1: Building PCRE without using autotools
2: -------------------------------------
3:
4: This document contains the following sections:
5:
6: General
7: Generic instructions for the PCRE C library
8: The C++ wrapper functions
9: Building for virtual Pascal
10: Stack size in Windows environments
11: Linking programs in Windows environments
12: Calling conventions in Windows environments
13: Comments about Win32 builds
14: Building PCRE on Windows with CMake
15: Use of relative paths with CMake on Windows
16: Testing with RunTest.bat
17: Building under Windows CE with Visual Studio 200x
18: Building under Windows with BCC5.5
19: Building using Borland C++ Builder 2007 (CB2007) and higher
20: Building PCRE on OpenVMS
21: Building PCRE on Stratus OpenVOS
22: Building PCRE on native z/OS and z/VM
23:
24:
25: GENERAL
26:
27: I (Philip Hazel) have no experience of Windows or VMS sytems and how their
28: libraries work. The items in the PCRE distribution and Makefile that relate to
29: anything other than Linux systems are untested by me.
30:
31: There are some other comments and files (including some documentation in CHM
32: format) in the Contrib directory on the FTP site:
33:
34: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Contrib
35:
36: The basic PCRE library consists entirely of code written in Standard C, and so
37: should compile successfully on any system that has a Standard C compiler and
38: library. The C++ wrapper functions are a separate issue (see below).
39:
40: The PCRE distribution includes a "configure" file for use by the configure/make
41: (autotools) build system, as found in many Unix-like environments. The README
42: file contains information about the options for "configure".
43:
44: There is also support for CMake, which some users prefer, especially in Windows
45: environments, though it can also be run in Unix-like environments. See the
46: section entitled "Building PCRE on Windows with CMake" below.
47:
48: Versions of config.h and pcre.h are distributed in the PCRE tarballs under the
49: names config.h.generic and pcre.h.generic. These are provided for those who
50: build PCRE without using "configure" or CMake. If you use "configure" or CMake,
51: the .generic versions are not used.
52:
53:
54: GENERIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PCRE C LIBRARY
55:
56: The following are generic instructions for building the PCRE C library "by
57: hand". If you are going to use CMake, this section does not apply to you; you
58: can skip ahead to the CMake section.
59:
60: (1) Copy or rename the file config.h.generic as config.h, and edit the macro
61: settings that it contains to whatever is appropriate for your environment.
62:
63: In particular, you can alter the definition of the NEWLINE macro to
64: specify what character(s) you want to be interpreted as line terminators.
65: In an EBCDIC environment, you MUST change NEWLINE, because its default
66: value is 10, an ASCII LF. The usual EBCDIC newline character is 21 (0x15,
67: NL), though in some cases it may be 37 (0x25).
68:
69: When you compile any of the PCRE modules, you must specify -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
70: to your compiler so that config.h is included in the sources.
71:
72: An alternative approach is not to edit config.h, but to use -D on the
73: compiler command line to make any changes that you need to the
74: configuration options. In this case -DHAVE_CONFIG_H must not be set.
75:
76: NOTE: There have been occasions when the way in which certain parameters
77: in config.h are used has changed between releases. (In the configure/make
78: world, this is handled automatically.) When upgrading to a new release,
79: you are strongly advised to review config.h.generic before re-using what
80: you had previously.
81:
82: (2) Copy or rename the file pcre.h.generic as pcre.h.
83:
84: (3) EITHER:
85: Copy or rename file pcre_chartables.c.dist as pcre_chartables.c.
86:
87: OR:
88: Compile dftables.c as a stand-alone program (using -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if
89: you have set up config.h), and then run it with the single argument
90: "pcre_chartables.c". This generates a set of standard character tables
91: and writes them to that file. The tables are generated using the default
92: C locale for your system. If you want to use a locale that is specified
93: by LC_xxx environment variables, add the -L option to the dftables
94: command. You must use this method if you are building on a system that
95: uses EBCDIC code.
96:
97: The tables in pcre_chartables.c are defaults. The caller of PCRE can
98: specify alternative tables at run time.
