thanks for replying. i tried to link statically to Pcre because the package would install the dll to C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin by default. so running a dynamically linked program would complain about not being able to find the pcre3.dll. is there a way to tell Windows to look in C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin for the dll? i think normally Windows just look for dll files in the current directory and in C:\WINDOWS\system32, right?
otherwise, i'll need to include pcre3.dll with my compiled program. or i might just link it statically. btw, i tried to compile pcre-7.2. it didn't go well. i'll try the options you sugguested. tuit --- Kees Zeelenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You cannot create a static version of your program by using libpcre.dll.a. > This library contains only references to the DLL and does not carry any > compiled code. > > For myself, I cannot see why using the DLL should be avoided. MS-Windows > overflows with DLL's, your program very probably links to many of these > (msvcrt.dll, kernel32.dll, user32.dll, ntdll.dll, ...), so why shouldn't > your project use another one? > If you still want a static library, you can follow the steps at > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html, and use the > "--enable-static --disable-shared" option to configure. You could also tweak > the the sources from Gnuwin32 (in particular replacing any occurrence > of -DBUILD_PCRE_DLL or -DBUILD_PCRECPP_DLL > by -DSTATIC -D__STATIC__ -DPCRE_STATIC), but on the way to a usable static > library, you would probably encounter several problems (which shouldn't be > hard to solve if you have a reasonable amount of experience in Make, > Autoconf and Automake). > > Kees Zeelenberg > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
