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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/wx-dev/XkXyvMZZpDs

Really, even of you are inclined to say that MingW simply does not expose _strdup() or
strdup() when __STRICT_ANSI__
is defined, because of this in mingw's string.h:

#ifndef __STRICT_ANSI__

_CRTIMP char* __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW     _strdup (const char*) __MINGW_ATTRIB_MALLOC;

#endif


You still have to blame the wx folks for not working around the problem which pops up when
using -std=c++0x.


It looks like wx might be poised to provide their own

#ifndef wxCRT_StrdupA
WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE char *wxCRT_StrdupA(const char *psz);
#endif

under some circumstances.  This is one path to solution, but another one is to simply
provide a function prototype for _strdup() somewhere.  It is not like the function has
disappeared from MingW runtime libraries.  It is still there and you could link to it no
problem.