99:
100: (4) Ensure that you have the following header files:
101:
102: pcre_internal.h
103: ucp.h
104:
105: (5) For an 8-bit library, compile the following source files, setting
106: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H as a compiler option if you have set up config.h with your
107: configuration, or else use other -D settings to change the configuration
108: as required.
109:
110: pcre_byte_order.c
111: pcre_chartables.c
112: pcre_compile.c
113: pcre_config.c
114: pcre_dfa_exec.c
115: pcre_exec.c
116: pcre_fullinfo.c
117: pcre_get.c
118: pcre_globals.c
119: pcre_jit_compile.c
120: pcre_maketables.c
121: pcre_newline.c
122: pcre_ord2utf8.c
123: pcre_refcount.c
124: pcre_string_utils.c
125: pcre_study.c
126: pcre_tables.c
127: pcre_ucd.c
128: pcre_valid_utf8.c
129: pcre_version.c
130: pcre_xclass.c
131:
132: Make sure that you include -I. in the compiler command (or equivalent for
133: an unusual compiler) so that all included PCRE header files are first
134: sought in the current directory. Otherwise you run the risk of picking up
135: a previously-installed file from somewhere else.
136:
137: Note that you must still compile pcre_jit_compile.c, even if you have not
138: defined SUPPORT_JIT in config.h, because when JIT support is not
139: configured, dummy functions are compiled. When JIT support IS configured,
140: pcre_jit_compile.c #includes sources from the sljit subdirectory, where
141: there should be 16 files, all of whose names begin with "sljit".
142:
143: (6) Now link all the compiled code into an object library in whichever form
144: your system keeps such libraries. This is the basic PCRE C 8-bit library.
145: If your system has static and shared libraries, you may have to do this
146: once for each type.
147:
148: (7) If you want to build a 16-bit library (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit
149: or 32-bit libraries) repeat steps 5-6 with the following files:
150:
151: pcre16_byte_order.c
152: pcre16_chartables.c
153: pcre16_compile.c
154: pcre16_config.c
155: pcre16_dfa_exec.c
156: pcre16_exec.c
157: pcre16_fullinfo.c
158: pcre16_get.c
159: pcre16_globals.c
160: pcre16_jit_compile.c
161: pcre16_maketables.c
162: pcre16_newline.c
163: pcre16_ord2utf16.c
164: pcre16_refcount.c
165: pcre16_string_utils.c
166: pcre16_study.c
167: pcre16_tables.c
168: pcre16_ucd.c
169: pcre16_utf16_utils.c
170: pcre16_valid_utf16.c
171: pcre16_version.c
172: pcre16_xclass.c
173:
174: (8) If you want to build a 32-bit library (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit
175: or 16-bit libraries) repeat steps 5-6 with the following files:
176:
177: pcre32_byte_order.c
178: pcre32_chartables.c
179: pcre32_compile.c
180: pcre32_config.c
181: pcre32_dfa_exec.c
182: pcre32_exec.c
183: pcre32_fullinfo.c
184: pcre32_get.c
185: pcre32_globals.c
186: pcre32_jit_compile.c
187: pcre32_maketables.c
188: pcre32_newline.c
189: pcre32_ord2utf32.c
190: pcre32_refcount.c
191: pcre32_string_utils.c
192: pcre32_study.c
193: pcre32_tables.c
194: pcre32_ucd.c
195: pcre32_utf32_utils.c
196: pcre32_valid_utf32.c
197: pcre32_version.c
198: pcre32_xclass.c
199:
200: (9) If you want to build the POSIX wrapper functions (which apply only to the
201: 8-bit library), ensure that you have the pcreposix.h file and then compile
202: pcreposix.c (remembering -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if necessary). Link the result
203: (on its own) as the pcreposix library.
204:
205: (10) The pcretest program can be linked with any combination of the 8-bit,
206: 16-bit and 32-bit libraries (depending on what you selected in config.h).
207: Compile pcretest.c and pcre_printint.c (again, don't forget
208: -DHAVE_CONFIG_H) and link them together with the appropriate library/ies.
209: If you compiled an 8-bit library, pcretest also needs the pcreposix
210: wrapper library unless you compiled it with -DNOPOSIX.
211:
212: (11) Run pcretest on the testinput files in the testdata directory, and check
213: that the output matches the corresponding testoutput files. There are
214: comments about what each test does in the section entitled "Testing PCRE"
215: in the README file. If you compiled more than one of the 8-bit, 16-bit and
216: 32-bit libraries, you need to run pcretest with the -16 option to do
217: 16-bit tests and with the -32 option to do 32-bit tests.
218:
219: Some tests are relevant only when certain build-time options are selected.
220: For example, test 4 is for UTF-8/UTF-16/UTF-32 support, and will not run
221: if you have built PCRE without it. See the comments at the start of each
222: testinput file. If you have a suitable Unix-like shell, the RunTest script
223: will run the appropriate tests for you. The command "RunTest list" will
224: output a list of all the tests.
225:
226: Note that the supplied files are in Unix format, with just LF characters
227: as line terminators. You may need to edit them to change this if your
228: system uses a different convention. If you are using Windows, you probably
229: should use the wintestinput3 file instead of testinput3 (and the
230: corresponding output file). This is a locale test; wintestinput3 sets the
231: locale to "french" rather than "fr_FR", and there some minor output
232: differences.
233:
234: (12) If you have built PCRE with SUPPORT_JIT, the JIT features will be tested
235: by the testdata files. However, you might also like to build and run
236: the freestanding JIT test program, pcre_jit_test.c.
237:
238: (13) If you want to use the pcregrep command, compile and link pcregrep.c; it
239: uses only the basic 8-bit PCRE library (it does not need the pcreposix
240: library).
241:
242:
243: THE C++ WRAPPER FUNCTIONS
244:
245: The PCRE distribution also contains some C++ wrapper functions and tests,
246: applicable to the 8-bit library, which were contributed by Google Inc. On a
247: system that can use "configure" and "make", the functions are automatically
248: built into a library called pcrecpp. It should be straightforward to compile
249: the .cc files manually on other systems. The files called xxx_unittest.cc are
250: test programs for each of the corresponding xxx.cc files.
251:
252:
253: BUILDING FOR VIRTUAL PASCAL
254:
255: A script for building PCRE using Borland's C++ compiler for use with VPASCAL
256: was contributed by Alexander Tokarev. Stefan Weber updated the script and added
257: additional files. The following files in the distribution are for building PCRE
258: for use with VP/Borland: makevp_c.txt, makevp_l.txt, makevp.bat, pcregexp.pas.
259:
260:
261: STACK SIZE IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS
262:
263: The default processor stack size of 1Mb in some Windows environments is too
264: small for matching patterns that need much recursion. In particular, test 2 may
265: fail because of this. Normally, running out of stack causes a crash, but there
266: have been cases where the test program has just died silently. See your linker
267: documentation for how to increase stack size if you experience problems. The
268: Linux default of 8Mb is a reasonable choice for the stack, though even that can
269: be too small for some pattern/subject combinations.
270:
271: PCRE has a compile configuration option to disable the use of stack for
272: recursion so that heap is used instead. However, pattern matching is
273: significantly slower when this is done. There is more about stack usage in the
274: "pcrestack" documentation.
275:
276:
277: LINKING PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS
278:
279: If you want to statically link a program against a PCRE library in the form of
280: a non-dll .a file, you must define PCRE_STATIC before including pcre.h or
281: pcrecpp.h, otherwise the pcre_malloc() and pcre_free() exported functions will
282: be declared __declspec(dllimport), with unwanted results.
283:
284:
285: CALLING CONVENTIONS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS
286:
287: It is possible to compile programs to use different calling conventions using
288: MSVC. Search the web for "calling conventions" for more information. To make it
289: easier to change the calling convention for the exported functions in the
290: PCRE library, the macro PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION is present in all the external
291: definitions. It can be set externally when compiling (e.g. in CFLAGS). If it is
292: not set, it defaults to empty; the default calling convention is then used
293: (which is what is wanted most of the time).
