error making c++ library on windows 8.1 using cygwin

src/thrift/transport/THttpServer.cpp: In member function 'virtual void apache::thrift::transport::THttpServer::parseHeader(char*)':
src/thrift/transport/THttpServer.cpp:50:74: error: 'strcasestr' was not declared in this scope
   #define THRIFT_strcasestr(haystack, needle) strcasestr(haystack, needle)
                                                                          ^
src/thrift/transport/THttpServer.cpp:62:9: note: in expansion of macro 'THRIFT_strcasestr'
     if (THRIFT_strcasestr(value, "chunked") != NULL) {
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
make[4]: *** [Makefile:1350: src/thrift/transport/THttpServer.lo] Error 1

This is a part of the console output, but it is the entire error. This happened during the execution of make in the root directory.