[fpc-pascal] PCRE

[S. Fisher]

--- Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

> > > Doing a dumb header port is not that hard. If you can't do it, start
> making
> > > tests, and I'll do it.
> 
> (skip nonsense stuff)
> 
> > So why use the JCL? Just do all the translations yourself.. forget JCL.
> 
> - JCL's license is MPL and thus not suitable for inclusion in FPC
>    http://wiki.freepascal.org/licensing
> - JCL is not in a runnable state for most FPC targets.
> - translated Delphi headers are typically not clean for cross platform
> (most
>   notably 64-bit) use.

After making a few tiny changes to the Delphi source, I got this
to compile and work:

http://www.renatomancuso.com/software/dpcre/dpcre.htm

The author says that he had to modify the C source and
recompile in order to give Pascal access to all pcre
features.


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