294:
295:
296: COMMENTS ABOUT WIN32 BUILDS (see also "BUILDING PCRE ON WINDOWS WITH CMAKE")
297:
298: There are two ways of building PCRE using the "configure, make, make install"
299: paradigm on Windows systems: using MinGW or using Cygwin. These are not at all
300: the same thing; they are completely different from each other. There is also
301: support for building using CMake, which some users find a more straightforward
302: way of building PCRE under Windows.
303:
304: The MinGW home page (http://www.mingw.org/) says this:
305:
306: MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows
307: specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that
308: allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any
309: 3rd-party C runtime DLLs.
310:
311: The Cygwin home page (http://www.cygwin.com/) says this:
312:
313: Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts:
314:
315: . A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing
316: substantial Linux API functionality
317:
318: . A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.
319:
320: The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32
321: bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, with the exception of Windows CE.
322:
323: On both MinGW and Cygwin, PCRE should build correctly using:
324:
325: ./configure && make && make install
326:
327: This should create two libraries called libpcre and libpcreposix, and, if you
328: have enabled building the C++ wrapper, a third one called libpcrecpp. These are
329: independent libraries: when you link with libpcreposix or libpcrecpp you must
330: also link with libpcre, which contains the basic functions. (Some earlier
331: releases of PCRE included the basic libpcre functions in libpcreposix. This no
332: longer happens.)
333:
334: A user submitted a special-purpose patch that makes it easy to create
335: "pcre.dll" under mingw32 using the "msys" environment. It provides "pcre.dll"
336: as a special target. If you use this target, no other files are built, and in
337: particular, the pcretest and pcregrep programs are not built. An example of how
338: this might be used is:
339:
340: ./configure --enable-utf --disable-cpp CFLAGS="-03 -s"; make pcre.dll
341:
342: Using Cygwin's compiler generates libraries and executables that depend on
343: cygwin1.dll. If a library that is generated this way is distributed,
344: cygwin1.dll has to be distributed as well. Since cygwin1.dll is under the GPL
345: licence, this forces not only PCRE to be under the GPL, but also the entire
346: application. A distributor who wants to keep their own code proprietary must
347: purchase an appropriate Cygwin licence.
348:
349: MinGW has no such restrictions. The MinGW compiler generates a library or
350: executable that can run standalone on Windows without any third party dll or
351: licensing issues.
352:
353: But there is more complication:
354:
355: If a Cygwin user uses the -mno-cygwin Cygwin gcc flag, what that really does is
356: to tell Cygwin's gcc to use the MinGW gcc. Cygwin's gcc is only acting as a
357: front end to MinGW's gcc (if you install Cygwin's gcc, you get both Cygwin's
358: gcc and MinGW's gcc). So, a user can:
359:
360: . Build native binaries by using MinGW or by getting Cygwin and using
361: -mno-cygwin.
362:
363: . Build binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll by using Cygwin with the normal
364: compiler flags.
365:
366: The test files that are supplied with PCRE are in UNIX format, with LF
367: characters as line terminators. Unless your PCRE library uses a default newline
368: option that includes LF as a valid newline, it may be necessary to change the
369: line terminators in the test files to get some of the tests to work.
370:
371:
372: BUILDING PCRE ON WINDOWS WITH CMAKE
373:
374: CMake is an alternative configuration facility that can be used instead of
375: "configure". CMake creates project files (make files, solution files, etc.)
376: tailored to numerous development environments, including Visual Studio,
377: Borland, Msys, MinGW, NMake, and Unix. If possible, use short paths with no
378: spaces in the names for your CMake installation and your PCRE source and build
379: directories.
380:
381: The following instructions were contributed by a PCRE user. If they are not
382: followed exactly, errors may occur. In the event that errors do occur, it is
383: recommended that you delete the CMake cache before attempting to repeat the
384: CMake build process. In the CMake GUI, the cache can be deleted by selecting
385: "File > Delete Cache".
386:
387: 1. Install the latest CMake version available from http://www.cmake.org/, and
388: ensure that cmake\bin is on your path.
