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| author | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2007-04-02 13:32:07 +0000 |
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| committer | ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15> | 2007-04-02 13:32:07 +0000 |
| commit | 538ef4f8d6632b422169714282844c34b4bfc271 (patch) | |
| tree | 67867bc84c7834cad2a0c7c65340605c1a02ea9d /NON-UNIX-USE | |
| parent | f8735bf7b631d53067a040bd9f2c04b8f80c6dae (diff) | |
| download | pcre-538ef4f8d6632b422169714282844c34b4bfc271.tar.gz | |
Daniel's patches to add to the CMake support.
git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@144 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/NON-UNIX-USE b/NON-UNIX-USE index 90f0258..2b82b7c 100644 --- a/NON-UNIX-USE +++ b/NON-UNIX-USE @@ -23,11 +23,15 @@ site that you may find useful. See ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/Contrib -If you want to compile PCRE for a non-Unix system (or perhaps, more strictly, -for a system that does not support "configure" and "make" files), note that -the basic PCRE library consists entirely of code written in Standard C, and so -should compile successfully on any system that has a Standard C compiler and -library. The C++ wrapper functions are a separate issue (see below). +If you want to compile PCRE for a non-Unix system (especially for a system that +does not support "configure" and "make" files), note that the basic PCRE +library consists entirely of code written in Standard C, and so should compile +successfully on any system that has a Standard C compiler and library. The C++ +wrapper functions are a separate issue (see below). + +The PCRE distribution contains some experimental support for "cmake", but this +is incomplete and not documented. However if you are a "cmake" user you might +like to try building with "cmake". GENERIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PCRE C LIBRARY @@ -123,9 +127,13 @@ for use with VP/Borland: makevp_c.txt, makevp_l.txt, makevp.bat, pcregexp.pas. COMMENTS ABOUT WIN32 BUILDS -There are two ways of building PCRE on Windows systems: using MinGW or using -Cygwin. These are not at all the same thing, and are completely different from -each other. +There are two ways of building PCRE using the "congifure, make, make install" +paradigm on Windows systems: using MinGW or using Cygwin. These are not at all +the same thing; they are completely different from each other. There is also +some experimental, undocumented support for building using "cmake", which you +might like to try if you are familiar with "cmake". However, at the present +time, the "cmake" process builds only a static library (not a dll), and the +tests are not automatically run. The MinGW home page (http://www.mingw.org/) says this: |