Instructions for building Gnu Grep and pcre2grep as a native windows application
All patches under the same license as sources of Gnu Grep: GPLv3 or later
Author of the patches: Michael M. Builov (mbuilov@yandex.ru)
- search in sub-directories is not working (grep -r produces "warning: xxx: recursive directory loop")
- fixed support for colorizing output of grep in Windows console (enabled via '--color' option; tip: use "color" command to reset console colors)
- now support for Perl regular expressions is statically complied in the grep executable
grep-3.8-x64.exe
- grep 3.8 built for Windows10 x64grep-3.8-x86.exe
- grep 3.8 built for WindowsXP x86pcre2grep-10.40-x64.exe
- pcre2grep 10.40 built for Windows10 x64pcre2grep-10.40-x86.exe
- pcre2grep 10.40 built for WindowsXP x86
For x64/Windows10/VS22:
For x86/WindowsXP/VS22: