Pcre-config (1) Linux Manual Page

pcre-config – program to return PCRE configuration

Synopsis

pcre-config [–prefix] [–exec-prefix] [–version] [–libs] [–libs-posix] [–cflags] [–cflags-posix]

pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries: the options required to compile a program to use them.

–prefix: Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (e.g. /usr) to standard output.
–exec-prefix: Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same as –prefix) to standard output.
–version: Writes the version of PCRE installed to standard output.
–libs: Writes to standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE (e.g. -lpcre).
–libs-posix: Writes to standard output the command line options required to link with the PCRE POSIX emulation library (e.g. -lpcreposix -lpcre).
–cflags: Writes to standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this often includes some -I options, but is blank on debian systems).
–cflags-posix: Writes to standard output the command line options required to compile files that use the PCRE POSIX emulation library (this often includes some -I options, but is blank on debian systems). Suppress printing of filenames when searching multiple files.

This manual page was written by Mark Baker <mark [at] mnb.org.uk>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).