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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-6.51-3
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Peter Ring <pri at magnus dot dk>
- Cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:23:59 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: ghostscript-6.51-3
- References: <ADF57C3C368ED411803C00508BCDF1A559C85E@cddkmail.cph.magnus.local>
Peter Ring wrote:
> Please forgive a silly question.
>
> I've rebuild the previous release (ghostscript-6.51-1) with X support
> (mainly for use with xdvik in order to view dvi's with postscript
> illustrations).
>
> While this were not a major hassle (just patch src/unix-gcc.mak a little,
> don't forget to set XLIBS=Xt SM ICE Xext X11), are there any reason not
> to release X-enabled binaries for ghostscript? Will gs then not run
> without the X runtime libraries?
Nope. If you link it against the X libraries, but then try to run it on
a system that doesn't have those DLLs installed, you'll get "Couldn't
find dynamic link library "libXFOO.dll" in {path...}" errors.
ghostscript can't be distributed in X-linked form until the cygwin-xfree
guys create a setup-installable set of X packages. (And perhaps, not
even then; it's up to Dario)
--Chuck
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