diff --git a/recipes/pcre/build.sh b/recipes/pcre/build.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+export CFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
+export CPPFLAGS="-I$PREFIX/include"
+export LDFLAGS="-L$PREFIX/lib"
+
+./configure --enable-utf --enable-unicode-properties --enable-pcregrep-libz --enable-pcregrep-libbz2 --enable-pcre16 --enable-pcre32 --prefix=$PREFIX
+make
+make install
+
diff --git a/recipes/pcre/meta.yaml b/recipes/pcre/meta.yaml
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+
+package:
+    name: pcre
+    version: 8.38
+
+source:
+    fn: pcre-8.38.tar.gz
+    url: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.38.tar.gz
+    md5: 8a353fe1450216b6655dfcf3561716d9
+
+build:
+    number: 0
+
+requirements:
+    build:
+        - gcc  # [linux]
+        - llvm # [osx]
+        - zlib
+        - bzip2
+    run:
+        - zlib
+        - bzip2
+
+test:
+    commands:
+        - pcregrep --version
+        - pcretest -help
+
+about:
+    home:  http://pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcrebuild.html
+    license: 3-clause BSD License
+    summary: "Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
+