PCRE-CONFIG(1)                       General Commands Manual                       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:  the  options
       required to compile a program to use them.


OPTIONS
       --prefix  Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture inde‐
                 pendent files (e.g. /usr) to standard output.

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

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

       --libs    Writes  to  standard  output the command line options required to link with PCRE
                 (e.g. -lpcre).

       --libs-posix
                 Writes to standard output the command line options required  to  link  with  the
                 PCRE POSIX emulation library (e.g. -lpcreposix -lpcre).

       --cflags  Writes  to  standard  output  the command line options required to compile files
                 that use PCRE (this often includes some -I options, but is blank on debian  sys‐
                 tems).

       --cflags-posix
                 Writes  to  standard  output  the command line options required to compile files
                 that use the PCRE POSIX emulation library (this often includes some -I  options,
                 but  is  blank on debian systems). Suppress printing of filenames when searching
                 multiple files.



       AUTHOR
              This manual page was written  by  Mark  Baker  <mark AT mnb.uk>,  for  the  Debian
              GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).


SEE ALSO
       pcre(3)



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