[GIS] Geoserver ecw plugin problem

Question

I am trying to publish some ecw files with geoserver 2.7.2 on ubuntu 15.04 x64. I downloaded gdal plugin, gdal_data and native libraries for image-io 1.1.11 and set environment variables; GDAL_DATA, LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

I can see new store types when adding new one (ECW, EHdr, JP2ECW etc.). But when I try to save an ECW store with a valid ecw file which I tested with ArcMap, geoserver crashes with this error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'
what(): basic_string::_S_create
Aborted (core dumped)

Do you have any idea about this problem?

Answer 1

Finally I managed to run ecw plugin inside geoserver version 2.7.2

• Downloaded libecw source from http://meuk.technokrat.nl/libecwj2-3.3-2006-09-06.zip

• Applied this patch https://github.com/makinacorpus/libecw/blob/master/Source/C/NCSUtil/NCSPrefsXML.cpp.rej

• Ran ./configure, make and sudo make install commands to build.

• Override generated libs over image-io-ext libs. Make sure the path to the newly compiled .so's are in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before the existing ones (present in geoserver gdal documentation).

• The other steps told in geoserver gdal documentation (cant post more than 2 links) are valid.