--- embedaddon/pcre/NON-UNIX-USE 2012/02/21 23:05:51 1.1.1.1 +++ embedaddon/pcre/NON-UNIX-USE 2013/07/22 08:25:55 1.1.1.3 @@ -1,551 +1,7 @@ Compiling PCRE on non-Unix systems ---------------------------------- -This document contains the following sections: +This has been renamed to better reflect its contents. Please see the file +NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD for details of how to build PCRE without using autotools. - General - Generic instructions for the PCRE C library - The C++ wrapper functions - Building for virtual Pascal - Stack size in Windows environments - Linking programs in Windows environments - Comments about Win32 builds - Building PCRE on Windows with CMake - Use of relative paths with CMake on Windows - Testing with RunTest.bat - Building under Windows with BCC5.5 - Building PCRE on OpenVMS - Building PCRE on Stratus OpenVOS - - -GENERAL - -I (Philip Hazel) have no experience of Windows or VMS sytems and how their -libraries work. The items in the PCRE distribution and Makefile that relate to -anything other than Unix-like systems are untested by me. - -There are some other comments and files (including some documentation in CHM -format) in the Contrib directory on the FTP site: - - ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Contrib - -If you want to compile PCRE for a non-Unix system (especially for a system that -does not support "configure" and "make" files), note that the basic PCRE -library consists entirely of code written in Standard C, and so should compile -successfully on any system that has a Standard C compiler and library. The C++ -wrapper functions are a separate issue (see below). - -The PCRE distribution includes a "configure" file for use by the Configure/Make -build system, as found in many Unix-like environments. There is also support -for CMake, which some users prefer, especially in Windows environments. See -the instructions for CMake under Windows in the section entitled "Building -PCRE with CMake" below. CMake can also be used to build PCRE in Unix-like -systems. - - -GENERIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PCRE C LIBRARY - -The following are generic instructions for building the PCRE C library "by -hand": - - (1) Copy or rename the file config.h.generic as config.h, and edit the macro - settings that it contains to whatever is appropriate for your environment. - In particular, if you want to force a specific value for newline, you can - define the NEWLINE macro. When you compile any of the PCRE modules, you - must specify -DHAVE_CONFIG_H to your compiler so that config.h is included - in the sources. - - An alternative approach is not to edit config.h, but to use -D on the - compiler command line to make any changes that you need to the - configuration options. In this case -DHAVE_CONFIG_H must not be set. - - NOTE: There have been occasions when the way in which certain parameters - in config.h are used has changed between releases. (In the configure/make - world, this is handled automatically.) When upgrading to a new release, - you are strongly advised to review config.h.generic before re-using what - you had previously. - - (2) Copy or rename the file pcre.h.generic as pcre.h. - - (3) EITHER: - Copy or rename file pcre_chartables.c.dist as pcre_chartables.c. - - OR: - Compile dftables.c as a stand-alone program (using -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if - you have set up config.h), and then run it with the single argument - "pcre_chartables.c". This generates a set of standard character tables - and writes them to that file. The tables are generated using the default - C locale for your system. If you want to use a locale that is specified - by LC_xxx environment variables, add the -L option to the dftables - command. You must use this method if you are building on a system that - uses EBCDIC code. - - The tables in pcre_chartables.c are defaults. The caller of PCRE can - specify alternative tables at run time. - - (4) Ensure that you have the following header files: - - pcre_internal.h - ucp.h - - (5) Also ensure that you have the following file, which is #included as source - when building a debugging version of PCRE, and is also used by pcretest. - - pcre_printint.src - - (6) Compile the following source files, setting -DHAVE_CONFIG_H as a compiler - option if you have set up config.h with your configuration, or else use - other -D settings to change the configuration as required. - - pcre_chartables.c - pcre_compile.c - pcre_config.c - pcre_dfa_exec.c - pcre_exec.c - pcre_fullinfo.c - pcre_get.c - pcre_globals.c - pcre_info.c - pcre_maketables.c - pcre_newline.c - pcre_ord2utf8.c - pcre_refcount.c - pcre_study.c - pcre_tables.c - pcre_try_flipped.c - pcre_ucd.c - pcre_valid_utf8.c - pcre_version.c - pcre_xclass.c - - Make sure that you include -I. in the compiler command (or equivalent for - an unusual compiler) so that all included PCRE header files are first - sought in the current directory. Otherwise you run the risk of picking up - a previously-installed file from somewhere else. - - (7) If you have defined SUPPORT_JIT in config.h, you must also compile - - pcre_jit_compile.c - - This file #includes sources from the sljit subdirectory, where there - should be 16 files, all of whose names begin with "sljit". - - (8) Now link all the compiled code into an object library in whichever form - your system keeps such libraries. This is the basic PCRE C library. If - your system has static and shared libraries, you may have to do this once - for each type. - - (9) Similarly, if you want to build the POSIX wrapper functions, ensure that - you have the pcreposix.h file and then compile pcreposix.c (remembering - -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if necessary). Link the result (on its own) as the - pcreposix library. - -(10) Compile the test program pcretest.c (again, don't forget -DHAVE_CONFIG_H). - This needs the functions in the PCRE library when linking. It also needs - the pcreposix wrapper functions unless you compile it with -DNOPOSIX. The - pcretest.c program also needs the pcre_printint.src source file, which it - #includes. - -(11) Run pcretest on the testinput files in the testdata directory, and check - that the output matches the corresponding testoutput files. Some tests are - relevant only when certain build-time options are selected. For example, - test 4 is for UTF-8 support, and will not run if you have build PCRE - without it. See the comments at the start of each testinput file. If you - have a suitable Unix-like shell, the RunTest script will run the - appropriate tests for you. - - Note that the supplied files are in Unix format, with just LF characters - as line terminators. You may need to edit them to change this if your - system uses a different convention. If you are using Windows, you probably - should use the wintestinput3 file instead of testinput3 (and the - corresponding output file). This is a locale test; wintestinput3 sets the - locale to "french" rather than "fr_FR", and there some minor output - differences. - -(12) If you have built PCRE with SUPPORT_JIT, the JIT features will be tested - by the testdata files. However, you might also like to build and run - the JIT test program, pcre_jit_test.c. - -(13) If you want to use the pcregrep command, compile and link pcregrep.c; it - uses only the basic PCRE library (it does not need the pcreposix library). - - -THE C++ WRAPPER FUNCTIONS - -The PCRE distribution also contains some C++ wrapper functions and tests, -contributed by Google Inc. On a system that can use "configure" and "make", -the functions are automatically built into a library called pcrecpp. It should -be straightforward to compile the .cc files manually on other systems. The -files called xxx_unittest.cc are test programs for each of the corresponding -xxx.cc files. - - -BUILDING FOR VIRTUAL PASCAL - -A script for building PCRE using Borland's C++ compiler for use with VPASCAL -was contributed by Alexander Tokarev. Stefan Weber updated the script and added -additional files. The following files in the distribution are for building PCRE -for use with VP/Borland: makevp_c.txt, makevp_l.txt, makevp.bat, pcregexp.pas. - - -STACK SIZE IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS - -The default processor stack size of 1Mb in some Windows environments is too -small for matching patterns that need much recursion. In particular, test 2 may -fail because of this. Normally, running out of stack causes a crash, but there -have been cases where the test program has just died silently. See your linker -documentation for how to increase stack size if you experience problems. The -Linux default of 8Mb is a reasonable choice for the stack, though even that can -be too small for some pattern/subject combinations. - -PCRE has a compile configuration option to disable the use of stack for -recursion so that heap is used instead. However, pattern matching is -significantly slower when this is done. There is more about stack usage in the -"pcrestack" documentation. - - -LINKING PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS - -If you want to statically link a program against a PCRE library in the form of -a non-dll .a file, you must define PCRE_STATIC before including pcre.h or -pcrecpp.h, otherwise the pcre_malloc() and pcre_free() exported functions will -be declared __declspec(dllimport), with unwanted results. - - -CALLING