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<body><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>Am 20.08.2015, 17:41 Uhr, schrieb Joachim Bergerhoff <agimjo@gmail.com>:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Dears, I guess the message title is explicit enough ?<br><br><br>BTW, I have downloaded the SDK 9.1.0 from Imtech. The ReadMe says:<br><br>"INSTALLATION:<br><br> No specific installation is required to use the MrSID SDK beyond copying the SDK contents to your local machine.<br><br> After installing, we suggest building and running the example program to assure correct installation and behaviour."<br></div><div><br><br>But
copying the SDK download (unpacked) somewhere on my disk obviously is
not enough and I am lost when it comes to "building" etc.<br><br></div><div>Thanks,<br><br></div>Joachim</div>
</blockquote><br><div>As far as I know, there is no way, but building your own gdal with mrsid support und Linux. The instructions can be found somewhere in the qgis-maze, but I don't how up-to-date they are.</div><div>I tried once, but as the instructions were not really idiot-proof and I prefer to use repositories, and as there was no clear instruction to be found how to deal with incompatibilities, I gave up so far. </div><div><br></div><div>I think the masterbrains just compile everything, and the stupid masses use a virtual Windows machine to transform to geoTIFF (like me).</div><div><br></div><div>There was an article mentioned in the list how to produce quite small geoTIFF some weeks ago: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2015/02/geotiff-compression-for-dummies.html</div><div><br></div><div>That's all I can tell</div><div>Bernd</div><br><br><div id="M2Signature"><div>-- </div><div>Bernd Vogelgesang<br>Siedlerstraße 2<br>91083 Baiersdorf/Igelsdorf<br>Tel: 09133-825374</div></div></body></html>