error C3861: 'strcasecmp': identifier not found in visual studio 2008?

visual-studio-2008 cygwin porting
user63898 picture user63898 · Sep 12, 2010 · Viewed 17.1k times · Source

im trying to port application from cygwin to visual studio 2008 express
but im getting this error : 

error C3861: 'strcasecmp': identifier not found

in this type of code: 

if (!strcasecmp("A0", s))  ....

what is the replacement in vs? i can't find any thing in the net

Answer

fantastory picture fantastory · Oct 14, 2014

add this to your precompiled header (or some other config.h)

#ifdef _MSC_VER 
//not #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64) because we have strncasecmp in mingw
#define strncasecmp _strnicmp
#define strcasecmp _stricmp
#endif

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