[Mapserver-users] MrSID

[Aaron D. Hunt]

Oliver

Do You know where the DSDK can be gotten from. I was on Lizardtech site and
could not find any thing on it, and I email them and have not gotten any
replay.

Aaron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oliver Wesp" <wesp at gdv.com>
To: "Matthias Schulz" <schulz at gaf.de>
Cc: <mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] MrSID


> Matthias,
>
> MrSID is supported through GDAL. This is a new devlopment. Here is what
> Frank has posted on this list (2003/22/08):
>
> "This is a new development.  MrSID support was implemented by Andrey
> Kiselev in the last 2 months under a contract from i-Cubed specifically
> to allow use of MrSID in MapServer.
>
> On Linux (and presumably other Unix platforms) you would configure with
> the --with-mrsid=(dir) switch.  The MrSID DSDK on Linux requires a very
> specific version of gcc, so everything else (GDAL, and MapServer) will
> need to be compiled with the same version.
>
> On Windows set the MRSID_HOME variable in the GDAL nmake.opt file.
>
> Some additional details are available in the GDAL "building from source"
> page, and in MrSID format page itself.  Followups on build problems
> should go to the gdal-dev list.
>
> I would add that due to the licensing of the MrSID libraries, I am
> unable to redistribute binaries of GDAL utilities or MapServer with
> MrSID support. You will need to license the DSDK from Lizardtech and
> build GDAL yourself. "
>
> best regards
> Oliver
>
> Matthias Schulz wrote:
> > As I have seen in the archive there are currently no plans to support
> > MrSID data. I am wondering what would be the programming effort for this
> > integration if one would use the sdk from MrSID. Could anyone give me a
> > rough idea of the effort or the aproach?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matthias
> >
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