[Qgis-developer] CAPS GIS Desktop Application

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Bob,

2011/8/3 Bob English <bobengl at gmail.com>:
> I've noticed that the QgsRasterLayer class included with the  QGIS Stable
> 1.0 API that came with my QGIS Copiapo installation does not have MrSID
> support, although the Copiapo application itself does open MrSID files.  I
> suppose it isn't possible to add MrSID support by changing the GDAL version
> in the API in code because GDAL is compiled in?  Does the API that comes
> with Wroclaw have MrSID support? If not, I guess I could use the Python
> bindings for GDAL to create a workaround?

QgsRasterLayer don't have any raster support at all. Reading rasters
is responsibility
of the raster provider (GDAL). So you need to build GDAL with MrSID
support and then
build QGIS with this new GDAL.

Hope this helps


-- 
Alexander Bruy