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_stricmp with mingw and c++0x not existent?

I'm currently trying to use googletest with MinGW and -std=c++0x but it complains that _stricmp is not declared in this scope which it doesn't when I do not use -std=c++0x. I have no idea what _stricmp is, I just found out that it is defined in cstring/string.h, so why is it gone in C++0x?

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DaVinci Avatar asked Jun 10 '11 21:06

DaVinci


2 Answers

The -std=c++0x option causes g++ to go into 'strict ANSI' mode so it doesn't declare non-standard functions (and _stricmp() is non-standard - it's just a version of strcmp() that's case-insensitive).

Use -std=gnu++0x instead.

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Michael Burr Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 04:10

Michael Burr


In addition to solution by Michael there is other method for overriding strict ANSI mode. Include the following before any includes in file with compilation problems:

#ifdef __STRICT_ANSI__
#undef __STRICT_ANSI__
#endif

This helps not only with _stricmp also with other common functions like swptintf, vswprintf and simmilar.

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Yuriy Petrovskiy Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 02:10

Yuriy Petrovskiy