PCRE-CONFIG

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pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

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

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

--prefix: Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architectureindependent files (/usr on many systems, /usr/local on somesystems) to the standard output.
--exec-prefix: Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecturedependent files (normally the same as --prefix) to the standard output.
--version: Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standardoutput.
--libs: Writes to the standard output the command line options required to linkwith PCRE (-lpcre on many systems).
--libs-posix: Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link withthe PCRE posix emulation library (-lpcreposix -lpcre on manysystems).
--cflags: Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compilefiles that use PCRE (this may include some -I options, but is blank onmany systems).
--cflags-posix: Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compilefiles that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some -Ioptions, but is blank on many systems).

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

Last updated: 18 April 2007

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