PCRE Linker error

[Pint0 Xtreme]

Hey there,

I'm trying to rebuild CEGUIBase and I've included the PCRE, Freetype2 and ZLIB libraries. However, I get the following linker error:

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1>CEGUIPCRERegexMatcher.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _pcre_free referenced in function "private: void __thiscall CEGUI::PCRERegexMatcher::release(void)" (?release@PCRERegexMatcher@CEGUI@@AAEXXZ)

Am I using an incorrect version of the PCRE libraries? What am I missing?

[CrazyEddie]

What am I missing?

I don't know what you're missing, but I can tell you that this post is missing a lot of information. While the content that might be needed here may not be explicitly covered, please follow the 'spirit' of the guidelines and include as much pertinent information as possible (version numbers, compiler information, build configurations and so on, and so forth).

At a guess, I would say you're passing to the linker a pcre.lib that pertains to a DLL, whereas from the error, I think it's expecting a static archive.

CE

[Pint0 Xtreme]

What am I missing?

I don't know what you're missing, but I can tell you that this post is missing a lot of information. While the content that might be needed here may not be explicitly covered, please follow the 'spirit' of the guidelines and include as much pertinent information as possible (version numbers, compiler information, build configurations and so on, and so forth).

At a guess, I would say you're passing to the linker a pcre.lib that pertains to a DLL, whereas from the error, I think it's expecting a static archive.

CE

I apologize. I'm using the latest stable build of CEGUI along with PCRE 7.0. I'm compiling on Visual Studio 2008 C++ Express and this occurs on the release and debug build configurations. I'm not sure whatever pertinent information I'm missing.

In the CEGUIPCRERegexMatcher.cpp file, I replaced

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pcre_free(d_regex);

with

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free(d_regex);

And that seemed to have "fixed" the linker issue though I'm unclear what complications are by not using the pcre_free function to clear the memory.

But you're probably right. I'm passing the linker a pcre.lib.