PCRE-CONFIG(1)                                                                                                    PCRE-CONFIG(1)



NAME
       pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

SYNOPSIS

       pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]
            [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]

DESCRIPTION

       pcre-config  returns  the  configuration of the installed PCRE libraries and the options required to compile a program to
       use them.

OPTIONS

       --prefix  Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (/usr on many sys-
                 tems, /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output.

       --exec-prefix
                 Writes  the  directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same
                 as --prefix) to the standard output.

       --version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard output.

       --libs    Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE (-lpcre on many systems).

       --libs-posix
                 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the PCRE posix  emulation  library
                 (-lpcreposix -lpcre on many systems).

       --cflags  Writes  to  the  standard  output  the  command  line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this may
                 include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

       --cflags-posix
                 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use the PCRE posix emula-
                 tion library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

SEE ALSO

       pcre(3)

AUTHOR

       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.

REVISION

       Last updated: 18 April 2007



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