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Copyright (C) 1989, 1995 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved. This file is part of GNU Ghostscript. GNU Ghostscript is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Ghostscript General Public License for full details. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This file, make.doc, describes how to install Ghostscript, and how to build Ghostscript executables from source. For an overview of Ghostscript and a list of the documentation files, see README. ******** ******** Installing Ghostscript ******** To install the interpreter, you need: - The interpreter executable: - On MS-DOS systems: - With 80286 CPUs, gs.exe. - With 32-bit CPUs and using the Watcom compiler, gs386.exe and the DOS extender dos4gw.exe. - With 32-bit CPUs and using the DJGPP compiler, gs.exe and the DOS extender go32.exe. - On MS Windows: - Ordinarily, gswin.exe. - With Win32s, gswin32.exe. - On MS Windows NT, gswin32.exe. - On OS/2, gsos2.exe and gspmdrv.exe. - On VMS systems, gs.exe. - On Unix systems, gs. - The interpreter initialization files: gs_*.ps. - The font map: Fontmap. See use.doc for a description of the search algorithm used to find these files. You do not need any of these files when using the library; however, the library currently provides no way to install fonts. This is obviously ridiculous and will be fixed sometime in the future. ******** ******** Building Ghostscript from source ******** Ghostscript is generally distributed in the form of a compressed tar file (.tar.gz). When unpacked, this file puts all the Ghostscript files in a directory called gsA.BC, where A.BC is the version number. Ghostscript is also available in the form of PC-compatible .zip files. Ghostscript uses a library provided by the Independent JPEG Group. This library is included in the Ghostscript distribution in a separate file. If you already have a copy of a version of this library that is compatible with Ghostscript, you won't have to FTP or unpack it again. Please see the file jpeg.mak for information about which version(s) of the IJG code are compatible with Ghostscript. This library does not include the gsA.BC prefix; you should make the gsA.BC directory current before you unpack the JPEG archive. Ghostscript is described by a collection of several makefiles: gs.mak, jpeg.mak - generic makefiles used on all platforms (except VMS). devs.mak - a makefile listing all the device drivers. *.mak - the makefiles for specific platforms. You may need to edit the platform-specific makefile if you wish to change any of the following: - The name of the makefile itself (MAKEFILE macro); - The default search path(s) for the initialization and font files (GS LIB_DEFAULT_macro); - The debugging options (DEBUG and TDEBUG macros); - The set of device drivers to be included (DEVICE_DEVS and DEVICE_DEVS1..9 macros); - The set of optional features to be included (FEATURE_DEVS macro). The platform-specific makefile will include comments describing all of these items except the DEVICE_DEVS options; the available DEVICE_DEVS options (device drivers) are described in devs.mak, even though the file that must be edited is the platform-specific makefile. (These comments do not apply to the VMS platform; it has its own procedures, which are described near the end of this document.) The makefiles distributed with Ghostscript define these options as follows: - MAKEFILE: the xxx.mak name of the makefile as distributed (platform-specific). - GS_LIB_DEFAULT: on Unix systems, /usr/local/lib/ghostscript and /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts; on MS-DOS systems, . and C:\GS. Note that on Unix systems, GS_LIB_DEFAULT does not include . (the current directory). - DEBUG, TDEBUG: no debugging code included in the build. - DEVICE_DEVS*: platform-specific, see below. - FEATURE_DEVS: platform-specific. There are also platform-specific options described below under the individual platforms. See the "Options" section near the beginning of the relevant makefile for more information. If you are including a dot-matrix printer driver, you may wish to customize the default resolution parameters in devs.mak. To build the interpreter, you need all the .h and .c files (and .asm files for MS-DOS) included in the distribution, as well as the makefiles. The command make clean removes all the files created by the build process (relocatables, executables, and miscellaneous scratch files). If you want to save the executable, you should move it to another directory first. Features and devices -------------------- When compiling Ghostscript, you may configure it with any of a variety of features, and with any subset of the available device drivers. You will find the complete list of features in a comment at the beginning of the file gs.mak, and the complete list of drivers in a comment