Re: StreamDevice error involving PCRE library in Debian Trixie

["Zimoch, Dirk via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

There is a branch on github where I started with pcre-2 support.

Dirk

Am 19.03.2026 um 10:25 schrieb Windsor Tanner via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>:



Hello All,

My question pertains to getting StreamDevice to build on Debian Trixie, as device support for EPICS.

We're running into the following error related to the discrepancy between the "new"  library packaged in Trixie, 
and the one which StreamDevice depends on:

../RegexpConverter.cc:31:10: fatal error: pcre.h: No such file or directory
   31 | #include "pcre.h"

Does anyone know of a workaround/solution for this, other than perhaps resorting to the legacy PCRE library? 
Is there a configuration setting in the  StreamDevice clone that could be changed to point to the location of the 
pcre2.h header in Trixie?

It seems Debian removed the package (ibpcre3-dev) from Trixie that would have been compatible with StreamDevice .

Thanks in advance,

Windsor