The CODE_UNIT_WIDTH stuff is concerned with the size of code units in the
data that PCRE2 processes - nothing to do with the 32-bit or 64-bit ness of
the underlying operating system. Just compile in the normal way on a 64-bit
system and you will get a 64-bit library that processes strings of 8-bit
characters. Use the CODE_UNIT_WIDTH settings if you want to process 16-bit
or 32-bit characters. Extraordinarily, this is the second time this week
that this misunderstanding has arisen - I have just been adding some words
to the documentation to try to make it clearer. I didn't think of updating
NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD, however, so I will now take a look at that as well.
Regards,
Philip
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 16:07, Chris De Boeck via Pcre-dev <pcre-dev@???>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried to compile PCRE v10.36 on Windows like described in
> 'NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD', but when I try to use "-DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=64"
> there are a lot of errors.
> Is there a way to compile the libraries for 64 bit? I'm especially
> interested in the regex functionality.
>
> Thank you.
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