Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader?

From: Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:10:57 -0400
OK, cool, got it.
thanks again!


On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> 
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:46:43PM -0400, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the tip! (I had looked at GRegex but worried about older 
>> GLib, but version checking is fine with me) BTW, your answer of "yes" 
>> means I cannot safely use plain PCRE, or yes I can safely use it?
> 
> You can use PCRE instead, but make sure to wrap it in #ifdef 
> HAVE_LIBPCRE (which requires having #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H /
> #include "config.h" at the top).  However, the configure script will 
> prefer GRegex over PCRE (see configure.in).  I didn't look carefully at 
> how GRegex was added to Wireshark as someone else committed it, but it 
> sounds like GRegex is preferred and pcre *may* go away some day 
> (probably not anytime soon though).
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