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Re: Using the PCRE library for Windows??
From: Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:18:22 -0700
On 6/22/11 4:31 PM, Alex Lindberg wrote:
True, but since pcre is removed from the windows library download site, should the PCRE option still be in the config.nmake file?
No. As it stands, the PCRE content in config.nmake and Makefile.nmake add unnecessary clutter.
In epan/ftypes/*c files, both the pcre lib and Gtkregex are used causing the developer to take both into account. IMHO, ugly.
Would it be better to deprive users of functionality so the code can be pretty?
In my case, I use the regcomp set of functions to build a library of regex expressions to parse my data sets. If the pcre lib is available for Linux, why not for windows. I would request that the pcre libs/bin file be restored to the 1.4 and 1.6 (trunk) resources.
You're assuming that there's a version of PCRE available to restore. This isn't the case on 64-bit Windows, which is what prompted the move to GRegex in the first place. GRegex lets us have more uniform feature parity across the different platforms we support and removes a dependency on an external library. However, it isn't available in older versions of GLib so the pre-existing PCRE code has been left in place. At some point we'll probably abandon PCRE entirely in favor of GRegex, particularly if we require 2.14 or later. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Using the PCRE library for Windows?? Alex Lindberg (Jun 22)
- Re: Using the PCRE library for Windows?? Anders Broman (Jun 22)
- Re: Using the PCRE library for Windows?? Alex Lindberg (Jun 22)
- Re: Using the PCRE library for Windows?? Gerald Combs (Jun 22)
- Re: Using the PCRE library for Windows?? Alex Lindberg (Jun 22)
- Re: Using the PCRE library for Windows?? Anders Broman (Jun 22)