ghost@aladdin.com (L. Peter Deutsch) (01/18/91)
A recent posting by Tom Arseneault asked about compiling Ghostscript
on MS-DOS machines.
1) A precompiled MS-DOS executable of Ghostscript 2.1 (not 2.1.1,
sorry) is available as part of the current Ghostscript fileset, under
the name ghostscript-2.1msdos.exe. It includes only the EGA and
Epson drivers. It should run on any PC-family machine with an
EGA-compatible display and at least 640K of RAM. A numeric
coprocessor is helpful, but not required.
2) I believe, although I may be wrong, that people who have Borland
Turbo C 2.0 are not having trouble building Ghostscript.
3) I believe that people *are* having trouble building Ghostscript
with Turbo C++ 1.0. I recently ordered this system from Borland, but
haven't received it yet. Once I have it, patches to make Ghostscript
compile properly with it will be available in very short order.
I hope this helps. Please let me know if you are having trouble
building Ghostscript with TC 2.0, or if you have successfully built
Ghostscript with TC++.
L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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