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 [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix] 12 13 14DESCRIPTION 15 16 pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries 17 and the options required to compile a program to use them. 18 19 20OPTIONS 21 22 --prefix Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for 23 architecture independent files (/usr on many systems, 24 /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output. 25 26 --exec-prefix 27 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for 28 architecture dependent files (normally the same as --prefix) 29 to the standard output. 30 31 --version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to 32 the standard output. 33 34 --libs Writes to the standard output the command line options 35 required to link with PCRE (-lpcre on many systems). 36 37 --libs-posix 38 Writes to the standard output the command line options 39 required to link with the PCRE posix emulation library 40 (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many systems). 41 42 --cflags Writes to the standard output the command line options 43 required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include 44 some -I options, but is blank on many systems). 45 46 --cflags-posix 47 Writes to the standard output the command line options 48 required to compile files that use the PCRE posix emulation 49 library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on 50 many systems). 51 52 53SEE ALSO 54 55 pcre(3) 56 57 58AUTHOR 59 60 This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian 61 GNU/Linux system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man 62 page. 63 64 65REVISION 66 67 Last updated: 18 April 2007 68