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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 15:24:07 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: RE: Looking for cygpcre.dll
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Scott,

At 15:12 2002-10-31, Scott Prive wrote:
>This (and other) dll's get installed by programs that need it. You do not 
>need to worry about picking dll's -- it's all automatic by setup.exe

It is true that package dependencies ensure (or are intended to ensure) 
that any given package, when installed, will have all its prerequisites 
installed, too.

However, if one is writing code that needs a library that is available in 
the Cygwin stock distribution but which is not used by any other installed 
package, then the supplying package must be manually installed in order to 
be able to compile and link against the entry points supplied by that library.


>If I understand you, you just want the dll, and you're not terribly 
>curious to know what package it comes from. So, one answer is run SETUP, 
>select "something", and verify you have the file.
>
>If you need to know exactly which package provides this, I cannot answer you.

The Cygwin web site includes a package search feature (for the slightly 
patient) that will show which packages include a file desribed by a regular 
expression. That search capability is available at 
<http://cygwin.com/packages/>. A link to this page is available on the main 
Cygwin page (<http://cygwin.com/>) under the label "Setup Package Search."

In Janos' case, searching for ".*libpcre.*" reveals that it is part of 
(guess what?) the "pcre" package:

-==-
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=.*libpcre.*>:

Found 1 matches for .*libpcre.*.

pcre/pcre-3.7-1 Perl Compatible regular expression library
-==-


Searching for "pcre.dll" yields these additional packages:

-==-
<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=pcre.dll>
Found 4 matches for pcre.dll.

pcre/pcre-3.7-1 Perl Compatible regular expression library
python/python-2.1.1-2 An interactive object-oriented scripting language
python/python-2.2-1 An interactive object-oriented scripting language
python/python-2.2.1-1 An interactive object-oriented scripting language
-==-


>-Scott


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jblazi [mailto:jblazi AT gmx DOT de]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:08 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Looking for cygpcre.dll
> >
> >
> > I need cygpcre.dll. I found it with search on the cygwin site
> > but I still do not know how to get it (via setup). Can anybody help me?
> >
> > TIA,
> > --
> > Janos Blazi


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