Name

pcre-config — program to return PCRE configuration

Synopsis

pcre-config [−−prefix] [−−exec−prefix] [−−version] [−−libs] [−−libs−posix] [−−cflags] [−−cflags−posix]

DESCRIPTION

pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them.

OPTIONS

−−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 PCRE (−lpcre on many systems).

−−libs-posix

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the PCRE posix emulation 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 the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some −I options, but is blank on many systems).

SEE ALSO

pcre(3)

AUTHOR

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

REVISION

Last updated: 18 April 2007
COPYRIGHT

This manual page is taken from the PCRE library, which is distributed under the BSD license.