Hello Hin-Tak!

> Just wish to point out that a copy of the whole of freetype is
> bundled with ghostscript, and ghostscript has been routinely built
> for win64 for quite a few years.  For as long as it was, the
> preferred compiler for building ghostscript for windows has always
> been MS VC.

I haven't looked for some time, but AFAIK they are using a very
special set of FreeType source code files, not a vanilla FreeType 2
distribution.

> Also, visual studio 2008+(?) express is freely downloadable and runs
> quite well with wine, and wine's 64-bit windows emulation is
> sufficient for 64-bit ghostscript to run as far as I remember.  (and
> since freetype is bundled and built with ghostscript, by extension
> "it should all just work".)

Good to know, thanks.


     Werner

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