[mapserver-users] ecw

[kenboss]

Now this is welcome news.  Our shop has to date steered clear of ECW owing to 
its apparent marriage to Microsoft operating systems.  Given that we are 
primarily a Unix shop, and in particular that our web server is Unix-based, 
there didn't seem to be any reasonable means of fitting ECW into the mix.  Can I 
assume that GDAL support for ECW means that we will (finally) be able to serve 
ECW images from Unix servers?

--Ken Boss

> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 
> Is there direct ECW support in MapServer?  
> 
> In any event, there is ECW support in GDAL and GDAL support has been
> incorporated into the current CVS tree for MapServer.  If you are brave, you
> could build the current CVS MapServer, and build GDAL (carefully enabling
> ECW support) to get this capability. 
> 
> More information on GDAL is available at:
> 
>   http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/
> 
> The downside is that I have had problems with the GDAL ECW supporting hanging
> processes on exit(), presumably because of some sort of threads issue on 
> exit.  So I don't know that this is ready for prime time yet. 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
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