1PCRE-CONFIG(1) PCRE-CONFIG(1) 2 3 4 5NAME 6 pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration 7 8SYNOPSIS 9 10 pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs] 11 [--libs16] [--libs-cpp] [--libs-posix] [--cflags] 12 [--cflags-posix] 13 14 15DESCRIPTION 16 17 pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries 18 and the options required to compile a program to use them. Some of the 19 options apply only to the 8-bit or 16-bit libraries, respectively, and 20 are not available if only one of those libraries has been built. If an 21 unavailable option is encountered, the "usage" information is output. 22 23 24OPTIONS 25 26 --prefix Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for 27 architecture independent files (/usr on many systems, 28 /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output. 29 30 --exec-prefix 31 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for 32 architecture dependent files (normally the same as --prefix) 33 to the standard output. 34 35 --version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to 36 the standard output. 37 38 --libs Writes to the standard output the command line options 39 required to link with the 8-bit PCRE library (-lpcre on many 40 systems). 41 42 --libs16 Writes to the standard output the command line options 43 required to link with the 16-bit PCRE library (-lpcre16 on 44 many systems). 45 46 --libs-cpp 47 Writes to the standard output the command line options 48 required to link with PCRE's C++ wrapper library (-lpcrecpp 49 -lpcre on many systems). 50 51 --libs-posix 52 Writes to the standard output the command line options 53 required to link with PCRE's POSIX API wrapper library 54 (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many systems). 55 56 --cflags Writes to the standard output the command line options 57 required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include 58 some -I options, but is blank on many systems). 59 60 --cflags-posix 61 Writes to the standard output the command line options 62 required to compile files that use PCRE's POSIX API wrapper 63 library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on 64 many systems). 65 66 67SEE ALSO 68 69 pcre(3) 70 71 72AUTHOR 73 74 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian 75 GNU/Linux system. It has been subsequently revised as a generic PCRE 76 man page. 77 78 79REVISION 80 81 Last updated: 01 January 2012 82