Re: [pcre-dev] how to get pcre-7.0 dll on windows

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:56:12PM -0400, Sheri wrote:
> Yes. If you look at my output, you'll see I get the same thing. I don't
> get that however if I don't have --disable-cpp on the configure. Then it
> goes further and bombs making pcretest.exe. But regardless, I still
> always got pcre.dll and pcreposix.dll in my .libs directory. I admit
> that when I first started trying to build the libraries I was thrown by
> the fact that make didn't run to completion. In fact, I was so new to
> Msys/mingw and knew nothing of Unix that I didn't know what was wrong.
> But once I linked pcretest by hand and ran the the RunTest.bat file
> (after relocating the test data so the bat file would work) I could see
> that the libraries in .libs were fine (at least after I disabled stack
> for recursion, before that some of tests would crash). To finish
> sucessfully with only errors on fr_FR locale, pcre needs at least 8mb of
> stack on Windows when not disabling stack for recursion. At one point I
> knew how to do that using configure/make, but since that left us open to
> crashes in our application, I started disabling use of the stack altogether.

Hi Sheri,

OK, oddly enough, on cygwin, there was no dll's but the build finished.
On mingw, there are dll's and the build didn't finish. Thanks, this is
what I needed.

Bob Rossi