How can I convert a csv file of WKT data to a shape file using ogr2ogr?

Question

This question is related to Shapefiles to Text. I have a csv file, with one column, where all the rows correspond to WKT POLYGON()'s:

WKT
POLYGON(...)
POLYGON(...)
...

I'm familiar with how to convert from shp file to wkt, but I need to go the other way around. I tried playing around with ogr2ogr's settings/flags, but didn't really get anything useful. I also know I can use QGIS to do this, but it freezes/crashes since the dataset is fairly large. I'd appreciate any suggestions/advice.

Answer 1

http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html plus http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_csv.html should have everything you need to describe the layout of your data and import it. In short, you need to create a OGR VRT file that describes things using details from the CSV driver page.