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> [--libs16] [--libs32] [--libs-cpp] [--libs-posix]</b> 27 <b> [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]</b> 28 </P> 29 <br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</a><br> 30 <P> 31 <b>pcre-config</b> returns the configuration of the installed PCRE 32 libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. Some of 33 the options apply only to the 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit libraries, 34 respectively, and are 35 not available if only one of those libraries has been built. If an unavailable 36 option is encountered, the "usage" information is output. 37 </P> 38 <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">OPTIONS</a><br> 39 <P> 40 <b>--prefix</b> 41 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture 42 independent files (<i>/usr</i> on many systems, <i>/usr/local</i> on some 43 systems) to the standard output. 44 </P> 45 <P> 46 <b>--exec-prefix</b> 47 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture 48 dependent files (normally the same as <b>--prefix</b>) to the standard output. 49 </P> 50 <P> 51 <b>--version</b> 52 Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard 53 output. 54 </P> 55 <P> 56 <b>--libs</b> 57 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 58 with the 8-bit PCRE library (<b>-lpcre</b> on many systems). 59 </P> 60 <P> 61 <b>--libs16</b> 62 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 63 with the 16-bit PCRE library (<b>-lpcre16</b> on many systems). 64 </P> 65 <P> 66 <b>--libs32</b> 67 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 68 with the 32-bit PCRE library (<b>-lpcre32</b> on many systems). 69 </P> 70 <P> 71 <b>--libs-cpp</b> 72 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with 73 PCRE's C++ wrapper library (<b>-lpcrecpp</b> <b>-lpcre</b> on many 74 systems). 75 </P> 76 <P> 77 <b>--libs-posix</b> 78 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with 79 PCRE's POSIX API wrapper library (<b>-lpcreposix</b> <b>-lpcre</b> on many 80 systems). 81 </P> 82 <P> 83 <b>--cflags</b> 84 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 85 files that use PCRE (this may include some <b>-I</b> options, but is blank on 86 many systems). 87 </P> 88 <P> 89 <b>--cflags-posix</b> 90 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 91 files that use PCRE's POSIX API wrapper library (this may include some <b>-I</b> 92 options, but is blank on many systems). 93 </P> 94 <br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br> 95 <P> 96 <b>pcre(3)</b> 97 </P> 98 <br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br> 99 <P> 100 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux 101 system. It has been subsequently revised as a generic PCRE man page. 102 </P> 103 <br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br> 104 <P> 105 Last updated: 24 June 2012 106 <br> 107 <p> 108 Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 109 </p> 110
