Will tell you if it cannot find the appropriate libraries. Unix tarballs may also contain appropriate library source the configure script Source versions of these libraries, so no additional downloads are necessary. sit source archives include the appropriate To build Ghostscript you need the source code for the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) library, theĬompression and decompression library. See the section on unpacking the source code. You but it's up to you to locate that software. MS Windows, and VMS - so you can choose the format most convenient for Software to decompress and extract both formats is available for almostĮvery platform for which Ghostscript is available - including Unix, DOS, ('#.#' and '#' are version numbers in punctuated and unpunctuated form.) For all versions there are gzip-compressed tarįor recent versions of Ghostscript there are also zip files

Ghostscript source code is packaged in two different formats: Where '#' is the unpunctuated version number. The authoritative distribution site for AFPL

Ghostscript' and 'GPL Ghostscript' the distinction between them isĮxplained in the conditions for distributing There are two kinds of Ghostscript distributions available, called 'AFPL

The source code for some third-party libraries that Ghostscript uses. Ghostscript you must then install it for that, see theīuilding Ghostscript requires the Ghostscript source code itself, and also Note that some of this process is platform-dependent. The remainder of this document describes each of these steps in detail.

Configure the build to match your system and desired configuration options.

Unpack the archive files into the Ghostscript directory and correctly.

Acquire the compressed archive files of source code for Ghostscript and.

There are four major steps to building Ghostscript: This document describes how to build a Ghostscript executable from sourceĬode. Overview and the instructions on how to install

How to build Ghostscript with Free Typeįor other information, see the Ghostscript.

How to build Ghostscript from source (OpenVMS version).

How to build Ghostscript from source (OS/2 version).

How to build Ghostscript from source (Unix version).

How to build Ghostscript from source (MacOS version).

How to build Ghostscript from source (PC version).

How to check for post-release bug fixes.

How to unpack the third-party libraries.

How to unpack compressed tar files generally.

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