1 PCRE-CONFIG(1) General Commands Manual PCRE-CONFIG(1) 2 3 4 5 NAME 6 pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration 7 8 SYNOPSIS 9 10 pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs] 11 [--libs16] [--libs32] [--libs-cpp] [--libs-posix] 12 [--cflags] [--cflags-posix] 13 14 15 DESCRIPTION 16 17 pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries 18 and the options required to compile a program to use them. Some of the 19 options apply only to the 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit libraries, 20 respectively, and are not available if only one of those libraries has 21 been built. If an unavailable option is encountered, the "usage" infor- 22 mation is output. 23 24 25 OPTIONS 26 27 --prefix Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for 28 architecture independent files (/usr on many systems, 29 /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output. 30 31 --exec-prefix 32 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for 33 architecture dependent files (normally the same as --prefix) 34 to the standard output. 35 36 --version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to 37 the standard output. 38 39 --libs Writes to the standard output the command line options 40 required to link with the 8-bit PCRE library (-lpcre on many 41 systems). 42 43 --libs16 Writes to the standard output the command line options 44 required to link with the 16-bit PCRE library (-lpcre16 on 45 many systems). 46 47 --libs32 Writes to the standard output the command line options 48 required to link with the 32-bit PCRE library (-lpcre32 on 49 many systems). 50 51 --libs-cpp 52 Writes to the standard output the command line options 53 required to link with PCRE's C++ wrapper library (-lpcrecpp 54 -lpcre on many systems). 55 56 --libs-posix 57 Writes to the standard output the command line options 58 required to link with PCRE's POSIX API wrapper library 59 (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many systems). 60 61 --cflags Writes to the standard output the command line options 62 required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include 63 some -I options, but is blank on many systems). 64 65 --cflags-posix 66 Writes to the standard output the command line options 67 required to compile files that use PCRE's POSIX API wrapper 68 library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on 69 many systems). 70 71 72 SEE ALSO 73 74 pcre(3) 75 76 77 AUTHOR 78 79 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian 80 GNU/Linux system. It has been subsequently revised as a generic PCRE 81 man page. 82 83 84 REVISION 85 86 Last updated: 24 June 2012 87
