library file, but it needs to go into the 2.1 GDAL folder, not 1.11:

/Library/Application Support/GDAL/2.1/Libraries/libNCSEwc.dylib

> On Nov 3, 2016, at 6:35 AM, DelazJ <delazj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 2016-11-03 12:02 GMT+01:00 Paul T A Drea <pauldrea at gmail.com>:
> All,
> 
> I am running macOS Sierra v10.12.1 on a MacBook Pro.
> 
> I have been running the stand alone installation of QGIS 2.14.3 with ecw support successfully in the past.
> 
> I downloaded and installed QGIS 2.16.3 from www.kyngchaos.com with all the associated packages. This has GDAL 2.1
> 
> I also downloaded ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK v 5.2.1 and copied the file libNCSEcw.dylib to the following location as instructed:
> 
> Library/Application Support/GDAL/1.11/Libraries/libNCSEwc.dylib
> 
> 
> If I recall well, there's more than only this file to move in the readme.
> I do not have Sierra but QGIS 2.16 can read ecw files following Kyngchaos guidelines pn El Capitan.
> 
> Regards,
> Harrissou 
> On starting QGIS and loading a project with an ecw image I get a message informing me that the image is not a supported raster type.
> 
> Unfortunately I am not a programmer just an end user. There are 6 of us on a mix of Windows, Linux and Mac OS systems using QGIS.
> 
> This problem only seems to affect Mac users after upgrading to QGIS 2.16.x.
> 
> I am obviously missing something here, can anyone help please.
> 
> Thanks in advance and BR.
> 
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