Building WebJames

I have put together a DDE MakeFile¹ for WebJames, and have set up OSLib², OSLibSupport², and added Steffan Bellon’s “regexlib”³, but I’m finding building is aborting with the error that “REG_OKAY” is unknown.
This doesn’t appear in the source, the headers, nor anywhere in regexlib.
Is there another version that I should be using?

¹ I don’t use GCC.

² I don’t use OSLib as DeskLib covers my needs.

³ http://www.sbellon.de/sw-ports.html

and added Steffan Bellon’s “regexlib”

Wasn’t there some issue with that regexlib version on modern hardware? Or am I thinking of something else?

AFAIK the RegEx module v1.06 (09 Dec 2006) is still ok.
I have had no reports of problems when used with Pluto … but I have no idea how widely it is used!

I checked my recent raspian, my pretty ancient slackware, and even my OS-9 port of Henry Spencer’s V8 REGEXP clone, and couldn’t find a define for REG_OKAY. No idea where it’s coming from. Sorry :-(

according to
jbox.dk

REG_OKAY is #defined as 0

thanks to my main man Ben for pointing this out!

So it looks like the GCCSDK regexp library is decended from Henry Spencer’s “nearly public domain” library, and regexp for the DDE…. is GNU. ;-)

With the appearance of our SSL.TLS from the mbed OS offering I can’t help wondering if there’s similar support for regex.

With the appearance of our SSL.TLS from the mbed OS offering I can’t help wondering if there’s similar support for regex.

My Go-To-List of C libraries has the following to offer (all BSD-licensed): Onigmo, Oniguruma, PCRE, TRE. Yes, the C guys are really into easily remembered names.

PCRE I’ve dealt with elsewhere, the others I don’t know.
The code seems to be actively maintained(latest 16-Apr-2019 14:31 for PCRE and PCRE2), wonder what it would take to bring it over?

Someone I was in contact with a couple of years ago ported PCRE as a module. I’m not sure if it was ever released. At the time I had plans to incorporate regular expression support into something, possibly Impact, but I didn’t get very far because other things keep coming up.

I could try to find the code if you are interested.

Someone I was in contact with a couple of years ago ported PCRE as a module. I’m not sure if it was ever released.

Would the person be Nicholas Cutler by any chance? Because a google search turns up this page and there should be an article in an old copy of Archive that Nicholas wrote.

Not a GPL offering :) and the source is included should anyone need to recompile for the newer architectures (last modifications of the source and the binary produced are February 2016)

I have put PDFs of the Archive articles by Nicholas Cutler here: http://archivemag.co.uk/TEMP/Cutler

I have put PDFs of the Archive articles by Nicholas Cutler here: http://archivemag.co.uk/TEMP/Cutler

A quick read brings up this text “PCRE has an exceptionally powerful and flexible syntax, and the library is often incorporated into open-source programs such as the Apache HTTP server and PHP scripting language.”

Which, I think, brings us back to the beginning of this discussion. Rick may have the answer to the REG_OKAY issue as Nicholas notes in the first part that PCRE relative to Steffans older port of Regex: “This is much more recent and offers more facilities, including Unicode support, but at present can only be linked with C programs.”

Oh, nice. Finally a library to try out… https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ncc25/ (bottom of the page, to the left of the obvious typo)

Oh, nice. Finally a library to try out… https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ncc25/

Ok, which link got your attention? My link yesterday: “Would the person be Nicholas Cutler by any chance? Because a google search turns up this page” or the link in the archive article I mentioned “an article in an old copy of Archive” that Jim gave a link to?

It’s hot and I’m looking for minimum effort for a while.

Would the person be Nicholas Cutler by any chance?

Yes, it would. I could remember who it was, but as I couldn’t remember whether he had made it public I didn’t like to say without checking.