CONVENTIONS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS - -It is possible to compile programs to use different calling conventions using -MSVC. Search the web for "calling conventions" for more information. To make it -easier to change the calling convention for the exported functions in the -PCRE library, the macro PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION is present in all the external -definitions. It can be set externally when compiling (e.g. in CFLAGS). If it is -not set, it defaults to empty; the default calling convention is then used -(which is what is wanted most of the time). - - -COMMENTS ABOUT WIN32 BUILDS (see also "BUILDING PCRE WITH CMAKE" below) - -There are two ways of building PCRE using the "configure, make, make install" -paradigm on Windows systems: using MinGW or using Cygwin. These are not at all -the same thing; they are completely different from each other. There is also -support for building using CMake, which some users find a more straightforward -way of building PCRE under Windows. - -The MinGW home page (http://www.mingw.org/) says this: - - MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows - specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that - allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any - 3rd-party C runtime DLLs. - -The Cygwin home page (http://www.cygwin.com/) says this: - - Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: - - . A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing - substantial Linux API functionality - - . A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel. - - The Cygwin DLL currently works with all recent, commercially released x86 32 - bit and 64 bit versions of Windows, with the exception of Windows CE. - -On both MinGW and Cygwin, PCRE should build correctly using: - - ./configure && make && make install - -This should create two libraries called libpcre and libpcreposix, and, if you -have enabled building the C++ wrapper, a third one called libpcrecpp. These are -independent libraries: when you link with libpcreposix or libpcrecpp you must -also link with libpcre, which contains the basic functions. (Some earlier -releases of PCRE included the basic libpcre functions in libpcreposix. This no -longer happens.) - -A user submitted a special-purpose patch that makes it easy to create -"pcre.dll" under mingw32 using the "msys" environment. It provides "pcre.dll" -as a special target. If you use this target, no other files are built, and in -particular, the pcretest and pcregrep programs are not built. An example of how -this might be used is: - - ./configure --enable-utf --disable-cpp CFLAGS="-03 -s"; make pcre.dll - -Using Cygwin's compiler generates libraries and executables that depend on -cygwin1.dll. If a library that is generated this way is distributed, -cygwin1.dll has to be distributed as well. Since cygwin1.dll is under the GPL -licence, this forces not only PCRE to be under the GPL, but also the entire -application. A distributor who wants to keep their own code proprietary must -purchase an appropriate Cygwin licence. - -MinGW has no such restrictions. The MinGW compiler generates a library or -executable that can run standalone on Windows without any third party dll or -licensing issues. - -But there is more complication: - -If a Cygwin user uses the -mno-cygwin Cygwin gcc flag, what that really does is -to tell Cygwin's gcc to use the MinGW gcc. Cygwin's gcc is only acting as a -front end to MinGW's gcc (if you install Cygwin's gcc, you get both Cygwin's -gcc and MinGW's gcc). So, a user can: - -. Build native binaries by using MinGW or by getting Cygwin and using - -mno-cygwin. - -. Build binaries that depend on cygwin1.dll by using Cygwin with the normal - compiler flags. - -The test files that are supplied with PCRE are in UNIX format, with LF -characters as line terminators. Unless your PCRE library uses a default newline -option that includes LF as a valid newline, it may be necessary to change the -line terminators in the test files to get some of the tests to work. - -BUILDING PCRE ON WINDOWS WITH CMAKE - -CMake is an alternative configuration facility that can be used instead of the -traditional Unix "configure". CMake creates project files (make files, solution -files, etc.) tailored to numerous development environments, including Visual -Studio, Borland, Msys, MinGW, NMake, and Unix. If possible, use short paths -with no spaces in the names for your CMake installation and your pcre -source and build directories. - -The following instructions were contributed by a PCRE user. - -1. Install the latest CMake version available from http://www.cmake.org/, and - ensure that cmake\bin is on your path. - -2. Unzip (retaining