[Chicken-users] Why no PCRE for Windows?

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#;1> (use regex)
; loading library regex ...
#;2> (test-feature? 'pcre)
#f
#;3> (test-feature? 'pregexp)
#t

The newLISP executable for windows includes the PCRE engine
and is only 180,736 bytes in size.

#;4> (string-search "foo.*bar" "foo\nbar")
#f
#;5> (string-search "foo.*bar" "foo-bar")
("foo-bar")

The dot doesn't match a newline.  Using either regular-expression
engine, how does one change that?

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