>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Ring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.helixdigital.com
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