1<html> 2<head> 3<title>pcre2-config specification</title> 4</head> 5<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB"> 6<h1>pcre2-config man page</h1> 7<p> 8Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 9</p> 10<p> 11This page is part of the PCRE2 HTML documentation. It was generated 12automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, 13please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong. 14<br> 15<ul> 16<li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">SYNOPSIS</a> 17<li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">DESCRIPTION</a> 18<li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">OPTIONS</a> 19<li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">SEE ALSO</a> 20<li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">AUTHOR</a> 21<li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">REVISION</a> 22</ul> 23<br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">SYNOPSIS</a><br> 24<P> 25<b>pcre2-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version]</b> 26<b> [--libs8] [--libs16] [--libs32] [--libs-posix]</b> 27<b> [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]</b> 28</P> 29<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">DESCRIPTION</a><br> 30<P> 31<b>pcre2-config</b> returns the configuration of the installed PCRE2 libraries 32and the options required to compile a program to use them. Some of the options 33apply only to the 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit libraries, respectively, and are 34not available for libraries that have not been built. If an unavailable option 35is encountered, the "usage" information is output. 36</P> 37<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">OPTIONS</a><br> 38<P> 39<b>--prefix</b> 40Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE2 installation for architecture 41independent files (<i>/usr</i> on many systems, <i>/usr/local</i> on some 42systems) to the standard output. 43</P> 44<P> 45<b>--exec-prefix</b> 46Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE2 installation for architecture 47dependent files (normally the same as <b>--prefix</b>) to the standard output. 48</P> 49<P> 50<b>--version</b> 51Writes the version number of the installed PCRE2 libraries to the standard 52output. 53</P> 54<P> 55<b>--libs8</b> 56Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 57with the 8-bit PCRE2 library (<b>-lpcre2-8</b> on many systems). 58</P> 59<P> 60<b>--libs16</b> 61Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 62with the 16-bit PCRE2 library (<b>-lpcre2-16</b> on many systems). 63</P> 64<P> 65<b>--libs32</b> 66Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link 67with the 32-bit PCRE2 library (<b>-lpcre2-32</b> on many systems). 68</P> 69<P> 70<b>--libs-posix</b> 71Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with 72PCRE2's POSIX API wrapper library (<b>-lpcre2-posix</b> <b>-lpcre2-8</b> on many 73systems). 74</P> 75<P> 76<b>--cflags</b> 77Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 78files that use PCRE2 (this may include some <b>-I</b> options, but is blank on 79many systems). 80</P> 81<P> 82<b>--cflags-posix</b> 83Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile 84files that use PCRE2's POSIX API wrapper library (this may include some 85<b>-I</b> options, but is blank on many systems). 86</P> 87<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br> 88<P> 89<b>pcre2(3)</b> 90</P> 91<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br> 92<P> 93This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux 94system. It has been subsequently revised as a generic PCRE2 man page. 95</P> 96<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br> 97<P> 98Last updated: 28 September 2014 99<br> 100<p> 101Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE2 index page</a>. 102</p> 103