Hi Zoltan,
thank you very much for the detailed information.
Since these type of work (i.e. building and compiling) is really out of my current knowledge I will try to rely on pre-compiled files.

With respect to this I had some feedback from GnuWin32 mailing list.
They suggested me to trypcregrepversion 8.12 from last year:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/getgnuwin32/files/getgnuwin32/test%20builds/regexp_lib_PCRE_8.12_binaries_and_devel.zip/download
It was made as a test build but there wasn't any demand for it so that's why it was not easily reachable(for me)from the GnuWin32 packages list.
I tried this version and everything works now.

I then asked to the GnuWin32 list if they are willing to create a new updated pcre package (which will contain updated pcregrep).

Thank you once more

Kind Regards

Emanuele

Il 02/08/2012 06:44, Zoltán Herczeg ha scritto:
Hi,

7.0 is really old. We do not support it anymore.

Could you help me in trying to update pcregrep on my Windows system?
I am not a Windows expert myself, but with cmake and mingw (+make) it is easy 
to build it. Cygwin probably works as well.

You can find mingw related things here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

GCC:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/gcc/Version4/

There are some installers there, I have never tried them. I just downloaded the 
usual components (binutils, libc, etc.) until the the compiler is finally able 
to compile a hello world.

make utility is also important:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/

CMake is available here:
http://www.cmake.org/

Download it as well.

This command configures PCRE from its root directory if everything is available 
in the PATH:

cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" . -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=-Wl,--stack,16777216 
-DPCRE_BUILD_PCRE16=ON -DPCRE_BUILD_PCRE8=ON -DPCRE_SUPPORT_JIT=ON 
-DPCRE_SUPPORT_UNICODE_PROPERTIES=ON

And a simple "make" command builds it.

Testing: make test
Detailed build process: make VERBOSE=1

Regards,
Zoltan


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