Re: Can I safely use PCRE in wiretap file reader?

[Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan () acmepacket com>]

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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