.TH PCRE-CONFIG 1 .SH NAME pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration .SH SYNOPSIS .rs .sp .B pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs] .ti +5n .B [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix] . . .SH DESCRIPTION .rs .sp \fBpcre-config\fP returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them. . . .SH OPTIONS .rs .TP 10 \fB--prefix\fP Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (\fI/usr\fP on many systems, \fI/usr/local\fP on some systems) to the standard output. .TP 10 \fB--exec-prefix\fP Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same as \fB--prefix\fP) to the standard output. .TP 10 \fB--version\fP Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard output. .TP 10 \fB--libs\fP Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE (\fB-lpcre\fP on many systems). .TP 10 \fB--libs-posix\fP Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the PCRE posix emulation library (\fB-lpcreposix\fP \fB-lpcre\fP on many systems). .TP 10 \fB--cflags\fP Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include some \fB-I\fP options, but is blank on many systems). .TP 10 \fB--cflags-posix\fP Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this may include some \fB-I\fP options, but is blank on many systems). . . .SH "SEE ALSO" .rs .sp \fBpcre(3)\fP . . .SH AUTHOR .rs .sp This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It has been slightly revised as a generic PCRE man page. . . .SH REVISION .rs .sp .nf Last updated: 18 April 2007 .fi