[Qgis-user] using ECW in Qgis

[Carlos Dávila]

Leandro M. Sousa escribió:
> Hi again Carlos,
> I compiled qgis and seems that it found my pre-compiled gdal 1.5 with 
> ecw support.
I'm having some problems using ecw files with qgis (see 
https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/778), so I would really appreciate 
some feedback on how ecw rasters work for you.
Regards
Carlos
>
> Thanks for your answer,
> Best regards,
> Leandro
>
> Carlos Dávila escreveu:
>> Leandro M. Sousa escribió:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to use .ecw files in Qgis without compiling things? 
>>> I read something about compiling gdal with ecw support, but I didn't 
>>> understand much about this.
>>> I use Ubuntu 7.10 with qgis-9.2-rc1(installed from repository).
>>>
>>> I could also try to compile gdal, but I don't know what to do first: 
>>> 1) Remove qgis 2) compile gdal 3) reinstall qgis?
>>> And how do I put the ecw into compiled gdal?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance, 
>