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Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) on Windows

PCRE is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. The PCRE library is free, even for building commercial software.

Compiling for a Windows platform

I found it a bit difficult to compile PCRE on Windows (at least with MinGW). So, I decided to describe the necessary steps in case I or someone else needs the library in a Windows program.
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Rename pcre.in to pcre.h
Rename config.in to config.h
In config.h change: 
#define HAVE_STRERROR 1
#define HAVE_MEMMOVE  1
Compile dftables.c 
gcc dftables.c
This produces the executable a.exe.
Run a.exe as follows: 
a.exe chartables.c
This produces a c file: chartables.c. 
gcc pcre.c chartables.c get.c pcregrep.c pcreposix.c study.c

gcc -I. pcre.c chartables.c get.c pcredemo.c pcreposix.c  study.c

gcc -I. pcre.c get.c pcretest.c pcreposix.c  study.c maketables.c

Demo programs

test 1

C++ wrapper

I have written a C++ wrapper for PCRE.