Recompile DLL

[jim77]

Hello all,

I'm a c# programmer and I have poor knowledge in c++.
I need to recompile DLL of PCRE – a regular expression C library, that I'm working with. I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008.

The PCRE serves as regular expression C library for the IIRF – a freeware Rewrite engine for IIS 5/6.

By default that library does not supports Unicode characters.
My target is to enable Unicode support by adding this line of code before make, as it explained at this site: http://www.regular-expressions.info/pcre.html#supportucp

The code:
./configure --enable-unicode-properties

The source code includes:
1. Makefile
2. pcre.h

My questions are:
1. What kind of project is needed to open in VS 2005 for this purpose?
2. Where do I insert that line of code and what it means "before make…"?
3. Finally, how to compile the project to a DLL with the extension *.lib?


IIRF - Ionic's ISAPI Rewrite Filter: http://cheeso.members.winisp.net/IIRF.aspx
PCRE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Expressions

Thank a lot,
Jimi,