Re: patches and more

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Robert Shearman"  wrote:
> > this one should be added to windows.h (maybe it's not the best
> > place for it, but it works):
> >
> > #define stricmp strcasecmp
>
> This define is not present in the Platform SDK. It is a by-product of 
> using glibc instead of msvcrt as your C library. If you used the headers 
> in include/msvcrt and added -lmsvcrt to the linker command line then it 
> should have worked out of the box. If you want to link against glibc, 
> then think of changing stricmp to strcasecmp as part of porting the program.

Rob is right, but I'd like to point out to a caveat caused by using
strcasecmp instead of a Win32 API: since Unix and Wine internal (Win32)
*are* different, that could lead to subtle bugs in many locales.