[Python-Dev] a few strdup() questions...

Ulrich Eckhardt doomster at knuut.de
Thu Jan 8 10:39:54 CET 2009


On Wednesday 07 January 2009 16:30:23 Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 5:30 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster at knuut.de> wrote:
> > MS Windows CE doesn't provide strdup(), so where should I put it? I guess
> > I should just compile in Python/strdup.c, right?
>
> I'm not an expert on Windows CE, but I believe it calls the function
> "_strdup()":
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms861162.aspx

Search with "Look in VC Include Directories" yields nothing. You are right 
though, the CE6 SDK I have does declare _strdup in stdlib.h and also provides 
an implementation to link with.

Summary: redefine strdup and work around the broken search feature.

thanks

Uli


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