Some temporary build instructions. This is work in progress. Windows Visual Studio To build pcre I downloaded the sourcecode from www.pcre.org. I downloaded cmake 2.8. Then I built the lib with: cmake . nmake The resulting files can be downloaded here (please try if it works): http://cppcheck.sf.net/pcre-8.10-vs.zip MINGW (Qt 4.7 SDK) I downloaded pcre-8.0-lib.zip from here: http://software-download.name/pcre-library-windows/ Linux The normal Makefile should work Install pcre on ubuntu might be needed: sudo apt-get install libpcre3 libpcre3-dev Mac OSX Install pcre: sudo port install pcre Ensure /path/to/pcre.h is in CXXFLAGS, e.g: export CXXFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}:/opt/local/include