Would you mind reading the "OGR C++ API Read/Write Tutorial" available on 
http://gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html ? The answer is in the first code 
snippet ;-)

Le Wednesday 03 March 2010 21:43:49 deadpickle, vous avez écrit :
> I have finally compiled my C program and tried running it for the
> first time. When I ran the file I got the error:
> [t...@updraft ~/Programs]$ ./gdal_test_convert
> ERROR 10: Pointer 'hDriver' is NULL in 'OGR_Dr_CreateDataSource'.
> I'm trying to load the ESRI Shapefile driver. When I compiled it I
> linked it to the libgdal.a library. Is there something I'm missing?
>
> #include "ogr_api.h"
> #include "ogr_srs_api.h"
> #include "stdio.h"
>
> int main()
> {
>       //~ variable declaration
>       const char *name = "testc.shp", *dir = "C:\\Users\\deadpickle\\Desktop
> \\case study\\verify\\";
>       char *source, *target;
>       const char *sprj = "+proj=lcc +lat_1=33.000000 +lat_2=45.000000
> +lat_0=39.000000 +lon_0=-96.000000 +x_0=0.0 +y_0=0.0 +datum=NAD83";
>       const char *tprj = "WGS84";
>       char c[100];
>       OGRSFDriverH driver;
>       OGRDataSourceH ds;
>       OGRCoordinateTransformationH ctrans;
>       OGRLayerH layer;
>       OGRFieldDefnH fieldDefn;
>       OGRGeometryH line;
>       OGRFeatureDefnH featureDefn;
>       OGRFeatureH feature;
>       FILE *file;
>
>       //~ working directory
>       chdir(dir);
>
>       //~ get driver and create ds
>       driver = OGRGetDriverByName("ESRI Shapefile");
>       ds = OGR_Dr_CreateDataSource(driver, "testc.shp", NULL);
>
>       //~ create spatrefs and trans
>       OSRNewSpatialReference(source);
>       OSRNewSpatialReference(target);
>       OSRSetFromUserInput(source, sprj);
>       OSRSetFromUserInput(target, tprj);
>       ctrans = OCTNewCoordinateTransformation(target, source);
>
>       //~ create the layer
>       layer = OGR_DS_CreateLayer(ds, "test", source, wkbMultiLineString,
> NULL);
>
>       //~ add an id field
>       fieldDefn = OGR_Fld_Create("id", OFTInteger);
>       OGR_L_CreateField(layer, fieldDefn, FALSE);
>
>       //~ create geometry
>       line = OGR_G_CreateGeometry(wkbMultiLineString);
>
>       //~ layer def and create feature
>       featureDefn = OGR_L_GetLayerDefn(layer);
>       feature = OGR_F_Create(featureDefn);
>
>       //~ open file
>       file = fopen("2006track.csv","r");
>
>       if(file==NULL) {
>               printf("Error: can't open file.\n");
>               /* fclose(file); DON'T PASS A NULL POINTER TO fclose !! */
>               return 1;
>       }
>       else {
>               printf("File opened successfully. Contents:\n\n");
>
>               while(fgets(c, 100, file)!=NULL) {
>                       /* keep looping until NULL pointer... */
>                       printf("String: %s", c);
>                       /* print the file one line at a time  */
>               }
>
>               printf("\n\nNow closing file...\n");
>       }
>
>       //~ close file
>       fclose(file);
> }
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