<html> <head> <title>pcre-config specification</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> <h1>pcre-config man page</h1> <p> Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. </p> <p> This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. <br> <ul> <li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">SYNOPSIS</a> <li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">DESCRIPTION</a> <li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">OPTIONS</a> <li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">SEE ALSO</a> <li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">AUTHOR</a> <li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">REVISION</a> </ul> <br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <P> <b>pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]</b> <b>[--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]</b> </P> <br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <P> <b>pcre-config</b> returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. </P> <br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">OPTIONS</a><br> <P> <b>--prefix</b> Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (<i>/usr</i> on many systems, <i>/usr/local</i> on some systems) to the standard output. </P> <P> <b>--exec-prefix</b> Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same as <b>--prefix</b>) to the standard output. </P> <P> <b>--version</b> Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard output. </P> <P> <b>--libs</b> Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE (<b>-lpcre</b> on many systems). </P> <P> <b>--libs-posix</b> Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the PCRE posix emulation library (<b>-lpcreposix</b> <b>-lpcre</b> on many systems). </P> <P> <b>--cflags</b> Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include some <b>-I</b> options, but is blank on many systems). </P> <P> <b>--cflags-posix</b> Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some <b>-I</b> options, but is blank on many systems). </P> <br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br> <P> <b>pcre(3)</b> </P> <br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br> <P> 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. </P> <br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br> <P> Last updated: 18 April 2007 <br> <p> Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. </p>
