[winGRASS] error on import of ECW/ERMapper Compressed Wavelets

[karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au]

I have been trying to import a file of the format described below using the

r.in.gdal in WinGrass6.0

r.in.gdal input=/home/ks80/data/Orthophotos/Colignan_NAT_20X.ecw output=Col
title=Col
ERROR 4: `/home/ks80/data/Orthophotos/Colignan_NAT_20X.ecw' not recognised
as a supported file format.

I always get the above message 'not recognized as a supported file format'.

According to the documentation the format should be supported

Would anyone be able to help me??

Cheers

Karl

----FILE FORMAT according to gdalinfo-------------------

C:\cygwin\home\ks80\data\Orthophotos>gdalinfo Colignan_NAT_20X.ecw

Driver: ECW/ERMapper Compressed Wavelets
Size is 52908, 74162
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["MGA54",
    GEOGCS["GEOCENTRIC DATUM of AUSTRALIA",
        DATUM["GDA94",
            SPHEROID["GRS80",6378137,298.257222101]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
    PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",141],
    PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",10000000],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",500000],
    UNIT["Meter",1]]
Origin = (614120.000000,6194000.050000)
Pixel Size = (0.30000000,-0.30000000)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (  614120.000, 6194000.050) (120d 0'45.45"E,695d28'34.82"N)
Lower Left  (  614120.000, 6171751.450) ( 63d55'10.07"E,671d 4'32.39"N)
Upper Right (  629992.400, 6194000.050) (101d23'29.63"E,685d53'19.03"N)
Lower Right (  629992.400, 6171751.450) ( 45d59'34.29"E,661d49'51.09"N)
Center      (  622056.200, 6182875.750) ( 82d30'14.90"E,678d25'33.52"N)
Band 1 Block=52908x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
  Overviews: arbitrary
Band 2 Block=52908x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
  Overviews: arbitrary
Band 3 Block=52908x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
  Overviews: arbitrary
------END file format message--------------