Michael,

Which version of metakit were you building?  Is this still problem
with the most recent versions of metakit?  If not, has anyone reported
this to the metakit author so this can at least get resolved in future
versions?

Curt.


Michael Basler writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to re-build FlightGear with all the libs on a completely new
> Cygwin system from scratch (mostly to learn all the annoyencies on the way
> again and record the errors in the Getting Started).
> 
> The first one entered already while making Metakit. While compiling it I get
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> g++ -c -O2 -I../unix/../include -I../unix/../src -I.
> ../unix/../src/string.cpp
> -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
> ../src/string.cpp: In function `int strcasecmp(const char*, const char*)':
> ../src/string.cpp:39: `int strcasecmp(const char*, const char*)' was
> declared
>    `extern' and later `static'
> /usr/include/string.h:60: previous declaration of `int strcasecmp(const
> char*,
>    const char*)'
> make: *** [string.o] Error 1
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> 
> After consulting Google I found the problem is in no way new. It was
> observed in Dec 2002 by Leo. The answer's from Norman Vine. He suggests
> either to
> 
> replace the #if @ line 33 of string.cpp with
> 
> #if (!q4_MSVC && !q4_WATC) || ((defined(__CYGWIN__) || defined(__MINGW32__))
> && __GNUC__ < 3)
> 
> or to comment out the whole function. The first one did not help for me, but
> the seond one did (thanks, Norman).
> 
> However, I can't suggest this to my valued readers ;-) My guess is, all
> Cygwin users (I've got the feeling there are essentially 3 of us) once for
> all compiled Metakit and let it alone - as I did before.
> 
> Question: What can we do to improve this situation?
> 
> Btw, this is with a very recent Cygwin System (as of yesterday using GCC
> 3.2) with Simgear/Metakit CVS.
> 
> Thanks, Michael
> 
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