Is it possible to use a pure rust lib rather than onig?

[gilescope]

Is it possible to use a pure rust lib rather than onig? I'm mostly asking this question so that the answer is documented. When it's not pure rust people can have trouble compiling with gcc on windows on gnu toolchain - it requires more setup and configuration of a windows machine than just installing rustup.

As I said I'm sure there's some good reasons behind using onig versus depending on some parts of ripgrep, just would be nice to know so that I can stop wondering.... :-)

[dtolnay]

This crate doesn't use onig, it is pulled in through syntect. I am sad about it too. trishume/syntect#12

[gilescope]

Seems like soonish there might be a fancy-regex feature: trishume/syntect#270

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[trishume]

The fancy-regex mode was just merged and released as v4.0.0! You may want to try using it to fix this issue, although it does halve performance so you may only want to use it on platforms where it's needed.

Still hoping that onig's build will eventually improve but for now fancy-regex is a good option.

[gilescope]

Even as a feature that’s helpful. Ideally a bit of the readme can just say for the max-rust version do ‘X’.

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[trishume]

I've already added such a section to the Readme :)

[gilescope]

Thanks - I was thinking of the readme for cargo-expand as that’s where people will look for it initially.

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[dtolnay]

Fixed in 0.5.0.

[gilescope]

Beautiful, thanks to everyone involved!