ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK v5.4 Update 1 for MacOSX

ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK provides support for reading and writing ECW and JPEG2000 file formats in third-party applications. The product is licensed according to intended use – see Licensing in the ERDAS ECW JP2 SDK User Guide for more information.

This full installer includes:

• ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-only
• ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Desktop Read-write
• ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Server Read-only End-user
• ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Server Read-only Redistributable
• ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Server Read-write
• ERDAS ECW/JP2 SDK Mobile Read-only

Prerequisites

• Supported platform of the ECW/JP2 SDK

Install Instructions

• View the ERDAS ECW JP2 SDK User Guide

Selected Highlights 

• Addressed vulnerability FG-VD-19-015 reported by Fortinet.
• Modified JP2 output of RGB + extra bands to not write a colour definition (CDEF) box which allows Kakadu to correctly decode the image.
• Add support to ECW Header Editor to remove CDEF box for JP2 files specified above.
• Fixed reference counting to be more accurate for ECW cache.
• Fixed conflict on Linux with TinyXml symbols.
• Fixed issue where the low memory encoder, may call input tiles multiple times.
• Fixed CBlockingDecoder throwing exception in constructor.
• NCSOpenFileView failed on specific ECW file on Visual Studio 2017 x64 build, fixed with MSVC 141 update (optimization issue).
• Missing headers from Mac and Linux install (NCSStringUtils.h and NCSXmlUtils.h).
• Updated XCode projects to correct target build directory.
• Resolve output warning in CPacket::ParseHeader when decoding j2k conformance file.
• Resolve issue where SPOT JP2 files were not returning the correct EPSG code.
• Fixed crash in cexample7, fixed occasional read error in cexample6.

Resources

• Licensing information
• Hexagon Geospatial Community