[Ubuntu] MrSID

[Alan Boudreault]

Hi Kris,

A bug with MrSID plugin and gdal has been reported today. I'll have to 
investigate in that as soon as possible.

Sorry about the inconveniences caused.

Thanks,
Alan

Here's the bug report:

Bill Kristan wrote:
> Hi Alan - I know there's at least one other user following this thread, so 
> I'll make my progress report on the list...
>
> Your instructions worked great, I managed to get the plugin installed.
>
> The next problem is that when I try to run either r.in.gdal or gdal_translate 
> I get an "undefined symbol" error
>
> gdal_translate: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gdal16plugins/gdal_MrSID.so: 
> undefined symbol: _ZN12LTIVSIStreamC1Ev
>
> The configure output (and the command I used) is here:
>
> root at wkristanlt:/home/bill# gdal-mrsid-build /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0
>
> grep: /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include/support/lt_base.h: No such file or 
> directory
> Extracting GDAL/MrSID tarball
> Building GDAL/MrSID plugin
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for g++ -shared ... yes
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> using /usr/lib/gdal16plugins as GDAL shared library autoload directory
> checking for lt_base.h in /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include/support... not 
> found.
> checking for lt_base.h in /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include... found MrSID DSDK 
> version 7.x or newer.
> checking for MG3ImageWriter.h in 
> /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include/mrsid_writers... no encoding support.
> checking for MrSID JPEG2000 support... disabled
> checking for XTIFFClientOpen in -lgeotiff... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
>
> I don't see any problems there - maybe a problem with the gcc or g++ version 
> I'm using? I have several installed, but when I do g++ --version I get 
>
> g++ (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
>
> and gcc --version gives me:
>
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> ps. If it's possible to enable jpeg2000 support in this process, I'd be 
> delighted get that working too.
>
> On Wednesday 03 June 2009, Alan Boudreault wrote:
>   
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> Here's the procedure that you have to do to build mrsid plugin:
>>
>> 1- apt-get update (just to be sure that you get the lastest UbuntuGIS
>> packages list)
>>
>> 2- apt-get install gdal-mrsid-src
>>
>> 3- apt-get install gdal-bin (we'll use the utility gdalinfo to check if the
>> plugin is properly installed)
>>
>> 4- Run gdalinfo: gdalinfo --formats | grep -i mrsid  (at this point... you
>> should not see any output because the plugin is not installed)
>>
>> 5- Download and extract the Lizard GeoSDK.
>>
>> 6- Build and install the plugin: gdal-mrsid-build
>> /usr/local/Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167 (this is an example path... you can use any
>> path you want.. just pass it to gdal-mrsid-build in argument)
>>
>> 7- Re-Run gdalinfo: gdalinfo --formats | grep -i mrsid  (now, you should
>> see the MrSID plugin entry)
>>
>>
>> Let me know if all is ok.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alan
>>
>> On June 3, 2009 03:40:55 pm Bill Kristan wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello UbuntuGIS!
>>>
>>> I'm pleased to see you're working on packages for open source GIS on
>>> Ubuntu. I'm a GIS user on Kubuntu Jaunty, and it's great to have a source
>>> of up to date debs.
>>>
>>> I've been trying various ways to import mrsid images into GRASS, and have
>>> yet to find a linux-only solution (I've successfully exported sids to img
>>> files on ArcInfo in Windows, then imported them into GRASS, but that's
>>> less than ideal - Lizard Tech's mrsidgeodecode has small maximum file
>>> sizes on all its output formats, which has been a problem, and so on). It
>>> looks like the gdal-mrsid plugin on the ubuntugis ppa archive is just
>>> what I need, but... I'm not getting it to compile right. I downloaded
>>> Lizard Tech's SDK (Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167), and extracted it into
>>> /usr/local, then renamed it GeExpress-7.0 (because that's what it was
>>> called in the gdal-mrsid-build.in script...hoped that would work, since I
>>> wasn't sure how to point to it with apt-get -b). I compiled the examples
>>> in the sdk, which worked. I then tried to build the package with apt-get
>>> -b source gdal-mrsid, which gave me a package called
>>> gdal-mrsid-src_1.6.1-1_all.deb. Installing that with dpkg -i seemed to
>>> work, but then r.in.gdal didn't recognize my test sid file, and doesn't
>>> list mrsid as a supported format. Does anybody know where I might be
>>> going wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>  Bill Kristan
>>>       
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