[mapserver-users] ECW image support

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi,

I don't have a clue of what could have gone wrong with your build 
Richard, but ECW should work fine with MapServer as long as GDAL is 
built with ECW support (and I think some DLLs have to be copied to your 
system).  Assefa has compiled and used a set of MapServer executables 
for Windows with ECW support at the beginning of December so hopefully 
he can make these executables available for download when he's back next 
week (Jan 7th).

Daniel


Richard Greenwood wrote:

> Hi Perry, Frank, and Mapserver Listers,
>
> I downloaded ms35gif_gdal.zip and added a simple ECW layer to my map 
> file:
>
> LAYER
>         NAME "test"
>         Status default
>         TYPE raster
>         DATA "\Tc\OrthoPhotos\1999\s_063.ecw"
> END
>
> But I get the following error message:
>
> "msDrawRaster(): Image handling error. Unrecognized or unsupported 
> image format"
>
> So I tried compiling it myself without any luck. I got GDAL 1.1.5 and 
> un-commented the ECW lines in the nmake.opt file. I un-commented the 
> GDAL_DIR and OGR lines in the mapserver makfile.vc. Everything 
> compiled without errors, but I still get the same "unsupported image 
> format" error message.
>
> Am I doing something wrong in my layer definition in my map file? Or 
> does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong in 
> my makefiles?
>
> Thanks, and happy new year,
> Rich