MapServer and ECW

[Daniel Morissette]

This question is probably more for Frank, but I am interested in 
feedback from anyone else who has played with MapServer and ECW on Linux 
already...

We've just gone through a painful experience trying to get MapServer to 
work with MrSid files via GDAL on Linux a few weeks ago. Initially we 
suspected corrupted data files because some of them worked and some 
didn't, but it turned out that there were some recent fixes in the GDAL 
CVS that we didn't have. Rebuilding with the latest GDAL from CVS did 
the trick.

Now that ER-Mapper has modified its license to allow use of the ECW SDK 
with open source server software such as MapServer, we need to get 
Mapserver working with ECW on one of our client's servers. However, 
before we go through the same experience as for MrSid, I'd like to know 
if anyone else has tested/used MapServer with ECW files on Linux? Are 
there specific requirements (GDAL version, DSDK version, etc.)? Anything 
else we should know about?

Thanks

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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