The executables available here are made available for demonstration purposes only. Neither the author, Professor Taubman, nor Kakadu Software Pty Ltd accept any liability arising from their use or re-distribution. These may not be deployed in any system, project nor used to compress or decompress imagery other than to demonstrate the software. You need to contact the Kakadu Team if you wish to use these executables in your library, business or in any other manner.
The executables here are compiled for 64-bit target platforms; 32-bit binaries can be built from licensed copies of the SDK. Binaries compiled against the Kakadu Speed Pack execute significantly faster. For example execution speeds, refer to the tables here ,but note that those results are only for traditional JPEG 2000 — the HT (High Throughput JPEG 2000) implementation is much faster again.
Copyright is owned by Kakadu Software Pty Limited, based in Sydney. 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. These are for provided for demonstration purposes only and any other use requires a licence from Kakadu Software Pty Ltd. If in doubt please contact the Kakadu Team at sales@kakadusoftware.com.
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Win64 Download
(current with Version 8.4.1 — Last updated 20 November 2023)
Build using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 for 64-bit windows. Kakadu ships with build environments for MSVC 2015, 2017 and 2019 and should build on any recent version of Visual Studio. This build should at least run on Windows 7 and above.
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).
Mac Download
(current with Version 8.4.1 — Last updated 20 November 2023)
Built using Xcode 12 for MacOS Monterey and above.
Note: The disk image, installer and executables are all Developer-signed and notarized.
Current and future versions of these executables are installed under /Library/Kakadu and can be fully uninstalled by running “sudo sh uninstall.sh” from the Terminal.app within the relevant sub-directory.
Linux Download
(current with Version 8.4.1 — Last updated 20 November 2023)
Built on Centos 7 using GCC 4.8.5
Note: these do not include the “kdu_show” application, which involves 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.
Notice: Copyrights on all original content held by Dr. David Taubman all rights reserved.