Re: [pcre-dev] More Windows Building Woes

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sheri
CC: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] More Windows Building Woes
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Sheri wrote:

> Any thoughts on the failure of pcredemo to build properly using
> configure and make?
>
> > When configured with Configure for Static libraries in Msys, pcregrep is
> > created ok, but pcredemo is problematic. Pcredemo is not even included
> > at all in Cmake.


In the "old days" before automake and CMake, pcredemo was not built with
PCRE. I provided it as a demonstration program for people to build
themselves, as users of PCRE. When it was included in the automake
build, I didn't object (other things to worry about, life's too short,
etc, etc). Needless to say, it builds OK on Linux.

> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0xca): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_compile'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x120): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_exec'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x1b9): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_fullinfo'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x208): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_fullinfo'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x225): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_fullinfo'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x311): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_exec'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x44b): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_free'
> > pcredemo.o:pcredemo.c:(.text+0x4f1): undefined reference to
> > `_imp__pcre_free'


Looks like it couldn't find any of the PCRE functions, but why that
should be, I don't know. Hmm... there is a difference in the way they
are defined in the automake input:

bin_PROGRAMS += pcregrep            
pcregrep_SOURCES = pcregrep.c            
pcregrep_LDADD = libpcreposix.la


noinst_PROGRAMS += pcredemo
pcredemo_SOURCES = pcredemo.c
pcredemo_LDADD = libpcre.la

Notice the different libraries. I wonder if that makes a difference?
Neither of them actually uses the POSIX functions.

Philip

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Philip Hazel