[osgeo4w-dev] Problems in using Perl wrappers with osgeo4w distro

[Ari Jolma]

Hello,

I'm able to build Perl wrappers from GDAL 1.5 against the latest osgeo4w 
binary release. I use MinGW (g++ is 3.4.5 with which my perl 5.10 is 
also built). The link library is gdal_i.lib - it just needs to be 
renamed to gdal.dll.a for perl to find and use it.

The module loads ok, and calls some functions ok from gdal15.ddl but 
fails when calling CPLError. Debugging the ogr_wrap.cpp I see that 
OGR_G_CreateFromWkb is called ok (but it returns deliberately an error), 
OGRErrMessages(err) gives me correct error message, but then calling 
CPLError(CE_Failure, err, "%s", OGRErrMessages(err)); never returns and 
Windows pops up the "has encountered a problem" dialog. gdb says that 
there is a Segmentation fault and the stack looks corrupt.

I wonder what could be the problem and how to even study what's the real 
problem.

With what compiler is gdal15.dll built?

Ari

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