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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:38:13 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Add Perl regex support to Cygwin?
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In-Reply-To: <20010228140347.I2327@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:03:47PM -0500

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 02:03:47PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 11:11:11AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:26:17PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> Just an off the wall idea:
> >> 
> >> http://www.pcre.org/
> >
> >PCRE has an excellent reputation. Why not adding it to Cygwin? If
> >it becomes part of the DLL we could drop the need for the external
> >regex lib.
> 
> That's what I was thinking.  I love perl's regexp capability but I wonder
> if adding this would bloat the DLL too much.  Maybe we need another DLL?
> With recent proposed changes to dlltool we could use a "forwarding" export
> in cygwin.def that would cause a cygpcre.dll to be loaded.
> 
> er, um, I mean rhpcre.dll.

It's the Cygwin dll, not the RH Linux dll(!) so I would vote for
cygpcre.dll. Did you already check to build PCRE?

Corinna

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