Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of pkg-gdal-ecw

Timestamp:

Oct 20, 2010, 11:37:08 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

Mike Taves

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pkg-gdal-ecw

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 = gdal-ecw =
 
- * Plugin for ECW and JPEG2000 Raster Formats.
- * Requires gdal
+ * Plugin for ECW and JPEG2000 Raster Formats
+ * Requires gdal and manually-installed ECW 3.3 Runtime libraries
  * Includes bug fix for [http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2320 GDAL ticket 2320] so that both ECW and JP2ECW drivers are registered.
- * Maintainer is FrankWarmerdam.
+ * Maintainer is FrankWarmerdam
 
 == Installing ECW SDK ==
 
-The GDAL ECW Plugin requires the ECW 3.3 Runtime libraries which the end user is required to download and install directly from the Erdas Web Site directly. 
+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.
 
-Erdas Web Site: http://www.erdas.com/Products/ERDASProductInformation/tabid/84/currentid/1142/default.aspx
+ERDAS Web Site: http://www.erdas.com/Products/ERDASProductInformation/tabid/84/currentid/1142/default.aspx
 
-After installation, please copy the .dll files in the redistributable\vc71 directory somewhere appropriate, like C:\windows\system32. 
- 
-eg. 
+After installation, please copy the DLL files from the {{{redistributable\vc71}}} directory to somewhere appropriate, like {{{C:\windows\system32}}}, or {{{C:\Windows\SysWOW64}}} for 64-bit Windows.
+
+E.g.:
 {{{
-copy C:\"Program Files\Earth Resource Mapping\ECW SDK\redistributable\vc71\*.dll" C:\windows\system32
+copy "C:\Program Files\Earth Resource Mapping\ECW SDK\redistributable\vc71\*.dll" C:\windows\system32
 }}}