389:
390: 2. Unzip (retaining folder structure) the PCRE source tree into a source
391: directory such as C:\pcre. You should ensure your local date and time
392: is not earlier than the file dates in your source dir if the release is
393: very new.
394:
395: 3. Create a new, empty build directory, preferably a subdirectory of the
396: source dir. For example, C:\pcre\pcre-xx\build.
397:
398: 4. Run cmake-gui from the Shell envirornment of your build tool, for example,
399: Msys for Msys/MinGW or Visual Studio Command Prompt for VC/VC++. Do not try
400: to start Cmake from the Windows Start menu, as this can lead to errors.
401:
402: 5. Enter C:\pcre\pcre-xx and C:\pcre\pcre-xx\build for the source and build
403: directories, respectively.
404:
405: 6. Hit the "Configure" button.
406:
407: 7. Select the particular IDE / build tool that you are using (Visual
408: Studio, MSYS makefiles, MinGW makefiles, etc.)
409:
410: 8. The GUI will then list several configuration options. This is where
411: you can enable UTF-8 support or other PCRE optional features.
412:
413: 9. Hit "Configure" again. The adjacent "Generate" button should now be
414: active.
415:
416: 10. Hit "Generate".
417:
418: 11. The build directory should now contain a usable build system, be it a
419: solution file for Visual Studio, makefiles for MinGW, etc. Exit from
420: cmake-gui and use the generated build system with your compiler or IDE.
421: E.g., for MinGW you can run "make", or for Visual Studio, open the PCRE
422: solution, select the desired configuration (Debug, or Release, etc.) and
423: build the ALL_BUILD project.
424:
425: 12. If during configuration with cmake-gui you've elected to build the test
426: programs, you can execute them by building the test project. E.g., for
427: MinGW: "make test"; for Visual Studio build the RUN_TESTS project. The
428: most recent build configuration is targeted by the tests. A summary of
429: test results is presented. Complete test output is subsequently
430: available for review in Testing\Temporary under your build dir.
431:
432:
433: USE OF RELATIVE PATHS WITH CMAKE ON WINDOWS
434:
435: A PCRE user comments as follows: I thought that others may want to know the
436: current state of CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS support on Windows. Here it is:
437:
438: -- AdditionalIncludeDirectories is only partially modified (only the
439: first path - see below)
440: -- Only some of the contained file paths are modified - shown below for
441: pcre.vcproj
442: -- It properly modifies
443:
444: I am sure CMake people can fix that if they want to. Until then one will
445: need to replace existing absolute paths in project files with relative
446: paths manually (e.g. from VS) - relative to project file location. I did
447: just that before being told to try CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS. Not a big
448: deal.
449:
450: AdditionalIncludeDirectories="E:\builds\pcre\build;E:\builds\pcre\pcre-7.5;"
451: AdditionalIncludeDirectories=".;E:\builds\pcre\pcre-7.5;"
452:
453: RelativePath="pcre.h"
454: RelativePath="pcre_chartables.c"
455: RelativePath="pcre_chartables.c.rule"
456:
457:
458: TESTING WITH RUNTEST.BAT
459:
460: If configured with CMake, building the test project ("make test" or building
461: ALL_TESTS in Visual Studio) creates (and runs) pcre_test.bat (and depending
462: on your configuration options, possibly other test programs) in the build
463: directory. Pcre_test.bat runs RunTest.Bat with correct source and exe paths.
464:
465: For manual testing with RunTest.bat, provided the build dir is a subdirectory
466: of the source directory: Open command shell window. Chdir to the location
467: of your pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe programs. Call RunTest.bat with
468: "..\RunTest.Bat" or "..\..\RunTest.bat" as appropriate.
469:
470: To run only a particular test with RunTest.Bat provide a test number argument.
471:
472: Otherwise:
473:
474: 1. Copy RunTest.bat into the directory where pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe
475: have been created.
