[Gdal-dev] GDAL and ECW

[jteasis]

Well I fixed those 4 changes that i saw in the bin file, but still have the
same errors. Would any other problems cause the error?

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 
> jteasis wrote:
>> When I tried to compile the NCSEcw it gives me two types of errors. 
>> 1. Error	1	error C2059: syntax error : '<L_TYPE_raw>'
>> 2. Error	2	error C2238: unexpected token(s) preceding ';'
>> 
>> I am compiling it on Visual Studio 2008 on Windows XP. Do you or anybody
>> know the reasons for the errors. There are like 4 for each error.
> 
> Yes, it's a very well-known issue that the ECW code is ugly and
> and far from being portable.
> 
> 
> Similar issues were discussed on the list and reported:
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1347
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2032
> 
> Basically, types like UINT32 are not defined as well as plenty of extra 
> qualifications around is used (ie. CNCSJPCBuffer::) in the code.
> It's been patched [1] and reported [2] directly to ER Mapper
> (and big thanks we got for that) but fixed version of code of
> the library were never released by ECW implementor.
> That's a shame, but we have to live with that, so I'd suggest you
> to try to apply Daniel's patch [1]. It's a big patch, as the code is
> broken in many places :-)
> 
> End of the Rant.
> 
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-March/011943.html
> [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-March/011944.html
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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