1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre-config specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre-config man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically 12from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the 13man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<ul> 16<li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">SYNOPSIS</a> 17<li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">DESCRIPTION</a> 18<li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">OPTIONS</a> 19<li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">SEE ALSO</a> 20<li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">AUTHOR</a> 21<li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">REVISION</a> 22</ul> 23<br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">SYNOPSIS</a><br> 24<P> 25<b>pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]</b> 26<b>[--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]</b> 27</P> 28<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</a><br> 29<P> 30<b>pcre-config</b> returns the configuration of the installed PCRE 31libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. 32</P> 33<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">OPTIONS</a><br> 34<P> 35<b>--prefix</b> 36Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture 37independent files (<i>/usr</i> on many systems, <i>/usr/local</i> on some 38systems) to the standard output. 39</P> 40<P> 41<b>--exec-prefix</b> 42Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture 43dependent files (normally the same as <b>--prefix</b>) to the standard output. 44</P> 45<P> 46<b>--version</b> 47Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard 48output. 49</P> 50<P> 51<b>--libs</b> 52Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 53with PCRE (<b>-lpcre</b> on many systems). 54</P> 55<P> 56<b>--libs-posix</b> 57Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with 58the PCRE posix emulation library (<b>-lpcreposix</b> <b>-lpcre</b> on many 59systems). 60</P> 61<P> 62<b>--cflags</b> 63Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 64files that use PCRE (this may include some <b>-I</b> options, but is blank on 65many systems). 66</P> 67<P> 68<b>--cflags-posix</b> 69Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 70files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some <b>-I</b> 71options, but is blank on many systems). 72</P> 73<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br> 74<P> 75<b>pcre(3)</b> 76</P> 77<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br> 78<P> 79This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux 80system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man page. 81</P> 82<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br> 83<P> 84Last updated: 18 April 2007 85<br> 86<p> 87Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>. 88</p> 89