[Qgis-user] MrSID on QGIS 2.6.,1, Mac OSK 10.10.1

[Randal Hale]

So I just had some fun trying to get this to work - I thought I would 
share...and I have no clue if this should go to the GDAL list or 
what....but...

Warning - I stink at scripting complicated things. I do enjoy stupid vi 
tricks.

1. Installed libgdal_mrsid_src-1.9.0-2_oneiric on trusty.
2. I had a copy of the MrSid 8.5 DSDK - so I ran with that.
3. Tried - sudo gdal-build-mrsid 
$HOME/MrSID_DSDK-8.5.0.3422-linux.x86-64.gcc44 - didn't work. I think 
because I ultimately installed the wrong deb. BUT - I'm not enjoying 
launchpad like I should.
4. Downloaded the libgdal-mrsid_1.9.0-2~oneiric1.tar.gz file and decided 
to start working with that....
5. Uncompressed that file and edited the gdal-mrsid-build.ln file

  *   it wants to create a directory  /usr/lib/gdalplugins/1.9 . Changed
    that to /usr/lib/gdalplugins/1.11
  * Changed all references to lt_base.h to include the path Raster_DSDK
    - Example:

/if [ ! -f "$GEOEXPRESSSDK/Raster_DSDK/include/lt_base.h" -o `grep 
'LT_BASE_H' "$GEOEXPRESSSDK/Raster_DSDK/include/lt_base.h" |wc -l` -eq 0 
]; then/

  * Changed all references in the files contained in
    libgdal-mrsid-1.9.0.tar.gz (since that gets copied to /usr/src
  * Scripts look for jpeg2000 support in the Lizardtech downloads -
    removed all references to libltikdu.a because it doesn't seem to be
    in the SDK.
  * errored out looking for:  libgeotiff is required to build GDAL MrSID
    driver

I haven't given up yet - but decided to take a break and keep making 
notes. There is a brand new Sid SDK out - version 9 but I didn't want to 
try that one..... yet.

Randy "too stubborn to not want to live the dream of reading a sid file 
on linux" Hale.

On 12/08/2014 10:12 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Le lundi 08 décembre 2014 16:05:08, William Kyngesburye a écrit :
>> I don't do linux, but I'm sure it's possible - the MrSID SDK exists for
>> linux.  I use a simple custom makefile to make it as a GDAL plugin, using
>> an installed GDAL.  Ask on the GDAL mailing list, someone may have already
>> done it.
> --> For Ubuntu with UbuntuGIS PPA :
> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/TutorialMrSid
>
>> On Dec 8, 2014, at 8:17 AM, Randal Hale <rjhale at northrivergeographic.com>
> wrote:
>>> !!
>>>
>>> Is there a way to port this to Linux as we are now the odd man
>>> out......and Sid files drive me an extra 6 minutes and about 6.5 GB of
>>> difficulty every time I run into one.
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>>> On 12/07/2014 11:03 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>>> Check my site.  The GDAL framework that you should have installed also
>>>> has a separately downloadable plugin for the MrSID format.
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 7, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Dave Peterson <davep at iit.edu> wrote:
>>>>> I need to be able to display MrSID files made available by the state
>>>>> GIS department.  I had them running on QGIS 1.8, OSX 10.6.8, but I’m
>>>>> not sure what I did back then.  Have searched the Web as best I can
>>>>> and haven’t found any instructions for current QGIS with a current OS.
>>>>>   Can anyone help?
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems to me at one point I saw some directions for getting 1.4 to read
>>>>> MrSID, but I can’t find them.  I’m doing GIS volunteer work for Mass
>>>>> Audubon Society, and a lot of their raster stuff is MrSID.  (They use
>>>>> ArcGIS; I can’t afford it.) --
>>>>> Dave Peterson
>>>>>
>>>>> davep at iit.edu
>> -----
>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>
>> "This is a question about the past, is it? ... How can I tell that the past
>> isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my
>> immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?"
>>
>> - The Ruler of the Universe
>>
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