Re: [pcre-dev] Version 8.30 is released

Many thanks Graycode, that seems to have done the trick! The software
works again and preliminary tests with it are successful.

Regards,
Sheri


On 2/13/2012 3:03 PM, Graycode wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Sheri wrote:
>
>> I've just discovered that 8.30 doesn't work at all with the software for
>> which I build PCRE. The programmer abandoned the project a few months
>> ago and did not release the source.
> Ouch, very sorry to hear that.
>
>
>> I guess it might be due to removal of pcre_info. I don't think it
>> actually used the function, but likely imports or defines all previously
>> exported functions. I'm not a programmer but if there's a way to stick a
>> dummy function in there to try, please let me know.
> Try adding the following 5 lines to the end of one of your *.c files.
> I'd suggest appending them to your pcre_fullinfo.c file since that one
> is more representative of what the deprecated function did.
> I just tried that on my version and was able to verify the resulting
> library (DLL) does expose that previously available function.
>
>
> PCRE_EXP_DEFN int PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION
> pcre_info(const pcre *argument_re, int *optptr, int *first_byte)
> {
> return PCRE_ERROR_BADMAGIC;
> }
>
>
> Regards,
> Graycode
>