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I checked out the lastest 0.5 code from svn and installed the version of pcre that's provided from GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/pcre.htm). When I try to build CEGUI using Visual C++ 2003 I get this error:

unresolved external symbol _pcre_free referenced in function "public: void __thiscall CEGUI::RegexValidator::release(void)"

Has anyone else run across this? Do I have to compile pcre myself?

Hi,

there are some issues with compiling Pcre yourselves (mainly caused bu different versions). But you might try this dependency package, which contains a version which seems to work: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cray ... p?download

HTH.

I tried that package, and the pcre thing went away. But now the compiler is complaining about not being able to find stlport_vc7_static.lib. Was it supposed to be in the package? Or can I compile it myself?

Ah sorry i should have added the forum topic as well:
http://www.cegui.org.uk/phpBB2/viewtopi ... light=pcre

You have to ignore the stlport_vc7_static.lib in your project's linker options.

Good luck!

How was PCRE built? Who made the dependency package? Is it magic or is it built like other libraries, with a compiler?

CE did vc7.1 and I did vc8.0. PCRE is the hardest library to build.

I will share my premake.lua which I personally used. It provides a prebuild option which will fix the config.h stuff, but you still need to generate pcre_chartables.c (check the non-unix readme).

to remove the debug messages look in pcre_internal.h and fix the DPRINTF macro.

HTH

I now, it's a very old topic. But I'm interest in building PCRE. I would like to embedded the lib for my project. I'm working on mvs2008.

You did not specify what, if any, problems you had when trying to build PCRE. Since this topic is 3y old, I doubt it is even remotely close to being relevant.

I built a static-lib version of PCRE (latest version as of 10/2008) without much trouble; I think you just need cmake to create the project files.

You are right

Well let me start with the problem that I got when I was trying to build my project. I got this warning with mvs9.0

pcre_d.lib(pcre_chartables.obj) : warning LNK4099: PDB 'vc90.pdb' was not found with

That's why I decide to rebuild pcre. Well, let me find some info about using cmake under windows, since I never used before.

Thanks

EDIT

OK, using CMAKE I was able to rebuild pcre and now I don't have the warning. Thanks

Maybe your pcre.lib is not a static lib but an import lib for some pcre.dll. remove /D "PCRE_STATIC" in CEGUI, or recompile pcre with PCRE_STATIC defined.