folder structure) the PCRE source tree into a source - directory such as C:\pcre. You should ensure your local date and time - is not earlier than the file dates in your source dir if the release is - very new. - -3. Create a new, empty build directory, preferably a subdirectory of the - source dir. For example, C:\pcre\pcre-xx\build. - -4. Run cmake-gui from the Shell envirornment of your build tool, for example, - Msys for Msys/MinGW or Visual Studio Command Prompt for VC/VC++. - -5. Enter C:\pcre\pcre-xx and C:\pcre\pcre-xx\build for the source and build - directories, respectively. - -6. Hit the "Configure" button. - -7. Select the particular IDE / build tool that you are using (Visual - Studio, MSYS makefiles, MinGW makefiles, etc.) - -8. The GUI will then list several configuration options. This is where - you can enable UTF-8 support or other PCRE optional features. - -9. Hit "Configure" again. The adjacent "Generate" button should now be - active. - -10. Hit "Generate". - -11. The build directory should now contain a usable build system, be it a - solution file for Visual Studio, makefiles for MinGW, etc. Exit from - cmake-gui and use the generated build system with your compiler or IDE. - E.g., for MinGW you can run "make", or for Visual Studio, open the PCRE - solution, select the desired configuration (Debug, or Release, etc.) and - build the ALL_BUILD project. - -12. If during configuration with cmake-gui you've elected to build the test - programs, you can execute them by building the test project. E.g., for - MinGW: "make test"; for Visual Studio build the RUN_TESTS project. The - most recent build configuration is targeted by the tests. A summary of - test results is presented. Complete test output is subsequently - available for review in Testing\Temporary under your build dir. - -USE OF RELATIVE PATHS WITH CMAKE ON WINDOWS - -A PCRE user comments as follows: - -I thought that others may want to know the current state of -CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS support on Windows. - -Here it is: --- AdditionalIncludeDirectories is only partially modified (only the -first path - see below) --- Only some of the contained file paths are modified - shown below for -pcre.vcproj --- It properly modifies - -I am sure CMake people can fix that if they want to. Until then one will -need to replace existing absolute paths in project files with relative -paths manually (e.g. from VS) - relative to project file location. I did -just that before being told to try CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS. Not a big -deal. - -AdditionalIncludeDirectories="E:\builds\pcre\build;E:\builds\pcre\pcre-7.5;" -AdditionalIncludeDirectories=".;E:\builds\pcre\pcre-7.5;" - -RelativePath="pcre.h"> -RelativePath="pcre_chartables.c"> -RelativePath="pcre_chartables.c.rule"> - - -TESTING WITH RUNTEST.BAT - -If configured with CMake, building the test project ("make test" or building -ALL_TESTS in Visual Studio) creates (and runs) pcre_test.bat (and depending -on your configuration options, possibly other test programs) in the build -directory. Pcre_test.bat runs RunTest.Bat with correct source and exe paths. - -For manual testing with RunTest.bat, provided the build dir is a subdirectory -of the source directory: Open command shell window. Chdir to the location -of your pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe programs. Call RunTest.bat with -"..\RunTest.Bat" or "..\..\RunTest.bat" as appropriate. - -To run only a particular test with RunTest.Bat provide a test number argument. - -Otherwise: - -1. Copy RunTest.bat into the directory where pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe - have been created. - -2. Edit RunTest.bat to indentify the full or relative location of - the pcre source (wherein which the testdata folder resides), e.g.: - - set srcdir=C:\pcre\pcre-8.20 - -3. In a Windows command environment, chdir to the location of your bat and -exe programs. - -4. Run RunTest.bat. Test outputs will automatically be compared to expected -results, and discrepancies will be identified in the console output. - -To independently test the just-in-time compiler, run pcre_jit_test.exe. -To test pcrecpp, run pcrecpp_unittest.exe, pcre_stringpiece_unittest.exe and -pcre_scanner_unittest.exe. - -BUILDING UNDER WINDOWS WITH BCC5.5 - -Michael Roy sent these comments about building PCRE under Windows with BCC5.5: - - Some of the core BCC libraries have a version of PCRE from 1998 built in, - which can lead to pcre_exec() giving an erroneous PCRE_ERROR_NULL from a - version mismatch. I'm including an easy workaround below, if you'd like to - include it in the non-unix instructions: - - When linking a project with BCC5.5, pcre.lib