Re: [pcre-dev] Please comment on this build suggestion

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Author: Sheri
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To: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Please comment on this build suggestion
Philip Hazel wrote:
> A PCRE user has sent me the following comments:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I am looking at 7.5 . "configure" doesn't come up with any dll targets.
> With the few additions I made, the dll is made and works well under Windows
> (using mingw32 compiler).
>
> I humbly submit the following addition to "Makefile", which will allow
> anyone using the 'mingw32' compiler to simply type 'make pcre.dll' and
> get a nice DLL for Windows use:
>
> OBJS= pcre_compile.o pcre_config.o \
>         pcre_dfa_exec.o pcre_exec.o pcre_fullinfo.o pcre_get.o \
>         pcre_globals.o pcre_info.o pcre_maketables.o \
>         pcre_newline.o pcre_ord2utf8.o pcre_refcount.o \
>         pcre_study.o pcre_tables.o pcre_try_flipped.o \
>         pcre_ucp_searchfuncs.o pcre_valid_utf8.o pcre_version.o \
>         pcre_chartables.o \
>         pcre_xclass.o
> pcre.dll: $(OBJS)
>         g++ -shared -o pcre.dll -Wl,"--strip-all" -Wl,"--export-all-symbols"
> $(OBJS)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

>
> Please could somebody who knows about Windows environments tell me if
> this is a real problem, if the proposed solution is the right one, and
> if so, where to patch it in.
>
> Philip
>
>

Hi Philip,

As it is in 7.6-RC1 (e.g. without matching versions of pcreposix.dll and
pcretest.exe) this is not very useful. IMO the user needs to be able
confirm the configuration and library are working properly.

Regards,
Sheri