[Openev-discuss] FWTools 0.9.8 Released

[Frank W. <fwa...@gm...>]

Folks,

FWTools 0.9.8 has been related and is available for download from:

  http://fwtools.maptools.org/

FWTools is a easy-to-install binary packaging of OpenEV, MapServer,
GDAL, PROJ, and OGDI with lots of options built-in and good python=20
support.=20

This is the usual "latest from CVS" release.  Noteworthy changes include:

 On Windows:

 o Use of the ECW 3.1 SDK, with the name of the DLLs renamed to=20
    include _fw so they don't interfere with any older versions already
    installed in windows\system32 on windows as had been reported
    by several people.=20

 o Included all the GTK related include files and stub libraries.  In theor=
y
    this should make it fairly easy to use FWTools to build the OpenEV
    core against instead of folks having to build all the dependencies=20
    themselves.=20

On Linux:

 o I was having problems with a message about libgcc_s.so not being
   properly installed and this interfering with pthread_cancel in the ECW
   library.  I think I have worked around this by moving the libgcc_s.so
   into $FWTOOLS_HOME/lib/fallback and putting it after /lib in the
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Apparently it is important to use the installed
   libgcc_s.so if it is available.=20

Best regards,
--=20
---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------=
---
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.c=
om
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent