Further tidies in comments about Windows use.

git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@317 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/NON-UNIX-USE b/NON-UNIX-USE
index 6bbcff5..34c8d0a 100644
--- a/NON-UNIX-USE
+++ b/NON-UNIX-USE
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ This document contains the following sections:
   The C++ wrapper functions
   Building for virtual Pascal
   Stack size in Windows environments
+  Linking programs in Windows environments 
   Comments about Win32 builds
   Building PCRE on Windows with CMake
   Use of relative paths with CMake on Windows
@@ -181,6 +182,14 @@ significantly slower when this is done. There is more about stack usage in the
 "pcrestack" documentation.
 
 
+LINKING PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS
+
+If you want to statically link a program against a PCRE library in the form of 
+a non-dll .a file, you must define PCRE_STATIC before including pcre.h,
+otherwise the pcre_malloc() and pcre_free() exported functions will be declared
+__declspec(dllimport), with unwanted results.
+
+
 COMMENTS ABOUT WIN32 BUILDS (see also "BUILDING PCRE WITH CMAKE" below)
 
 There are two ways of building PCRE using the "configure, make, make install"
@@ -220,10 +229,13 @@ also link with libpcre, which contains the basic functions. (Some earlier
 releases of PCRE included the basic libpcre functions in libpcreposix. This no
 longer happens.)
 
-If you want to statically link your program against a non-dll .a file, you must
-define PCRE_STATIC before including pcre.h, otherwise the pcre_malloc() and
-pcre_free() exported functions will be declared __declspec(dllimport), with
-unwanted results.
+A user submitted a special-purpose patch that makes it easy to create
+"pcre.dll" under mingw32 using the "msys" environment. It provides "pcre.dll" 
+as a special target. If you use this target, no other files are built, and in
+particular, the pcretest and pcregrep programs are not built. An example of how
+this might be used is:
+
+  ./configure --enable-utf --disable-cpp CFLAGS="-03 -s"; make pcre.dll
 
 Using Cygwin's compiler generates libraries and executables that depend on
 cygwin1.dll. If a library that is generated this way is distributed,