[geos-devel] Odd problem on Vista

[Mark Fredrickson]

Sean,

Do you have access to GEOSGeom_destroy()? It's in the geos_c.h, which
IIRC is what was used to build that DLL according to traffic on this
list.

-Mark




On Jan 16, 2008 4:39 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Sean Gillies wrote:
> > I'm using Python's ctypes and libffi to access functions in GEOS.
> > GEOSGeomToWKT and GEOSGeomToWKB_buf each allocate memory that must be
> > freed by the caller. This has been no problem for me on Linux or Windows
> > 2000, I simply free the memory with libc.free or msvcrt.free. There
> > seems to be an authorization problem on Vista with the result that
> > msvcrt.free cannot access the memory allocated by geos.dll. This is the
> > DLL I got from Artem the other day. I'm thinking that the solution is
> > for GEOS to export its own free function ala msFree in MapServer, yes?
>
> Sean,
>
> I can't see any harm in that.
>
> Best regards,
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