Thursday, December 15, 2011

strcasecmp: identifier not found when porting from linux to windows

Ever tried to port from linux to windows and got the :

error C3861: 'strcasecmp': identifier not found

The easiest workaround is to add a  conditional define (visual studio add the –D _WIN32 or _WIN64 depending your OS) and define the following mappings:

#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(_WIN64)
  #define snprintf _snprintf
  #define vsnprintf _vsnprintf
  #define strcasecmp _stricmp
  #define strncasecmp _strnicmp
#endif

Another common missing identifier is the Uint which can be solved adding:

#define uint=unsigned int

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