Error installing PCRE

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I'm trying to install PCRE on my Ubuntu 11.10 Server. When I run the "make" command, I get a really long output which always ends in this error:

libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libpcreposix.la" && ln -s "../libpcreposix.la" "libpcreposix.la" ) source='pcrecpp.cc' object='pcrecpp.lo' libtool=yes \
        DEPDIR=.deps depmode=none /bin/bash ./depcomp \
        /bin/bash ./libtool --tag=CXX   --mode=compile  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.      -c -o pcrecpp.lo pcrecpp.cc libtool: compile: unrecognized option `-DHAVE_CONFIG_H' libtool: compile: Try `libtool
--help' for more information. make[1]: *** [pcrecpp.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/root/src/pcre/pcre-8.12' make:
*** [all] Error 2

I did run "configure". Any ideas?

Gough answered 23/10, 2011 at 13:36 Comment(1)

Which pcre? (Name of tarball) – Lucrecialucretia 23/10, 2011 at 14:24

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You need a C++ compiler installed, you'll most likely want g++.

With apt-get, run 'apt-get install g++', or 'apt-get install build-essential', since build-essential includes g++.

Lindner answered 28/11, 2011 at 9:34 Comment(7)

Indeed, ${CXX} seems to have expanded to the empty string here. Arguably, pcre's configure should have caught that - or not attempt buliding pcrecpp. – Promiscuous 28/1, 2012 at 1:44

Doing this didn't quite work for me. It's the same error. Do I need to specify some configure option? – Broadcaster 28/1, 2012 at 14:34

minitech: Can you see what $CXX expands to? What output does 'g++ --version' give? – Ehtelehud 30/1, 2012 at 15:18

@minitech I don't know if you did, but I received the same error, even after installing build-essential. What I did was removing the pcre-8.31 dir. Unpacking it again, doing the ./configure and then make worked! – Homolographic 3/10, 2012 at 11:11

It's always good to clean up after a failed build after installing new packages; 'make clean' usually does the trick. – Ehtelehud 26/11, 2012 at 9:17

I got this error during the install: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494006. Running yum clean metadata resolved the error and I was able to install gcc-c++. – Pemmican 5/5, 2014 at 18:37

If gcc is installed and it supports c++, why is still needed to install g++? – Gotcher 30/3, 2017 at 9:32

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PCRE tries to build c++ output without having a c++ compiler. Try

./configure --disable-cpp

to disable the C++ options.

Uticas answered 14/2, 2013 at 11:10 Comment(1)

If cpp is disabled by using --without-pgsql, what are the ramifications?? – Chuff 28/10, 2013 at 17:29

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Why not find PCRE using apt-cache search pcre | grep pcre and then use apt-get install to install PCRE? I think PCRE has been already included in the repository.

This is the result of the above command in my computer (Ubuntu 10.04):

$ apt-cache search pcre | grep pcre
libpcre3-dbg - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - debug symbols
libpcre3-dev - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - development files
libpcrecpp0 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - C++ runtime files
libpcre3 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library - runtime files
cl-ppcre - Portable Regular Express Library for Common Lisp
gambas2-gb-pcre - The Gambas regexp component
haskell-pcre-light-doc - library documentation for pcre-light
libghc6-pcre-light-dev - Haskell library for Perl 5-compatible regular expressions
libghc6-pcre-light-prof - pcre-light library with profiling enabled
liblua5.1-rex-pcre-dev - PCRE development files for the Lua language version 5.1
liblua5.1-rex-pcre0 - Perl regular expressions library for the Lua language version 5.1
libpcre++-dev - C++ wrapper class for pcre (development)
libpcre++0 - C++ wrapper class for pcre (runtime)
libpcre-ocaml - OCaml bindings for PCRE (runtime)
libpcre-ocaml-dev - OCaml bindings for PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expression)
pcregrep - grep utility that uses perl 5 compatible regexes.
pike7.6-pcre - PCRE module for Pike
sqlite3-pcre - Perl-compatible regular expression support for SQLite
postfix-pcre - PCRE map support for Postfix

Lodicule answered 29/1, 2012 at 9:32 Comment(1)

People are trying to install version 8. TheBuggenie uses pcre version 8, god knows why they would use something that would make it impossible get started on their product. Painful installing thebuggenie. – Photoflood 7/6, 2012 at 5:18

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I've had the same problem and the solution was to do everything suggested in the other answers and installing the developement files for PCRE:

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libtool
apt-get install libpcre3-dev
apt-get install libpcre3

Comical answered 27/7, 2012 at 10:44 Comment(0)

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When I run configure I get:

libpcre checking for windows.h... no configure: error: Invalid C++ compiler or C++ compiler flags

Fix was to install g++ as Fredrik mentioned. On CentOS: yum install gcc-c++

Blitzkrieg answered 14/6, 2018 at 18:48 Comment(0)

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To install pcre package, you need to run 2 commands:

apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev
apt-get install build-essential libpcre3-dev libxslt1-dev libgd2-xpm-dev libgeoip-dev libssl-dev

Ferraro answered 25/10, 2016 at 13:38 Comment(1)

Hello! Very short answers are generally poorly-received here. If you can make your answer longer, you'll start getting upvotes. – Umbrage 26/10, 2016 at 12:50

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I found an answer as to why, but not a cure; (i know this is an old question but I thought I would contribute anyway).

I found pcre was already installed on my system, but apparently libtool was not. When I tried to sudo apt-get install libtool i got

Package libtool is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

Don't have much of an idea why this is happening, but working on finding out! Hopes this answers your question.

Chouest answered 8/5, 2012 at 20:19 Comment(1)

askubuntu.com/q/391184/20972 might help, but suggest creating a whole new question out of this. – Blitzkrieg 14/6, 2018 at 18:49

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