strdup error on g++ with c++0x

Question

I have some C++0x code. I was able to reproduce it below. The code below works fine without -std=c++0x however i need it for my real code.

How do i incl

Answer 1

strdup may not be included in the library you are linking against (you mentioned mingw). I'm not sure if it's in c++0x or not; I know it's not in earlier versions of C/C++ standards.

It's a very simple function, and you could just include it in your program (though it's not legal to call it simply "strdup" since all names beginning with "str" and a lowercase letter are reserved for implementation extensions.)

char *my_strdup(const char *str) {
    size_t len = strlen(str);
    char *x = (char *)malloc(len+1); /* 1 for the null terminator */
    if(!x) return NULL; /* malloc could not allocate memory */
    memcpy(x,str,len+1); /* copy the string into the new buffer */
    return x;
}