pcre-config(1) [x11r4 man page]

PCRE-CONFIG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    PCRE-CONFIG(1)

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

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