L version of the library, it is
recommended that <b>PCRE2POSIX_SHARED</b> is defined before including the
<b>pcre2posix.h</b> header, as it will allow for a more efficient way to
invoke the functions by adding the <b>__declspec(dllimport)</b> decorator.
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Although they were not defined as prototypes in <b>pcre2posix.h</b>, releases
10.33 to 10.36 of the library contained functions with the POSIX names
<b>regcomp()</b> etc. These simply passed their arguments to the PCRE2
functions. These functions we