1 <html> 2 <head> 3 <title>pcre-config specification</title> 4 </head> 5 <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6 <h1>pcre-config man page</h1> 7 <p> 8 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 9 </p> 10 <p> 11 This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically 12 from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the 13 man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14 <br> 15 <ul> 16 <li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">SYNOPSIS</a> 17 <li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">DESCRIPTION</a> 18 <li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">OPTIONS</a> 19 <li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">SEE ALSO</a> 20 <li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">AUTHOR</a> 21 <li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">REVISION</a> 22 </ul> 23 <br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">SYNOPSIS</a><br> 24 <P> 25 <b>pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]</b> 26 <b>[--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]</b> 27 </P> 28 <br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</a><br> 29 <P> 30 <b>pcre-config</b> returns the configuration of the installed PCRE 31 libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. 32 </P> 33 <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">OPTIONS</a><br> 34 <P> 35 <b>--prefix</b> 36 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture 37 independent files (<i>/usr</i> on many systems, <i>/usr/local</i> on some 38 systems) to the standard output. 39 </P> 40 <P> 41 <b>--exec-prefix</b> 42 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture 43 dependent files (normally the same as <b>--prefix</b>) to the standard output. 44 </P> 45 <P> 46 <b>--version</b> 47 Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard 48 output. 49 </P> 50 <P> 51 <b>--libs</b> 52 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 53 with PCRE (<b>-lpcre</b> on many systems). 54 </P> 55 <P> 56 <b>--libs-posix</b> 57 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with 58 the PCRE posix emulation library (<b>-lpcreposix</b> <b>-lpcre</b> on many 59 systems). 60 </P> 61 <P> 62 <b>--cflags</b> 63 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 64 files that use PCRE (this may include some <b>-I</b> options, but is blank on 65 many systems). 66 </P> 67 <P> 68 <b>--cflags-posix</b> 69 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 70 files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some <b>-I</b> 71 options, but is blank on many systems). 72 </P> 73 <br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br> 74 <P> 75 <b>pcre(3)</b> 76 </P> 77 <br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br> 78 <P> 79 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux 80 system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man page. 81 </P> 82 <br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br> 83 <P> 84 Last updated: 18 April 2007 85 <br> 86 <p> 87 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 88 </p> 89
