[GRASS-dev] G_strcasecmp() in GRASS 7

[Glynn Clements]

Martin Landa wrote:

> >> do we need our own G_strcasecmp()? Bearing in mind that libc offers
> >> strcasecmp() and strncasecmp().
> >
> > Windows doesn't have these (it has stricmp and/or strcmpi instead).
> 
> recently I have used strncasecmp() in db/ogr/execute.c and it's
> compile on Windows without any problem.

MinGW defines it in libmoldname<version>.a, which is linked by
default. It wouldn't work if you built with MSVC, although the same is
true for the POSIX functions (these functions have leading underscores
in MSVCRT; libmoldnames exists mainly to define aliases without the
underscores).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>