Hi Daniele, You need to install the ecw libraries. For Unix/Linux/MacOSX you need to compile from source. You can get the libraries from http://www.ermapper.com/ProductView.aspx?t=131 - after installing the libraries you need to tell gdal where to find them and re-compile gdal.
I don't know what the exact licence terms are. It is a commercial product and in the past there was a limitation that files with the public version could not grow past 500MB in size, which is pretty severe limitation. The binary versions fwtools (http://fwtools.maptools.org/) should contain ecw support, but I don't know if the limitation exists or not. Because of this limitation I am currently not using ecw. Maybe there was a change in the licence terms, however. I am not totally up to date. See also http://www.gdal.org/frmt_ecw.html > Hi list, > I would like to get some information about how to support ECW as a GDAL's > plugin. > Andrea Aime, back from the FOSS4G, have proposed to improve the support to > ECW format offered by our ImageIO-Ext project, > by leveraging on GDAL plugin mechanism. > Which steps are involved to support ECW Driver as a plugin? (on both > Windows/Linux). > Should I also tweak the java bindings generation step to handle this? > > Any information/suggestion/link would be greatly appreciated. (I have > already taken a look at ticket 2385) > > Thank you very much. > Regards, > Daniele > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Eng. Daniele Romagnoli > Software Engineer > > GeoSolutions S.A.S. > Via Carignoni 51 > 55041 Camaiore (LU) > Italy > > phone: +39 0584983027 > fax: +39 0584983027 > mob: +39 328 0559267 > > > http://www.geo-solutions.it > > ------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev -- Andreas Neumann Böschacherstrasse 6, CH-8624 Grüt/Gossau, Switzerland Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web: * http://www.carto.net/ (Carto and SVG resources) * http://www.carto.net/neumann/ (personal page) * http://www.svgopen.org/ (SVG Open Conference) * http://www.geofoto.ch/ (Georeferenced Photos of Switzerland) _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