476:
477: 2. Edit RunTest.bat to indentify the full or relative location of
478: the pcre source (wherein which the testdata folder resides), e.g.:
479:
480: set srcdir=C:\pcre\pcre-8.20
481:
482: 3. In a Windows command environment, chdir to the location of your bat and
483: exe programs.
484:
485: 4. Run RunTest.bat. Test outputs will automatically be compared to expected
486: results, and discrepancies will be identified in the console output.
487:
488: To independently test the just-in-time compiler, run pcre_jit_test.exe.
489: To test pcrecpp, run pcrecpp_unittest.exe, pcre_stringpiece_unittest.exe and
490: pcre_scanner_unittest.exe.
491:
492:
493: BUILDING UNDER WINDOWS CE WITH VISUAL STUDIO 200x
494:
495: Vincent Richomme sent a zip archive of files to help with this process. They
496: can be found in the file "pcre-vsbuild.zip" in the Contrib directory of the FTP
497: site.
498:
499:
500: BUILDING UNDER WINDOWS WITH BCC5.5
501:
502: Michael Roy sent these comments about building PCRE under Windows with BCC5.5:
503:
504: Some of the core BCC libraries have a version of PCRE from 1998 built in, which
505: can lead to pcre_exec() giving an erroneous PCRE_ERROR_NULL from a version
506: mismatch. I'm including an easy workaround below, if you'd like to include it
507: in the non-unix instructions:
508:
509: When linking a project with BCC5.5, pcre.lib must be included before any of the
510: libraries cw32.lib, cw32i.lib, cw32mt.lib, and cw32mti.lib on the command line.
511:
512:
513: BUILDING USING BORLAND C++ BUILDER 2007 (CB2007) AND HIGHER
514:
515: A PCRE user sent these comments about this environment (see also the comment
516: from another user that follows them):
517:
518: The XE versions of C++ Builder come with a RegularExpressionsCore class which
519: contain a version of TPerlRegEx. However, direct use of the C PCRE library may
520: be desirable.
521:
522: The default makevp.bat, however, supplied with PCRE builds a version of PCRE
523: that is not usable with any version of C++ Builder because the compiler ships
524: with an embedded version of PCRE, version 2.01 from 1998! [See also the note
525: about BCC5.5 above.] If you want to use PCRE you'll need to rename the
526: functions (pcre_compile to pcre_compile_bcc, etc) or do as I have done and just
527: use the 16 bit versions. I'm using std::wstring everywhere anyway. Since the
528: embedded version of PCRE does not have the 16 bit function names, there is no
529: conflict.
530:
531: Building PCRE using a C++ Builder static library project file (recommended):
532:
533: 1. Rename or remove pcre.h, pcreposi.h, and pcreposix.h from your C++ Builder
534: original include path.
535:
536: 2. Download PCRE from pcre.org and extract to a directory.
537:
538: 3. Rename pcre_chartables.c.dist to pcre_chartables.c, pcre.h.generic to
539: pcre.h, and config.h.generic to config.h.
540:
541: 4. Edit pcre.h and pcre_config.c so that they include config.h.
