Man1 - pcre-config.1

pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

  pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]
   [--libs16] [--libs32] [--libs-cpp] [--libs-posix]
   [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]

pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. Some of the options apply only to the 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit libraries, respectively, and are not available if only one of those libraries has been built. If an unavailable option is encountered, the “usage” information is output.

–prefix

Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (/usr on many systems, /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output.

–exec-prefix

Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same as –prefix) to the standard output.

–version

Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard output.

–libs

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the 8-bit PCRE library (-lpcre on many systems).

–libs16

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the 16-bit PCRE library (-lpcre16 on many systems).

–libs32

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the 32-bit PCRE library (-lpcre32 on many systems).

–libs-cpp

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE’s C++ wrapper library (-lpcrecpp -lpcre on many systems).

–libs-posix

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE’s POSIX API wrapper library (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many systems).

–cflags

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

–cflags-posix

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE’s POSIX API wrapper library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

pcre(3)

This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It has been subsequently revised as a generic PCRE man page.

  Last updated: 24 June 2012