openvr: Segfault in dl_close when calling vr::VR_Init() on linux

A very simple hello world program (on a system with no HMD) returns true for vr::VR_IsHmdPresent() but then segfaults in the call to vr::VR_Init().

System is linux, amd64, C++ test program built with GCC 5.3.1.

Test program that reproduces the error:

// Build with g++ -std=c++11 openvrtest.cpp -L. -lopenvr_api -Iinclude -o openvrtest
#include <iostream>
#include "openvr.h"

auto main()->int {
  if(vr::VR_IsHmdPresent()) {
    std::cout << "No head mounted display present." << std::endl;
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
  }
  std::cout << "Head mounted display may be present, initialising..." << std::endl;
  vr::EVRInitError vr_error = vr::VRInitError_None;
  vr::IVRSystem *hmd_handle = vr::VR_Init(&vr_error, vr::VRApplication_Scene);
  std::cout << "Initialised successfully" << std::endl;
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Produces the output and segfault:

Head mounted display may be present, initialising...

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_dl_close (_map=0x0) at dl-close.c:762
762 dl-close.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  _dl_close (_map=0x0) at dl-close.c:762
#1  0x00007ffff7dea114 in _dl_catch_error (objname=0x613c30, errstring=0x613c38, mallocedp=0x613c28, 
    operate=0x7ffff6b43fd0 <dlclose_doit>, args=0x0) at dl-error.c:187
#2  0x00007ffff6b444d9 in _dlerror_run (operate=operate@entry=0x7ffff6b43fd0 <dlclose_doit>, args=0x0) at dlerror.c:163
#3  0x00007ffff6b43fff in __dlclose (handle=<optimized out>) at dlclose.c:46
#4  0x00007ffff7b92fcb in vr::VR_InitInternal (peError=0x7fffffffe62c, eApplicationType=vr::VRApplication_Scene)
    at openvr_api.cpp:45
#5  0x0000000000400d3b in vr::VR_Init(vr::EVRInitError*, vr::EVRApplicationType) ()
#6  0x0000000000400b5e in main ()