Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Dario Alcocer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15476.1493.17244.691095@coyote.priv.helixdigital.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:23:49 -0800 To: Charles Wilson Cc: Peter Ring , Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-6.51-3 In-Reply-To: <3C73F7CF.7070205@ece.gatech.edu> References: <3C73F7CF.7070205@ece.gatech.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Ring writes: Peter> Please forgive a silly question. Peter> I've rebuild the previous release (ghostscript-6.51-1) with Peter> X support (mainly for use with xdvik in order to view dvi's Peter> with postscript illustrations). Peter> While this were not a major hassle (just patch Peter> src/unix-gcc.mak a little, don't forget to set XLIBS=Xt SM Peter> ICE Xext X11), are there any reason not to release Peter> X-enabled binaries for ghostscript? Will gs then not run Peter> without the X runtime libraries? It's better to patch the X11 version of ghostscript, when that is eventually available (see below.) >>>>> "Chuck" == Charles Wilson writes: Chuck> Nope. If you link it against the X libraries, but then try Chuck> to run it on a system that doesn't have those DLLs Chuck> installed, you'll get "Couldn't find dynamic link library Chuck> "libXFOO.dll" in {path...}" errors. Chuck> ghostscript can't be distributed in X-linked form until the Chuck> cygwin-xfree guys create a setup-installable set of X Chuck> packages. (And perhaps, not even then; it's up to Dario) Actually, it's my intention that once cygwin-xfree is supported by setup.exe, I will create a separate package (or maybe just a separate binary) of Ghostscript that supports X. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/