I'm a serious windows developer, and use PCRE as my default regular expression library. What I used to do is use a binary I downloaded from the GnuWin32 project, but the latest PCRE version they support is 6.0 (it might be 6.2, I don't honestly recall). As of today, I am having very serious issues with using PCRE in a DLL, so I'm going to experiment tonight and see what happens.
I second Craig's belief that a .sln and .vcproj would be most useful for windows developers. I'll experiment tonight and see what I come up with. VK On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Craig Silverstein <[email protected]>wrote: > I do something similar to this for projects I write that have to > compile under windows (MSVC or nmake). However, instead of this > approach: > > } Instead of touching the Unix config.h file, a dedicated winconfig.h file > } is introduced, and all the instances of: > } > } #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H > } #include "config.h" > } #endif > } > } are replaced with: > } > } #include "sysconfig.h" > > which is prety invasive, I do the following: > > create a windows directory, and create a version of config.h in the > windows directory that is basically manually set up (like this patch > does). Then, when compiling under windows, I just add > -Iwindows > to the compile line. This should result in the windows config.h being > preferred over the top-level config.h. > > I don't see any reason not to do that, though it'll be work to keep > the windows config.h manually synced with the unix config as changes > are made to autoconf.ac. But I believe such changes are pretty rare > at this point, so maybe it's a good trade-off. > > As for adding in a windows-specific Makefile (the second patch), I > believe the pcre path is to use cmake rather than nmake, so I don't > think this adds very much. (And maybe cmake automatically makes a > config.h? What do windows developers do nowadays?) What would be > more useful I think, if we don't already have it, would be a .sln and > .vcproj files, for building under MSVC. But I don't actually develop > in windows, so I don't know. Come to think of it, I'm probably not > the right person to ask... > > craig > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
