On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:38:58AM +0200, Tamas Szekeres wrote: > 2009/5/4 Agustin Lobo <alobolis...@gmail.com> > > > > > Actually, this support is present for windows binary distributions of QGIS, > > provided the user takes the steps described at the end of page > > http://sites.google.com/site/eospansite/qsig-for-windows > > (mainly thanks to directions provided by Micha Silver) for example. But > > the same type of solution does not exist for any binary distribution of > > QGIS > > for Linux. > > > > Agustin, > > I have an impression that this is because the GDAL Windows builds support > building ECW as a plugin but this is not the case with the linux builds by > default, isn't it?
Currently - but for some patches a la gdal-grass - building of a plugin is not supported on linux, and anyway (but this is Debian/Ubuntu specific) it is not supportable by distributions due to the external SDK licenses. That's the reason to allow external plugins by separated building units on Linux: that would avoid user to rebuild the whole beast from scratch... > By this means it would indeed be reasonable to establish the counterpart of > this option (like Frank suggested by using a --with-ecw-as-plugin option) in > the default configuration mechanism, but using a completely different > compilation line would be quite undesired. > > Feel free to open up a ticket in this topic, I hope someone will be able to > take care of it (patches are welcomed). > -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
