PCRE2-10.00 and xymon

Question

When I configure and make install PCRE2-10.00 and go to xymon-4.3.18 to configure I get the following:

Checking for PCRE ...
test-pcre.c:1:18: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make: *** [test-compile] Error 1
ERROR: Cannot compile using PCRE library.
gcc: error: test-pcre.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [test-link] Error 1
ERROR: Cannot link with PCRE library.
Missing PCRE include- or library-files. These are REQUIRED for xymond
PCRE can be found at http://www.pcre.org/
If you have PCRE installed, use the "--pcreinclude DIR" and "--pcrelib DIR"
options to configure to specify where they are.

Don't know what to do. I was trying things but no success. Can some one help me or gives me advice?

David Foerster · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-02T12:05:22.467

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You need to install the PCRE development files package:

sudo apt-get install libpcre3-dev

If the build configuration script still doesn't find it (which I find unlikely, because the header files are placed in a standard location), use:

./configure --pcreinclude /usr/include

edited Mar 02 '15 at 12:05

answered Mar 02 '15 at 09:52

David Foerster

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Thank you, it worked. :) now I have other problems with installation of xymon-4.3.18. – Hunt7 Mar 02 '15 at 10:25
Thank you and sorry mait. Anyway it relay helped. I'm new to Linux. How did you know the name of the file (libpcre3-dev) or what to install if something is missing? – Hunt7 Mar 02 '15 at 11:58
See https://askubuntu.com/q/34704/175814 – David Foerster Mar 02 '15 at 12:02

PCRE2-10.00 and xymon

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