[Ubuntu] Hello and question

[Alan Boudreault]

Hi Bill,

Can you send me an example of MrSID data which I could use to test that ?
(off list, directly to my email address)

Thanks,
Alan

On June 4, 2009 12:30:34 pm Bill Kristan wrote:
> Hi Alan - I know there's at least one other user following this thread, so
> I'll make my progress report on the list...
>
> Your instructions worked great, I managed to get the plugin installed.
>
> The next problem is that when I try to run either r.in.gdal or
> gdal_translate I get an "undefined symbol" error
>
> gdal_translate: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gdal16plugins/gdal_MrSID.so:
> undefined symbol: _ZN12LTIVSIStreamC1Ev
>
> The configure output (and the command I used) is here:
>
> root at wkristanlt:/home/bill# gdal-mrsid-build /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0
>
> grep: /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include/support/lt_base.h: No such file or
> directory
> Extracting GDAL/MrSID tarball
> Building GDAL/MrSID plugin
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking for g++... g++
> checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
> checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for g++ -shared ... yes
> checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
> using /usr/lib/gdal16plugins as GDAL shared library autoload directory
> checking for lt_base.h in /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include/support... not
> found.
> checking for lt_base.h in /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include... found MrSID
> DSDK version 7.x or newer.
> checking for MG3ImageWriter.h in
> /usr/local/GeExpress-7.0/include/mrsid_writers... no encoding support.
> checking for MrSID JPEG2000 support... disabled
> checking for XTIFFClientOpen in -lgeotiff... yes
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
>
> I don't see any problems there - maybe a problem with the gcc or g++
> version I'm using? I have several installed, but when I do g++ --version I
> get
>
> g++ (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
>
> and gcc --version gives me:
>
> gcc (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) 4.3.3
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> ps. If it's possible to enable jpeg2000 support in this process, I'd be
> delighted get that working too.
>
> On Wednesday 03 June 2009, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > Here's the procedure that you have to do to build mrsid plugin:
> >
> > 1- apt-get update (just to be sure that you get the lastest UbuntuGIS
> > packages list)
> >
> > 2- apt-get install gdal-mrsid-src
> >
> > 3- apt-get install gdal-bin (we'll use the utility gdalinfo to check if
> > the plugin is properly installed)
> >
> > 4- Run gdalinfo: gdalinfo --formats | grep -i mrsid  (at this point...
> > you should not see any output because the plugin is not installed)
> >
> > 5- Download and extract the Lizard GeoSDK.
> >
> > 6- Build and install the plugin: gdal-mrsid-build
> > /usr/local/Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167 (this is an example path... you can use
> > any path you want.. just pass it to gdal-mrsid-build in argument)
> >
> > 7- Re-Run gdalinfo: gdalinfo --formats | grep -i mrsid  (now, you should
> > see the MrSID plugin entry)
> >
> >
> > Let me know if all is ok.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alan
> >
> > On June 3, 2009 03:40:55 pm Bill Kristan wrote:
> > > Hello UbuntuGIS!
> > >
> > > I'm pleased to see you're working on packages for open source GIS on
> > > Ubuntu. I'm a GIS user on Kubuntu Jaunty, and it's great to have a
> > > source of up to date debs.
> > >
> > > I've been trying various ways to import mrsid images into GRASS, and
> > > have yet to find a linux-only solution (I've successfully exported sids
> > > to img files on ArcInfo in Windows, then imported them into GRASS, but
> > > that's less than ideal - Lizard Tech's mrsidgeodecode has small maximum
> > > file sizes on all its output formats, which has been a problem, and so
> > > on). It looks like the gdal-mrsid plugin on the ubuntugis ppa archive
> > > is just what I need, but... I'm not getting it to compile right. I
> > > downloaded Lizard Tech's SDK (Geo_DSDK-7.0.0.2167), and extracted it
> > > into /usr/local, then renamed it GeExpress-7.0 (because that's what it
> > > was called in the gdal-mrsid-build.in script...hoped that would work,
> > > since I wasn't sure how to point to it with apt-get -b). I compiled the
> > > examples in the sdk, which worked. I then tried to build the package
> > > with apt-get -b source gdal-mrsid, which gave me a package called
> > > gdal-mrsid-src_1.6.1-1_all.deb. Installing that with dpkg -i seemed to
> > > work, but then r.in.gdal didn't recognize my test sid file, and doesn't
> > > list mrsid as a supported format. Does anybody know where I might be
> > > going wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >  Bill Kristan
>
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