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PCRE2-CONFIG(1) General Commands Manual PCRE2-CONFIG(1)

NAME
pcre2-config - program to return PCRE2 configuration

SYNOPSIS

pcre2-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version]
[--libs8] [--libs16] [--libs32] [--libs-posix]
[--cflags] [--cflags-posix]

DESCRIPTION

pcre2-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE2 libraries and the options required to compile a
program to use them. Some of the options apply only to the 8-bit, or 16-bit, or 32-bit libraries, respectively,
and are not available for libraries that have not been built. If an unavailable option is encountered, the "us‐
age" information is output.

OPTIONS

--prefix Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE2 installation for architecture independent files (/usr on
many systems, /usr/local on some systems) to the standard output.

--exec-prefix
Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE2 installation for architecture dependent files (normally
the same as --prefix) to the standard output.

--version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE2 libraries to the standard output.

--libs8 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the 8-bit PCRE2 library
(-lpcre2-8 on many systems).

--libs16 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the 16-bit PCRE2 library
(-lpcre2-16 on many systems).

--libs32 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the 32-bit PCRE2 library
(-lpcre2-32 on many systems).

--libs-posix
Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE2's POSIX API wrapper
library (-lpcre2-posix -lpcre2-8 on many systems).

--cflags Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE2 (this
may include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

--cflags-posix
Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE2's POSIX
API wrapper library (this may include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

SEE ALSO

pcre2(3)

AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It has been subsequently
revised as a generic PCRE2 man page.

REVISION

Last updated: 28 September 2014

PCRE2 10.00 28 September 2014 PCRE2-CONFIG(1)