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 -- 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/