kakadusoftware

Downloadable Executables Copyright and Disclaimer

The executables available here are made available for demonstration purposes only. Neither the author, Dr. Taubman, nor the University of New South Wales accept any liability arising from their use or re-distribution.

Most of the executables here are compiled for 32-bit target platforms;64-bit binaries generally execute faster, but are less generic in the sense that a 64-bit OS is required. Binaries compiled against the new Kakadu Speed-Pack execute much faster again. For example execution speeds, refer to the tables here.

Copyright is owned by NewSouth Innovations Pty Limited, commercial arm of the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. You are free to trial these executables and even to re-distribute them, so long as such use or re-distribution is accompanied with this copyright notice and is not for commercial gain. Note: Binaries can only be used for non-commercial purposes. If in doubt please contact Dr. Taubman.

Notice: By clicking on the download links on this page you are acknowledging and accepting these terms and conditions.

Win32 Download:
(current with Version 7.2 -- Last updated 21 January 2013)
WIN32 Executables (Windows XP, Vista, ... maybe others)

Built using Visual Studio 2010, with a single shared dynamic library, kdu_v72R.dll. Installs an application folder containing the demo apps and the core DLL along with relevant entries in the start menu, then runs a program to add the application folder to your executable path environment, so that all tools can also be run easily from the command line -- uninstallation will clean everything up, including modifications to the executable path environment.
Note: the install script installs Kakadu only for the current (installing) user; moreover, to ensure that path modifications are seen correctly you should at least log out and log back in again after installation.

Additional note: Unfortunately, Windows systems require you to explicitly uninstall any earlier copy of the Kakadu demo apps first. This can be done via the "Control Panel", under the "Add/Remove Programs" item (or the "Programs and Features" item). Earlier versions of this install script accidentally omitted some of the redistributable dependencies so that they may have failed to install on your system; moreover, even the uninstall operation might then fail to run, and this is a necessary precursor to installing the new executables (catch-22 for the Windows user). To recover from this problem, one solution is to edit the registry (run "regedit") and find (ctrl-F) and delete (DEL key) all keys which contain "kdu_". This is a bit tedious, but it works.

Mac Download:
(current with Version 7.2 -- Last updated 21 January 2013)

OSX 10.7 - (Lion and Mountain Lion)

OSX 10.5 - (Kakadu V7.1 Leopard and Snow Leopard)

Built with XCODE under OS 10.7 SDK, with a single shared library, libkdu_v72R.dylib. Installs the command line executables in /usr/bin, the core system shared library in /usr/lib and the "kdu_show" application for the MAC in /Applications. Also contained here is a copy of the "kdu_shows" application that is identical to "kdu_show" except that it is statically built so that it can be run directly without any installation at all. 

Note: it is possible that an older version of "kdu_show" may interfere with the registration of the new "kdu_show" as a protocol handler for "jpip://..." URL's or as a viewer for various JPEG2000 images. If you experience any problems like this, move any existing copies of "kdu_show" to the trash and also delete all entries starting with "kdu" from the "/Library/Receipts" folder (just to be on the safe side) before re-installing.

Linux Download:
(current with Version 7.2 -- Last updated 21 January 2013)

Linux Executables

Build using gcc version 4.6.1 on Ubuntu Linux, with a single shared library, libkdu_v72R.so. Be sure to read the "README.txt" file embedded in this zip file. 

Note: these do not include the "kdu_show" application, which involves some platform dependent code.

Solaris Download:
(current with Version 6.3.1 -- Kakadu software is not currently producing demo applications on Solaris however the software will still support this platform for future versions)

Solaris Executables

Built using gcc version 3.2.3 under Solaris 8 for Sparc v9, and dynamically linked against the standard C++ libaries.

These executables all share a single dynamic (shared) library, libkdu_v63R.so. Be sure to include the location of libkdu_v63R.so in your dynamic linking path by setting the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH appropriately (and exporting it if necessary).

Note: these do not include the "kdu_show" application which includes some platform dependent code.

Other Platforms:
The Kakadu software tools are platform independent.

Only some aspects of the interactive "kdu_show" application contain platform-specific elements, but that's all. Even in this application, all of the interesting tasks are performed by platform-independent code.

Developers should find the tools equally useful regardless of their preferred development or target platform.

Licensed copies of the source come with Makefiles which have been tested on a variety of platforms with gcc.

Licensed copies also come with a full set of Java native bindings, allowing platform dependent aspects of a viewer or networked application to be abstracted in Java, without sacrificing the power and speed of Kakadu. Licensed copies also come with a full set of bindings for C# and VB developers.

 
   
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