542:
543: 5. Edit config.h like so:
544:
545: Comment out the following lines:
546: #define PACKAGE "pcre"
547: #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
548: #define PACKAGE_NAME "PCRE"
549: #define PACKAGE_STRING "PCRE 8.32"
550: #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "pcre"
551: #define PACKAGE_URL ""
552: #define PACKAGE_VERSION "8.32"
553:
554: Add the following lines:
555: #ifndef SUPPORT_UTF
556: #define SUPPORT_UTF 100 // any value is fine
557: #endif
558:
559: #ifndef SUPPORT_UCP
560: #define SUPPORT_UCP 101 // any value is fine
561: #endif
562:
563: #ifndef SUPPORT_UCP
564: #define SUPPORT_PCRE16 102 // any value is fine
565: #endif
566:
567: #ifndef SUPPORT_UTF8
568: #define SUPPORT_UTF8 103 // any value is fine
569: #endif
570:
571: 6. Build a C++ Builder project using the IDE. Go to File / New / Other and
572: choose Static Library. You can name it pcre.cbproj or whatever. Now set your
573: paths by going to Project / Options. Set the Include path. Do this from the
574: "Base" option to apply to both Release and Debug builds. Now add the following
575: files to the project:
576:
577: pcre.h
578: pcre16_byte_order.c
579: pcre16_chartables.c
580: pcre16_compile.c
581: pcre16_config.c
582: pcre16_dfa_exec.c
583: pcre16_exec.c
584: pcre16_fullinfo.c
585: pcre16_get.c
586: pcre16_globals.c
587: pcre16_maketables.c
588: pcre16_newline.c
589: pcre16_ord2utf16.c
590: pcre16_printint.c
591: pcre16_refcount.c
592: pcre16_string_utils.c
593: pcre16_study.c
594: pcre16_tables.c
595: pcre16_ucd.c
596: pcre16_utf16_utils.c
597: pcre16_valid_utf16.c
598: pcre16_version.c
599: pcre16_xclass.c
600:
601: //Optional
602: pcre_version.c
603:
604: 7. After compiling the .lib file, copy the .lib and header files to a project
605: you want to use PCRE with. Enjoy.
606:
607: Optional ... Building PCRE using the makevp.bat file:
608:
609: 1. Edit makevp_c.txt and makevp_l.txt and change all the names to the 16 bit
610: versions.
611:
612: 2. Edit makevp.bat and set the path to C++ Builder. Run makevp.bat.
613:
614: Another PCRE user added this comment:
615:
616: Another approach I successfully used for some years with BCB 5 and 6 was to
617: make sure that include and library paths of PCRE are configured before the
618: default paths of the IDE in the dialogs where one can manage those paths.
619: Afterwards one can open the project files using a text editor and manually add
620: the self created library for pcre itself, pcrecpp doesn't ship with the IDE, in
621: the library nodes where the IDE manages its own libraries to link against in
622: front of the IDE-own libraries. This way one can use the default PCRE function
623: names without getting access violations on runtime.
624:
625: <ALLLIB value="libpcre.lib $(LIBFILES) $(LIBRARIES) import32.lib cp32mt.lib"/>
626:
627:
628: BUILDING PCRE ON OPENVMS
629:
630: Stephen Hoffman sent the following, in December 2012:
631:
632: "Here <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1847> is a very short write-up on the
633: OpenVMS port and here
634:
635: <http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/labsnotes/pcre-vms-8_32.zip>
636:
637: is a zip with the OpenVMS files, and with one modified testing-related PCRE
638: file." This is a port of PCRE 8.32.
639:
640: Earlier, Dan Mooney sent the following comments about building PCRE on OpenVMS.
641: They relate to an older version of PCRE that used fewer source files, so the
642: exact commands will need changing. See the current list of source files above.
643:
644: "It was quite easy to compile and link the library. I don't have a formal
645: make file but the attached file [reproduced below] contains the OpenVMS DCL
646: commands I used to build the library. I had to add #define
647: POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD 10 to pcre.h since it was not defined anywhere.
648:
649: The library was built on:
650: O/S: HP OpenVMS v7.3-1
651: Compiler: Compaq C v6.5-001-48BCD
652: Linker: vA13-01
653:
654: The test results did not match 100% due to the issues you mention in your
655: documentation regarding isprint(), iscntrl(), isgraph() and ispunct(). I
656: modified some of the character tables temporarily and was able to get the
657: results to match. Tests using the fr locale did not match since I don't have
658: that locale loaded. The study size was always reported to be 3 less than the
659: value in the standard test output files."
660:
661: =========================
662: $! This DCL procedure builds PCRE on OpenVMS
663: $!
664: $! I followed the instructions in the non-unix-use file in the distribution.
665: $!
666: $ COMPILE == "CC/LIST/NOMEMBER_ALIGNMENT/PREFIX_LIBRARY_ENTRIES=ALL_ENTRIES
667: $ COMPILE DFTABLES.C
668: $ LINK/EXE=DFTABLES.EXE DFTABLES.OBJ
669: $ RUN DFTABLES.EXE/OUTPUT=CHARTABLES.C
670: $ COMPILE MAKETABLES.C
671: $ COMPILE GET.C
672: $ COMPILE STUDY.C
673: $! I had to set POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD to 10 in PCRE.H since the symbol
674: $! did not seem to be defined anywhere.
