Re: [pcre-dev] about the posix API depend by PCRE

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Author: ltree2003
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Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] about the posix API depend by PCRE
Hi Philip,


Great thanks for your hint, I will make a detail look to NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.


BR
TianWei






At 2013-08-28 23:48:35,ph10@??? wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, ltree2003 wrote:
>
>> I want to port PCRE to one private OS.
>> I know PCRE depend on posix APIs.
>
>No, it does not. PCRE has its own API. There is a POSIX wrapper that
>allows applications to call PCRE via a POSIX API, but this does not
>provide all the functionality of PCRE.
>
>> However, my private OS doesn't support POSIX. I plan to implement a
>> posix layer on my system.
>>
>> So, Could you please tell me where can I find the list of posix APIs been depended by PCRE?
>> Then I can only care about them instead of whole posix.
>
>I think perhaps you are asking for what system calls PCRE uses
>internally. There is no list of these, but the PCRE C library should use
>only functions that are defined as part of the C standard. PCRE should
>work on any system that has a standard C compiler and a standard C
>library. See the NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD file in the PCRE distribution.
>
>--
>Philip Hazel