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Diffstat (limited to 'ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcredemo.c')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcredemo.c b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcredemo.c index c6ba56ed5c..d565aecddd 100644 --- a/ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcredemo.c +++ b/ext/pcre/pcrelib/pcredemo.c @@ -7,14 +7,24 @@ of calling the PCRE regular expression library from a C program. See the pcresample documentation for a short discussion ("man pcresample" if you have the PCRE man pages installed). -In Unix-like environments, compile this program thuswise: +In Unix-like environments, if PCRE is installed in your standard system +libraries, you should be able to compile this program using this command: - gcc -Wall pcredemo.c -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib \ - -R/usr/local/lib -lpcre +gcc -Wall pcredemo.c -lpcre -o pcredemo + +If PCRE is not installed in a standard place, it is likely to be installed with +support for the pkg-config mechanism. If you have pkg-config, you can compile +this program using this command: + +gcc -Wall pcredemo.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs libpcre` -o pcredemo + +If you do not have pkg-config, you may have to use this: + +gcc -Wall pcredemo.c -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib \ + -R/usr/local/lib -lpcre -o pcredemo Replace "/usr/local/include" and "/usr/local/lib" with wherever the include and -library files for PCRE are installed on your system. You don't need -I and -L -if PCRE is installed in the standard system libraries. Only some operating +library files for PCRE are installed on your system. Only some operating systems (e.g. Solaris) use the -R option. Building under Windows: |