[fpc-devel] Unit libpcre2_16 not found

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2026, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel wrote:

> Trying to build fpc (git) trunk on macOS 14 for SUB_TARGET=unicodertl
>
> [M2:~/fpc-svn/source/packages] administrator% make all 
> FPC=/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/ppca64 SUB_TARGET=unicodertl OPT=-dUSEWIDESTRING
>
> which works for the rtl but fails for packages as follows
>
> Compiling ./vcl-compat/src/system.diagnostics.pp
> ...
> Compiling ./vcl-compat/src/system.regularexpressions.pp
> Compiling ./vcl-compat/src/system.regularexpressionscore.pp
> system.regularexpressionscore.pp(57,7) Fatal: Can't find unit libpcre2_16 
> used by System.RegularExpressionsCore
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
>
> The installer encountered the following error:
> Compilation of "units/aarch64-darwin-unicodertl/BuildUnit_vcl_compat.pp" 
> failed
>  $0000000104D6C76C
>  $0000000104D772A0
>  $0000000104D762C4
>  $0000000104D775CC
>  $0000000104D7A908
>  $0000000104D6B01C
>  $0000000104D6B760
>  $0000000104CB188C
>  $0000000104CD9BEC
>  $0000000104C30780
>  $0000000104CB1838
>  $0000000188937154
> make: *** [all] Error 1
>
>
> Any clues ?

Yes, there is no libpcre2_16 on mac. On mac, libpcre2_8 must be used. 
I never got around to correcting the sources for unicodertl.

Please report a bug.

Michael.