Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Robert Wishlaw CC: PCRE Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] BAD name PCRE_STATIC
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Robert Wishlaw wrote:
> I had not added the define PCRE_STATIC to my build because I was not
> building a STATIC library, I was building a DLL, so I assumed,
> incorrectly, that the STATIC in PCRE_STATIC referred to a STATIC library.
>
> When looking at the declspec defines I thought Richard Daniel had got it
> backwards until I realized that the PRCE_STATIC define had to be used when
> building a DLL but not when building a STATIC library.
I can't claim to understand much about Windows (a system I have never
used), but the comment in config.h says
/* Define if linking statically (TODO: make nice with Libtool) */
/* #undef PCRE_STATIC */
... which disagrees with your conclusion.
(Incidentally, which PCRE release?)
Philip
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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.