Sorry I can't reply directly to the bug list, trying that never has worked for me.
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Zoltan Herczeg wrote: > Pcre does not have a utils.c source file. And I am not aware of any _imp__ > prefix in the library. Is this the only error? This is a Windows thing. Items (functions or data) that are exported from a build of a DLL are prepended with '_imp__' for later linkage. Exported means they are externally visible and accessible when the DLL will be used at run-time. In this case utils.c is likely the author's own file. The error was: [Linker error] utils.o:utils.c:(.text+0x34e): undefined reference to `_imp__pcre_compile' I interpret this as utils.c contains code that invokes pcre_compile(). At link time it was not resolved. The author's file did not specify a definition for PCRE_STATIC, and so its inclusion of pcre.h indicates that pcre_compile() is an exported item from a DLL. If the author had defined PCRE_STATIC then the linker would not have been looking for it with the '_imp__' prefix name. See pcre.h line# 54: #if defined(_WIN32) && !defined(PCRE_STATIC) So anyway the linker is looking for something named _imp__pcre_compile. It's looking for an import of an exported function that was named pcre_compile(). I think the cause of this problem is either: 1) The PCRE library was built as a DLL but its resulting ".lib" is not in a lib path where the linker can find it. Or alternatively perhaps the DLL's ".lib" was not specified to the linker. When building that PCRE as a static library, a (#define PCRE_STATIC) would have been specified in config.h or a /D directive during compilation. 2) The PCRE library was built as a static library (not as a DLL) but the application (utils.c) is being compiled with a pcre.h / pcrecpp.h that indicates the library was built as a DLL. For a static PCRE library the application should have defined PCRE_STATIC prior to including pcre.h or pcrecpp.h. Consideration for this is touched upon in document NON-UNIX-USE, section "LINKING PROGRAMS IN WINDOWS ENVIRONMENTS". If it helps, please mention relevant parts to the bug report. PS: I don't know anything about "DEV-C++". Regards, Graycode -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
