= gdal16-ecw =

 * Plugin for ECW and JPEG2000 Raster Formats for GDAL 1.6
 * Requires gdal16 and manually-installed ECW 3.3 Runtime libraries
 * Maintainer is FrankWarmerdam

== Installing ECW SDK ==

The GDAL ECW Plugin requires the ECW 3.3 Runtime library, which was distributed by ERDAS, but is no longer available for download (see [wiki:pkg-gdal17-ecw] for newer version that is available for download from ERDAS). In order to use the runtime libraries, the end user is required to install the DLLs into a system directory. E.g., for 32-bit versions of Windows, this is {{{C:\Windows\system32}}}, and for 64-bit versions this directory is {{{C:\Windows\SysWOW64}}}.

See the [wiki:pkg-gdal-ecw] for details on how to manually install the ECW SDK.  The underlying SDK only needs to be installed once for both the gdal-ecw and gda16-ecw plugins.