GDAL raster tools on Windows Vista / 64 require GDAL binary path

[nelson]

GDAL raster operations did not work on a standalone Windows install of QGIS 1.6.0 on my Vista 64 system. Any attempts to do things with Raster (such as Raster / Information) resulted in gdalinfo.exe crashing with a Windows error: "gdalinfo.exe has stopped working". Details are an appcrash, exception code c0000005 offset 0006020b

In discussion on IRC wildintellect suggested setting the binary path in GDAL Tools. I set it to C:/Program Files (x86)/Quantum GIS Copiapo/bin and now GDAL raster operations work correctly.

I've seen this bug hinted at online a few times (like ticket 3435), and in each case the user was running a 64 bit Windows. Volter on IRC says he doesn't see the problem in a WinXP 32 bit install. Perhaps Quantum GIS tries to find GDAL in C:\Program Files\ but not in C:\Program Files (x86)\? The latter is the default install path in 64 bit Windows.

[borysiasty]

see also #3097, #3170