[GRASS-user] r.in.gdal and .ecw files

[Wolfgang]

Hi,

I also would like to have ecw support for gdal, but I'm running on 
cygwin/winXP. But compiling ecw 3.3rc2 crashes :-((

Wolfgang


William Kyngesburye schrieb:
> 3.3rc2.  It puzzles me - because of those Mac OS X fixes mentioned, and 
> I've heard others have been successful (as far as being able to read 
> ECW).  And it's not just GDAL, the example progs in ECW also crash.
> 
> If you want to try it, I'd like to hear how it goes.  I've tried it a 
> few times since the 3.3rc2 release, I think thru a couple Tiger updates 
> (currently 10.4.7), and an Xcode update or two, and from PPC and Intel 
> Macs.  Maybe something I'm doing different than expected.  I should try 
> again, I really want ECW support, but have been distracted by installer 
> stuff and recently the frameworks.  I even went as far as trying to get 
> it to work on Fedora 5 on my MacBook, but I had compile errors, and 
> Linux is too much hassle to use on the MacBook with Parallels (no easy 
> file sharing like with Windows).
> 
> 
> On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:10 AM, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> 
>> Hi William,
>>
>> Do you get your gdal crash with  ecw 3.3 rc2, or ecw 3.1 rc2? I ask 
>> because I see in the 3.3 release notes:
>>
>> Version Features
>>
>> Numerous bug fixes, including:
>>
>> functional ECWP on platforms other than Windows
>> a fix to lossless JPEG 2000 compression
>> change to headers to allow overloading new and delete on Windows
>> correct calculation of compression throughput
>> large file support issues fixed
>> fix to UNICODE support making it orthogonal to the use of UNICODE 
>> #define in client code
>> fixes to the platform-dependent code for MacOS X
> 
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