[gdal-dev] Proposal: Native MrSID DSDK Support for Upcoming GDAL Version (Surendrakumar Dandru)

[Laurențiu Nicola]

To me it sounds like SuperBuild/ExternalProject where third-party libraries get downloaded and compiled automatically.

I don't see GDAL adding that, but who knows?

Laurentiu

On Tue, Sep 30, 2025, at 14:38, Greg Troxel via gdal-dev wrote:
> Michael Katz via gdal-dev <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> writes:
>
>>  Can someone clarify whether the "Native MrSID" proposal would change
>>  the functionality of the library, or would only make it easier to use
>>  the library through GDAL. I posted a few months ago about an apparent
>>  color bug in the GDAL MrSID implementation compared to the LizardTech
>>  tool.
>
> Nobody can, because the "native MrSID" posting was extremely vague.
> It's not a proposal, but rather a request for Someone Else to write some
> (unspecified) code.
>
> But I would guess that the request was about compilation mechanics.
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