must be included before any of - the libraries cw32.lib, cw32i.lib, cw32mt.lib, and cw32mti.lib on the command - line. - - -BUILDING UNDER WINDOWS CE WITH VISUAL STUDIO 200x - -Vincent Richomme sent a zip archive of files to help with this process. They -can be found in the file "pcre-vsbuild.zip" in the Contrib directory of the FTP -site. - - -BUILDING PCRE ON OPENVMS - -Dan Mooney sent the following comments about building PCRE on OpenVMS. They -relate to an older version of PCRE that used fewer source files, so the exact -commands will need changing. See the current list of source files above. - -"It was quite easy to compile and link the library. I don't have a formal -make file but the attached file [reproduced below] contains the OpenVMS DCL -commands I used to build the library. I had to add #define -POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD 10 to pcre.h since it was not defined anywhere. - -The library was built on: -O/S: HP OpenVMS v7.3-1 -Compiler: Compaq C v6.5-001-48BCD -Linker: vA13-01 - -The test results did not match 100% due to the issues you mention in your -documentation regarding isprint(), iscntrl(), isgraph() and ispunct(). I -modified some of the character tables temporarily and was able to get the -results to match. Tests using the fr locale did not match since I don't have -that locale loaded. The study size was always reported to be 3 less than the -value in the standard test output files." - -========================= -$! This DCL procedure builds PCRE on OpenVMS -$! -$! I followed the instructions in the non-unix-use file in the distribution. -$! -$ COMPILE == "CC/LIST/NOMEMBER_ALIGNMENT/PREFIX_LIBRARY_ENTRIES=ALL_ENTRIES -$ COMPILE DFTABLES.C -$ LINK/EXE=DFTABLES.EXE DFTABLES.OBJ -$ RUN DFTABLES.EXE/OUTPUT=CHARTABLES.C -$ COMPILE MAKETABLES.C -$ COMPILE GET.C -$ COMPILE STUDY.C -$! I had to set POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD to 10 in PCRE.H since the symbol -$! did not seem to be defined anywhere. -$! I edited pcre.h and added #DEFINE SUPPORT_UTF8 to enable UTF8 support. -$ COMPILE PCRE.C -$ LIB/CREATE PCRE MAKETABLES.OBJ, GET.OBJ, STUDY.OBJ, PCRE.OBJ -$! I had to set POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD to 10 in PCRE.H since the symbol -$! did not seem to be defined anywhere. -$ COMPILE PCREPOSIX.C -$ LIB/CREATE PCREPOSIX PCREPOSIX.OBJ -$ COMPILE PCRETEST.C -$ LINK/EXE=PCRETEST.EXE PCRETEST.OBJ, PCRE/LIB, PCREPOSIX/LIB -$! C programs that want access to command line arguments must be -$! defined as a symbol -$ PCRETEST :== "$ SYS$ROADSUSERS:[DMOONEY.REGEXP]PCRETEST.EXE" -$! Arguments must be enclosed in quotes. -$ PCRETEST "-C" -$! Test results: -$! -$! The test results did not match 100%. The functions isprint(), iscntrl(), -$! isgraph() and ispunct() on OpenVMS must not produce the same results -$! as the system that built the test output files provided with the -$! distribution. -$! -$! The study size did not match and was always 3 less on OpenVMS. -$! -$! Locale could not be set to fr -$! -========================= - - -BUILDING PCRE ON STRATUS OPENVOS - -These notes on the port of PCRE to VOS (lightly edited) were supplied by -Ashutosh Warikoo, whose email address has the local part awarikoo and the -domain nse.co.in. The port was for version 7.9 in August 2009. - -1. Building PCRE - -I built pcre on OpenVOS Release 17.0.1at using GNU Tools 3.4a without any -problems. I used the following packages to build PCRE: - - ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/posix.save.evf.gz - -Please read and follow the instructions that come with these packages. To start -the build of pcre, from the root of the package type: - - ./build.sh - -2. Installing PCRE - -Once you have successfully built PCRE, login to the SysAdmin group, switch to -the root user, and type - - [ !create_dir (master_disk)>usr --if needed ] - [ !create_dir (master_disk)>usr>local --if needed ] - !gmake install - -This installs PCRE and its man pages into /usr/local. You can add -(master_disk)>usr>local>bin to your command search paths, or if you are in -BASH, add /usr/local/bin to the PATH environment variable. - -4. Restrictions - -This port requires readline library optionally. However during the build I -faced some yet unexplored errors while linking with readline. As it was an -optional component I chose to disable it. - -5. Known Problems - -I ran the test suite, but you will have to be your own judge of whether this -command, and this port, suits your purposes. If you find any problems that -appear to be related to the port itself, please let me know. Please see the -build.log file in the root of the package also. - - -========================= -Last Updated: 9 October 2011 -**** +####