Hi Agustin Agustin wrote: > Therefore, I understand I should not try to make the current QGIS I have > work with a new compiled gdal.
Yes. gdal is a dependency, so if you change it you need to recompile everything that depends on it. > BUt could I have a second version of gdal > which I would use for converting ECW and MrSid files to formats that > QGIS can accept? Yes you can have multiple versions of gdal, just head my earlier warning if you ever decide to build qgis. You could try the FWTools [1] binary as this offers the formats [2] you need. Craig [1] http://fwtools.maptools.org/ [2] $ ./gdalinfo --version GDAL 1.5dev, FWTools 2.0.0, released 2007/11/12 $ ./gdalinfo --formats | grep -i "ecw" ECW (rw): ERMapper Compressed Wavelets JP2ECW (rw+): ERMapper JPEG2000 $ ./gdalinfo --formats | grep -i "mrsid" MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
