I just downloaded
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-7.4.tar.gz and
tried to fire it up in a way that maybe other folks have tried -- using the
Microsoft native command line tools in a cygwin shell.
I've used a modified version of cccl (
http://cccl.sourceforge.net/) on other
projects so I figured I would give it a shot here. It's a script that
translates gcc/g++ invocations into invocations of the appropriate Microsoft
command line tools.
In any case, I built pcre like this:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure CC=cccl CXX=cccl CPPFLAGS=-DPCRE_STATIC CXXFLAGS=/EHsc
--enable-shared=no --enable-newline-is-anycrlf --enable-bsr-anycrlf
--enable-unicode-properties
$ make
$ make install
I ran into some compiler errors in pcregrep.c. I've attached a patch to fix
them. With the patch, all the testdata/testinput files work with pcretest
except testinput2 -- I didn't play with the stack size.
From here, the only other strangeness is that I get lots of
cygpath: can't convert empty path
messages this line in libtool:
fix_srcfile_path="`cygpath -w "$srcfile"`"
Has anyone seen this before? Should I be asking on the libtool list? It
doesn't seem to do any harm, but it seems like it should disappear.
Thanks for the sweet software and for your help.
-DB
