[Gdal-dev] ecw support under linux

[Frank Warmerdam]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 04:35:35 +0100, Piero Cavalieri
<pierocavalieri at tiscali.it> wrote:
> In ERMapper site, I didn't find linux packages.
> Is there a way to have .ecw support via gdal, under linux ?

Piero, 

It is not possible to get ECW support on linux at this time; however, my
undestanding is that a source release of the ECW SDK is coming out 
soon and when that happens we should have little trouble porting it to 
Linux and using it with GDAL.

Best regards,
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