[Qgis-developer] ecw and linux nightly builds

[Ramon Andinach]

Ah. I appear not to have been clear in my intent. Sorry.

I was using ubuntugis-unstable (which is 1.6) and had ecw support there. 
 (Giovanni, yes that method worked perfectly for 1.6)

I then moved to the nightly builds (by changing sources, and letting apt sort things out) so I could find out more about 1.7, and have been in blissful ignorance of the whole ecw problem (at least on this computer) for a couple of months. I'm now quite used to 1.7 (particularly the OTF rasters :), and would rather not have to go back to 1.6.

So the crux of the question should have been, "Is there a (relatively) easy way to look at ecw rasters using the nightly build?"




I have also been looking at Jürgen's answer, and if I understand I should remove the remaining GDAL bits from the 1.6 install and bring in GDAL from source (which should be what the nightly build is expecting), and hook ecw up to that. Then it should work. I'm probably misunderstanding - is that right?

-ramon.


On 20/04/2011, at 15:28 , Giovanni Manghi wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this doesn't work anymore?
> 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki/UserTutorials
> 
> cheers
> 
> -- Giovanni --
> 
> On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 15:20 +0800, custard wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've been happily running the development nightly builds on my linux
>> (ubuntu) box for a while now.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, I've just hit a point where unfortunately I have no
>> real choice but to load up an ecw image.
>> 
>> I have previously complied the ecw library (when using
>> ubuntugis-unstable) and GDAL knows about ecw, but QGIS doesn't seem to
>> want to talk to it.
>> 
>> There doesn't seem to be a gdal-ecw (or similar) package in the
>> nightly repositry.
>> 
>> So
>> Is it possible to add a package to the nightly build to get ecw
>> support?
>> or,
>> Is it possible for me to build/add a linking bit (package) and get ecw
>> support?
>> or,
>> Do I need to go into the self-build relm?
>> 
>> If it's one of the first two, are there pointers available?
>> 
>> -ramon.
>> 
>> 
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