The original PCRE library is unmaintained and ftp.pcre.org is no more.
https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2
As well as downloading from the GitHub site, you can download ...
the older, unmaintained PCRE1 library from an unofficial mirror at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/
Check that you have the current versions of the
<ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/nsis/files/NSIS%203/">
NSIS installer</ulink>,
- <ulink url="https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/">PCRE library</ulink>,
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/">PCRE library</ulink>,
<ulink url="https://tls.mbed.org/download">MBED TLS library</ulink>,
<ulink url="https://github.com/google/brotli/releases">
Brotli library</ulink>,
<para>
Get the latest 8.x PCRE code from
- <ulink url="https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/">PCRE
- https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/</ulink>
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/">PCRE
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/</ulink>
and build the static PCRE libraries with
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# why does the mingw library _not_ include .a files for libpcre?
# *sigh* build my own pcre so I can do static linking
-# Get the 8.x PCRE library from https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/
+# Get the 8.x PCRE library from
+# https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcre/files/pcre/
inc="/source/pcre-8.45/"
lib="/source/pcre-8.45/.libs"
CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS} -I${inc}"