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 ghost@aladdin.com ; {uunet,sun,decwrl}!parcplace!aladdin!ghost ; (415)329-0264 "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."