[gdal-dev] Supporting ECW as a plugin. (Windows)

[Daniele Romagnoli]

Hi again list,
I'm back to work on setting ECW format as a GDAL external plugin on windows
XP with visual studio 7.1 (nmake command line).

I have some issues...
My main steps are:
- building GDAL without ECW
- building ECW driver on frmts/ecw separately.
- configuring an ENV variable GDAL_DRIVER_PATH linking to the location where
the gdal_ECW_JP2ECW.DLL have been built.
- running gdalinfo to test things.

When running gdalinfo I get this error:
 ERROR 1: Can't find requested entry point: GDALRegister_ECW_JP2ECW

Indeed, putting the generated DLL in the "depends/dependency walker" tool, I
have only noticed the presence of the following two functions:
- GDALRegister_ECW
- GDALRegister_JP2ECW

whilst the GDALDriverManager:autoLoadDrivers function does:
1) looks for a DLL in the specified GDAL_DRIVER_PATH --->
gdal_ECW_JP2ECW.DLL
2) tries to call GDALRegister_ECW_JP2ECW function (missing).

The weird thing is that "ecwdataset.cpp" contains that function but the
generated DLL doesn't contain it.
I have also noticed that the ECW plugin available here (
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.5/) doesn't contain that registration
function.

Does anyone already successfully used the ECW as a separated plugin on
windows?
Am I doing something wrong?
Any tips/suggestion would be really appreciated.


Best Regards,
Daniele

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