[gdal-dev] Cannot read tiff in gdal 1.5.1 for WinCE

[Mateusz Loskot]

marcello ferrero wrote:
> I was able to open tiff files on WinCE with gdal 1.4.2, but now that I
> ricompiled gdal 1.5.1 for WinCE, I cannot read tiff files anymore. 
> I suspect the problem is due to the libtiff changes introduced with gdal
> 1.5.0.
> 
> In gdal 1.5.1 when bsearch is called within TIFFFindField the value of
> tif->tif_nfields is initially 0. This causes bsearch to fail as the num
> parameter is 0. The bsearch used on WinCE is the one provided for the
> WinCe port (wcelibcex library).
> 
> I also tried to change the bsearch code of wcelibcex to return NULL when
> num is 0. The result is that now bsearch does not fail but I still have
> other errors returned from libtiff later in the code.
> The same file opened with the same code compiled for Windows XP works
> correctly.
> 
> Any idea?

This is known issue and already reported:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2133

As I see, you've also reported it as ticket #2307.
I'm going to close your report marked as duplicate.

Greetings
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net