[Privoxy-devel] todo 166: windows current pcre library

[Lee]

I got privoxy to build without the static pcre library.

I don't understand what's going on, but "-lpcre" fails with "-static"

$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe -static conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld:
cannot find -lpcreposix
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld:
cannot find -lpcre
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

but works without:

Lee at i3668 ~/t
$ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe         conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre

Lee at i3668 ~/t
$ cat conftest-pcre.c
/* i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe -static conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre
 *   and yet this works
 * i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -o a.exe         conftest-pcre.c -lpcreposix -lpcre
 */
char pcre_compile ();
char regcomp ();
int main () {
return pcre_compile ();
return regcomp ();
  ;
  return 0;
}


Lee