Re: Pcre static library

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tuitfun" <[email protected]>
To: "gnuwin32" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 4:54 PM
Subject: [GnuWin32-Users] Pcre static library

> Pcre package only has libpcre.dll.a (no libpcre.a). can i build a program 
> that
> links statically to Pcre? i tried to compile pcredemo.c and it ran fine 
> with
> dynamic linking. however, when i tried to compile statically with:

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 


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