.TH PCRE-CONFIG 1

.SH NAME

pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

.SH SYNOPSIS

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.B pcre-config  [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]

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.B              [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]

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.SH DESCRIPTION

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\fBpcre-config\fP returns the configuration of the installed PCRE

libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them.

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.SH OPTIONS

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\fB--prefix\fP

Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture

independent files (\fI/usr\fP on many systems, \fI/usr/local\fP on some

systems) to the standard output.

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\fB--exec-prefix\fP

Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture

dependent files (normally the same as \fB--prefix\fP) to the standard output.

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\fB--version\fP

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

output.

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\fB--libs\fP

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link

with PCRE (\fB-lpcre\fP on many systems).

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\fB--libs-posix\fP

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with

the PCRE posix emulation library (\fB-lpcreposix\fP \fB-lpcre\fP on many

systems).

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\fB--cflags\fP

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile

files that use PCRE (this may include some \fB-I\fP options, but is blank on

many systems).

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\fB--cflags-posix\fP

Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile

files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some \fB-I\fP

options, but is blank on many systems).

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.SH "SEE ALSO"

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\fBpcre(3)\fP

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.SH AUTHOR

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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.

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.SH REVISION

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Last updated: 18 April 2007

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