1 .TH PCRE-CONFIG 1

     2 .SH NAME

     3 pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

     4 .SH SYNOPSIS

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

     8 .ti +5n

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

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    12 .SH DESCRIPTION

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

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

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    19 .SH OPTIONS

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    21 .TP 10

    22 \fB--prefix\fP

    23 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture

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

    25 systems) to the standard output.

    26 .TP 10

    27 \fB--exec-prefix\fP

    28 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture

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

    30 .TP 10

    31 \fB--version\fP

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

    33 output.

    34 .TP 10

    35 \fB--libs\fP

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

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

    38 .TP 10

    39 \fB--libs-posix\fP

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

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

    42 systems).

    43 .TP 10

    44 \fB--cflags\fP

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

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

    47 many systems).

    48 .TP 10

    49 \fB--cflags-posix\fP

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

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

    52 options, but is blank on many systems).

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    55 .SH "SEE ALSO"

    56 .rs

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    58 \fBpcre(3)\fP

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    61 .SH AUTHOR

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    64 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux

    65 system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man page.

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    68 .SH REVISION

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    71 .nf

    72 Last updated: 18 April 2007

    73 .fi