diff --git a/docs/examples/http2-download.c b/docs/examples/http2-download.c
index 8b06507348..d4f111cf14 100644
--- a/docs/examples/http2-download.c
+++ b/docs/examples/http2-download.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
 
 /* somewhat unix-specific */
 #include <sys/time.h>
diff --git a/docs/examples/http2-serverpush.c b/docs/examples/http2-serverpush.c
index 53c491b3a5..1a27d21c34 100644
--- a/docs/examples/http2-serverpush.c
+++ b/docs/examples/http2-serverpush.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
 
 /* somewhat unix-specific */
 #include <sys/time.h>
diff --git a/docs/examples/http2-upload.c b/docs/examples/http2-upload.c
index 2ec55059af..cc9883b558 100644
--- a/docs/examples/http2-upload.c
+++ b/docs/examples/http2-upload.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 
diff --git a/docs/examples/imap-multi.c b/docs/examples/imap-multi.c
index c7dc130713..dc6f8ba3c0 100644
--- a/docs/examples/imap-multi.c
+++ b/docs/examples/imap-multi.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
  *
  ***************************************************************************/
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <curl/curl.h>
 
 /* This is a simple example showing how to fetch mail using libcurl's IMAP
diff --git a/docs/examples/pop3-multi.c b/docs/examples/pop3-multi.c
index 6df09a2636..feca2fa9b9 100644
--- a/docs/examples/pop3-multi.c
+++ b/docs/examples/pop3-multi.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  *                            | (__| |_| |  _ <| |___
  *                             \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
  *
- * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+ * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2015, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
  *
  * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
  * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
  *
  ***************************************************************************/
 #include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <curl/curl.h>
 
 /* This is a simple example showing how to retrieve mail using libcurl's POP3