cre2

Introduction

The CRE2 distribution is a C language wrapper for the RE2 library, which is implemented in C++. RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python.

This distribution makes use of the GNU Autotools. The last time the maintainer updated this paragraph, he had tested this package with a checkout of re2 on Apr 11, 2017.

License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the author nor the names of his contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Install

To install from a proper release tarball, do this:

$ cd cre2-0.1.0
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

to inspect the available configuration options:

$ ../configure --help

The Makefile is designed to allow parallel builds, so we can do:

$ make -j4 all && make -j4 check

which, on a 4-core CPU, should speed up building and checking significantly.

The Makefile supports the DESTDIR environment variable to install files in a temporary location, example: to see what will happen:

$ make -n install DESTDIR=/tmp/cre2

to really do it:

$ make install DESTDIR=/tmp/cre2

After the installation it is possible to verify the installed library against the test suite with:

$ make installcheck

From a repository checkout or snapshot (the ones from the Github site): we must install the GNU Autotools (GNU Automake, GNU Autoconf, GNU Libtool), then we must first run the script "autogen.sh" from the top source directory, to generate the needed files:

$ cd cre2
$ sh autogen.sh

notice that autogen.sh will run the programs autoreconf and libtoolize; the latter is selected through the environment variable LIBTOOLIZE, whose value can be customised; for example to run glibtoolize rather than libtoolize we do:

$ LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize sh autogen.sh

After this the procedure is the same as the one for building from a proper release tarball, but we have to enable maintainer mode:

$ ../configure --enable-maintainer-mode [options]
$ make
$ make check
$ make install

Usage

Read the documentation.

Credits

RE2 is a Google project. CRE2 is based on code by Keegan McAllister. This distribution was assembled by Marco Maggi.

Matthew Hall (https://github.com/megahall) contributed miscellaneous fixes.

Maksym Melnychok (https://github.com/keymone) contributed a fix for wrong usage of variable-length arrays.

afiaux (https://github.com/afiaux) contributed the RE2:Set() interface.

Guillaume Massé (https://github.com/MasseGuillaume) contributed fixes and the implementation of cre2_find_named_capturing_groups().

Bugs, vulnerabilities and contributions

Bug and vulnerability reports are appreciated, all the vulnerability reports are public; register them at the Issue Tracker at the project's Github site. For contributions and patches please use the Pull Requests feature at the project's Github site.

Resources

The latest release of this package can be downloaded from:

https://bitbucket.org/marcomaggi/cre2/downloads

development takes place at:

http://github.com/marcomaggi/cre2/

and as backup at:

https://bitbucket.org/marcomaggi/cre2/

the documentation is available online:

http://marcomaggi.github.io/docs/cre2.html

the GNU Project software can be found here:

http://www.gnu.org/

Badges and static analysis

Travis CI

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed continuous integration service used to build and test software projects hosted at GitHub. We can find this project's dashboard at:

https://travis-ci.org/marcomaggi/cre2

Usage of this service is configured through the file .travis.yml and the scripts under the directory meta/travis-ci.

Coverity Scan

Coverity Scan is a service providing the results of static analysis on open source coding projects. We can find this project's dashboard at:

https://scan.coverity.com/projects/marcomaggi-cre2

Usage of this service is implemented with make rules; see the relevant section in the file Makefile.am. To access the service a unique token is needed: this token is private and is owned by the current maintainer.

Clang's Static Analyzer

The Clang Static Analyzer is a source code analysis tool that finds bugs in C, C++, and Objective-C programs. It is distributed along with Clang and we can find it at:

http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/

Usage of this service is implemented with make rules; see the relevant section in the file Makefile.am.

Codecov

Codecov is a service providing code coverage reports. We can find this project's dashboard at:

https://codecov.io/gh/marcomaggi/cre2

Usage of this service is implemented through direct interface between GitHub and Codecov sites; it configured through the file codecov.yml and appropriate entries in Travis CI's matrix of builds.

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