You need to install pcre. This could be scripted: cd /tmp curl -O ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-7.4.tar.gz tar -xzf pcre-7.4.tar.gz ./configure --enable-utf8 --with-match-limit=200000 --with-match-limit-recursion=4000 make make install At that point is will be installed in /usr/*. the version in p/pcre-7.4 is for VC++.