[Gdal-dev] NITF fixes

[Frank Warmerdam]

Simon Perkins wrote:
> Just in case anybody else is also having problems with this, I just 
> checked in some fixes to the GDAL NITF format directory to get it to 
> compile under visual studio again.
> 
> One of the problems was that some new code added earlier today in 
> nitffile.c used the strcasecmp() function, which is not available in 
> windows. I added a define that translates this to the equivalent 
> _stricmp() windows function if _MSC_VER is defined, but I wonder if 
> there's a more standard GDAL way to do this? Are these kinds of 
> incompatibilities handled by some cpl_ header file somewhere?

Sy,

The more common approach is to use the EQUAL() macro (which returns true
if the strings are equal in a case insensitive way).

Even, perhaps you could switch this? (assuming it was Even't recent work)

Best regards,
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