Revision: 525
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=525
Author: ph10
Date: 2010-05-26 11:50:24 +0100 (Wed, 26 May 2010)
Log Message:
-----------
Put the comment about Windows static linking in more places.
Modified Paths:
--------------
code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3
code/trunk/doc/pcresample.3
Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3 2010-05-24 17:06:28 UTC (rev 524)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcreapi.3 2010-05-26 10:50:24 UTC (rev 525)
@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@
and PCRE_MINOR to contain the major and minor release numbers for the library.
Applications can use these to include support for different releases of PCRE.
.P
+In a Windows environment, if you want to statically link an application program
+against a non-dll \fBpcre.a\fP file, you must define PCRE_STATIC before
+including \fBpcre.h\fP, because otherwise the \fBpcre_malloc()\fP and
+\fBpcre_free()\fP exported functions will be declared
+\fB__declspec(dllimport)\fP, with unwanted results.
+.P
The functions \fBpcre_compile()\fP, \fBpcre_compile2()\fP, \fBpcre_study()\fP,
and \fBpcre_exec()\fP are used for compiling and matching regular expressions
in a Perl-compatible manner. A sample program that demonstrates the simplest
@@ -2121,6 +2127,6 @@
.rs
.sp
.nf
-Last updated: 16 May 2010
+Last updated: 26 May 2010
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 University of Cambridge.
.fi
Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcresample.3
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/doc/pcresample.3 2010-05-24 17:06:28 UTC (rev 524)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcresample.3 2010-05-26 10:50:24 UTC (rev 525)
@@ -39,8 +39,14 @@
gcc -o pcredemo -I/usr/local/include pcredemo.c \e
-L/usr/local/lib -lpcre
.sp
-Once you have compiled the demonstration program, you can run simple tests like
-this:
+In a Windows environment, if you want to statically link the program against a
+non-dll \fBpcre.a\fP file, you must uncomment the line that defines PCRE_STATIC
+before including \fBpcre.h\fP, because otherwise the \fBpcre_malloc()\fP and
+\fBpcre_free()\fP exported functions will be declared
+\fB__declspec(dllimport)\fP, with unwanted results.
+.P
+Once you have compiled and linked the demonstration program, you can run simple
+tests like this:
.sp
./pcredemo 'cat|dog' 'the cat sat on the mat'
./pcredemo -g 'cat|dog' 'the dog sat on the cat'
@@ -87,6 +93,6 @@
.rs
.sp
.nf
-Last updated: 30 September 2009
-Copyright (c) 1997-2009 University of Cambridge.
+Last updated: 26 May 2010
+Copyright (c) 1997-2010 University of Cambridge.
.fi
