[Gdal-dev] Tickets 2385 and 2683 (ECW and MrSID plugins)

[Micha Silver]

Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> 
> 2009/5/4 Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>
> 
>>
>> Actually, this support is present for windows binary distributions of
>> QGIS,
>> provided the user takes the steps described at the end of page
>> http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/qsig-for-windows
>> (mainly thanks to directions provided by Micha Silver) for example. But
>> the same type of solution does not exist for any binary distribution of
>> QGIS
>> for Linux.
>>
> 
> Agustin,
> 
> I have an impression that this is because the GDAL Windows builds support
> building ECW as a plugin but this is not the case with the linux builds by
> default, isn't it?
> 
> While I'm NOT a developer, I don't think that's strictly true. I think
> that the difference with Windows builds is simply that "someone" created a
> gdal binary with ecw and mrsid enabled. All you need is to add the erdas
> *.dll's to get it to work. And requires you to register (agreeing to their
> licence) to download the SDK.
> -- 
> Micha
> 
> 
> 
> By this means it would indeed be reasonable to establish the counterpart
> of
> this option (like Frank suggested by using a --with-ecw-as-plugin option)
> in
> the default configuration mechanism, but using a completely different
> compilation line would be quite undesired.
> 
> Feel free to open up a ticket in this topic, I hope someone will be able
> to
> take care of it (patches are welcomed).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tamas
> 
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