675: $! I edited pcre.h and added #DEFINE SUPPORT_UTF8 to enable UTF8 support.
676: $ COMPILE PCRE.C
677: $ LIB/CREATE PCRE MAKETABLES.OBJ, GET.OBJ, STUDY.OBJ, PCRE.OBJ
678: $! I had to set POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD to 10 in PCRE.H since the symbol
679: $! did not seem to be defined anywhere.
680: $ COMPILE PCREPOSIX.C
681: $ LIB/CREATE PCREPOSIX PCREPOSIX.OBJ
682: $ COMPILE PCRETEST.C
683: $ LINK/EXE=PCRETEST.EXE PCRETEST.OBJ, PCRE/LIB, PCREPOSIX/LIB
684: $! C programs that want access to command line arguments must be
685: $! defined as a symbol
686: $ PCRETEST :== "$ SYS$ROADSUSERS:[DMOONEY.REGEXP]PCRETEST.EXE"
687: $! Arguments must be enclosed in quotes.
688: $ PCRETEST "-C"
689: $! Test results:
690: $!
691: $! The test results did not match 100%. The functions isprint(), iscntrl(),
692: $! isgraph() and ispunct() on OpenVMS must not produce the same results
693: $! as the system that built the test output files provided with the
694: $! distribution.
695: $!
696: $! The study size did not match and was always 3 less on OpenVMS.
697: $!
698: $! Locale could not be set to fr
699: $!
700: =========================
701:
702:
703: BUILDING PCRE ON STRATUS OPENVOS
704:
705: These notes on the port of PCRE to VOS (lightly edited) were supplied by
706: Ashutosh Warikoo, whose email address has the local part awarikoo and the
707: domain nse.co.in. The port was for version 7.9 in August 2009.
708:
709: 1. Building PCRE
710:
711: I built pcre on OpenVOS Release 17.0.1at using GNU Tools 3.4a without any
712: problems. I used the following packages to build PCRE:
713:
714: ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/posix.save.evf.gz
715:
716: Please read and follow the instructions that come with these packages. To start
717: the build of pcre, from the root of the package type:
718:
719: ./build.sh
720:
721: 2. Installing PCRE
722:
723: Once you have successfully built PCRE, login to the SysAdmin group, switch to
724: the root user, and type
725:
726: [ !create_dir (master_disk)>usr --if needed ]
727: [ !create_dir (master_disk)>usr>local --if needed ]
728: !gmake install
729:
730: This installs PCRE and its man pages into /usr/local. You can add
731: (master_disk)>usr>local>bin to your command search paths, or if you are in
732: BASH, add /usr/local/bin to the PATH environment variable.
733:
734: 4. Restrictions
735:
736: This port requires readline library optionally. However during the build I
737: faced some yet unexplored errors while linking with readline. As it was an
738: optional component I chose to disable it.
739:
740: 5. Known Problems
741:
742: I ran the test suite, but you will have to be your own judge of whether this
743: command, and this port, suits your purposes. If you find any problems that
744: appear to be related to the port itself, please let me know. Please see the
745: build.log file in the root of the package also.
746:
747:
748: BUILDING PCRE ON NATIVE Z/OS AND Z/VM
749:
750: z/OS and z/VM are operating systems for mainframe computers, produced by IBM.
751: The character code used is EBCDIC, not ASCII or Unicode. In z/OS, UNIX APIs and
752: applications can be supported through UNIX System Services, and in such an
753: environment PCRE can be built in the same way as in other systems. However, in
754: native z/OS (without UNIX System Services) and in z/VM, special ports are
755: required. For details, please see this web site:
756:
757: http://www.zaconsultants.net
758:
759: There is also a mirror here:
760:
761: http://www.vsoft-software.com/downloads.html
762:
763: ==========================
764: Last Updated: 14 May 2013
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