Re: [pcre-dev] reply: how to use pcre.lib on win32 platfor…

Sheri wrote:
> WangWeiGuo(王卫国) wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> About how to use pcre with Visual Studio 2008 express or other win32 compiler, I have tried many times but not successful. So if everyone has the information about it ,please tell me .
>>
>>
> You should be using cmake to configure PCRE on Windows. If you get the
> latest cmake, one of the supported environments is Visual Studio 9 2008
> which should work with Express. I just tried building the newly released
> PCRE 7.9 with static libraries on VS 2005 Express and it worked fine.
> Refer to the Non-Unix-Use text file in the pcre distribution (However,
> with latest cmake, you can use newer cmake-gui instead of the CMakeSetup
> if you wish). For linking with other software, you can look at how
> pcretest and pcregrep are linked.
>
> Regards,
> Sheri
>
>
>
BTW, when you do your own projects and link to static libraries, your
project must define PCRE_STATIC 1. When pcretest and pcregrep are built,
they get it from including config.h.

Regards,
Sheri