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diff --git a/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD b/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD index a73c058..2ce0fd5 100644 --- a/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD +++ b/NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD @@ -40,7 +40,11 @@ GENERIC INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PCRE2 C LIBRARY The following are generic instructions for building the PCRE2 C library "by hand". If you are going to use CMake, this section does not apply to you; you -can skip ahead to the CMake section. +can skip ahead to the CMake section. Note that the settings concerned with +8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit code units relate to the type of data string that +PCRE2 processes. They are NOT referring to the underlying operating system bit +width. You do not have to do anything special to compile in a 64-bit +environment, for example. (1) Copy or rename the file src/config.h.generic as src/config.h, and edit the macro settings that it contains to whatever is appropriate for your @@ -86,11 +90,11 @@ can skip ahead to the CMake section. The tables in src/pcre2_chartables.c are defaults. The caller of PCRE2 can specify alternative tables at run time. - (4) For an 8-bit library, compile the following source files from the src - directory, setting -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=8 as a compiler option. Also - set -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if you have set up src/config.h with your - configuration, or else use other -D settings to change the configuration - as required. + (4) For a library that supports 8-bit code units in the character strings that + it processes, compile the following source files from the src directory, + setting -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=8 as a compiler option. Also set + -DHAVE_CONFIG_H if you have set up src/config.h with your configuration, + or else use other -D settings to change the configuration as required. pcre2_auto_possess.c pcre2_chartables.c @@ -142,9 +146,9 @@ can skip ahead to the CMake section. If your system has static and shared libraries, you may have to do this once for each type. - (6) If you want to build a 16-bit library or 32-bit library (as well as, or - instead of the 8-bit library) just supply 16 or 32 as the value of - -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH when you are compiling. + (6) If you want to build a library that supports 16-bit or 32-bit code units, + (as well as, or instead of the 8-bit library) just supply 16 or 32 as the + value of -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH when you are compiling. (7) If you want to build the POSIX wrapper functions (which apply only to the 8-bit library), ensure that you have the src/pcre2posix.h file and then @@ -401,6 +405,6 @@ Everything in that location, source and executable, is in EBCDIC and native z/OS file formats. The port provides an API for LE languages such as COBOL and for the z/OS and z/VM versions of the Rexx languages. -============================== -Last Updated: 14 November 2018 -============================== +=========================== +Last Updated: 28 April 2021 +=========================== |