at the beginning of devs.mak. To find out what devices a particular makefile selects for inclusion in the executable, find the lines in the makefile of the form FEATURE_DEVS=<list of features> and DEVICE_DEVS=<list of devices> (similarly DEVICE_DEVS1... up to DEVICE_DEVS15) For example, the makefile for Unix platforms defines FEATURE_DEVS=level2.dev indicating that the PostScript Level 2 facilities should be included. You may wish to change this to FEATURE_DEVS=level2.dev pdf.dev to add the ability to interpret PDF files. The Unix makefile also defines DEVICE_DEVS=x11.dev DEVICE_DEVS9=pbm.dev pbmraw.dev pgm.dev pgmraw.dev ppm.dev ppmraw.dev indicating that the X11 driver and all of the Portable Bit/Gray/PixMap file drivers should be included. You may edit the FEATURE_DEVS line to select any desired set of features (as listed near the beginning of gs.mak), and the DEVICE_DEVS* line(s) to select any desired set of device drivers (as listed near the beginning of devs.mak). The first device listed in the definition of DEVICE_DEVS will be used as the default device (unless overridden from the command line with -sDEVICE=xxx, of course.) If you can't fit all the devices on a single line, you may add lines defining DEVICE_DEVS2=<dev21>.dev ... <dev2n>.dev DEVICE_DEVS3=<dev31>.dev ... <dev3n>.dev etc. up to DEVICE_DEVS15. Don't use continuation lines -- this doesn't work on some platforms. ******** ******** How to build Ghostscript from source (PC version) ******** ******** The relevant makefiles are: Turbo C: tc.mak Turbo C++/Borland C++, MS-DOS: bc.mak Borland C++, MS Windows: bcwin.mak Borland C++ 4.0, MS Windows with Win32s or MS Windows NT: bcwin32.mak Microsoft C/C++ 7.0, MS-DOS: msc.mak Watcom C/386 or C++, MS-DOS: watc.mak Watcom C/386 or C++, MS Windows (NOT DEBUGGED YET): watcwin.mak DJGPP, DESQview/X: dvx-gcc.mak The options were chosen to strike a balance between RAM consumption and likely usefulness. (Turbo C is limited to 640K and does not support code overlaying; Borland C++ is limited to 640K, but supports code overlaying under MS-DOS; the Watcom and DJGPP compilers are not limited to 640K.) To build Ghostscript, you need MS-DOS version 3.3 or later, and a (Borland) Turbo C/C++, Borland C/C++, Microsoft C/C++ (version 7), Watcom C/386 (version 8.5 or later) or C++ (any version), or the free djgpp + go32 development system. Details are given below. As noted above, the default configuration generates an executable that assumes the directory where 'make' was run should be the final default directory for looking up the Ghostscript initialization and font files. To build the Ghostscript executable, all you need to do is give the command make You must have COMMAND.COM in your path to build Ghostscript. There is a special 'make' target that simply attempts to compile all the .c files in the current directory. Some of these compilations will fail, but the ones that succeed will go considerably faster, because they don't individually pay the overhead of loading the compiler into memory. So a good strategy for building the executable for the first time, or after a change to a very widely used .h file, is: make begin and then make to do the compilations that failed the first time. Note: if you get the Ghostscript sources from a Unix 'tar' file and unpack the file on a MS-DOS machine, the files will all have linefeed instead of carriage return + linefeed as the line terminator, which may make the C compiler unhappy. I don't know the simplest way to fix this: just reading each file into an editor and writing it back out again may be sufficient. You will probably have to do this to the .c, .h, and .bat files. Borland environment ------------------- To compile Ghostscript with the Borland environment, you need either Turbo C (version 2.0 or later) or Turbo C++ or Borland C++ (version 1.0 or later); specifically, the compiler, 'make' utility, and linker. You also need either the Borland assembler (version 1.0 or later) or the Microsoft assembler (version 4.0 or later). Before compiling or linking, you should execute echo !include "tc.mak" >makefile (for Turbo C and MS-DOS), or echo !include "bc.mak" >makefile (for Turbo C++ or Borland C++ and MS-DOS), or echo !include "bcwin.mak" >makefile (for Turbo C++ or Borland C++ and Microsoft Windows), or echo !include "bcwin32.mak" >makefile (for Borland C++ and Microsoft Windows with Win32s or Microsoft Windows NT) Besides the source files and the makefiles, you need: turboc.cfg (the flags and switches for Turbo C) gs.tr (the linker commands for the interpreter) *.bat (a variety of batch files used in the build process) There are extensive comments in the aforementioned .mak files regarding various configuration parameters. If your configuration is different from the following, you should definitely read those comments and see if you want or need to change any of the parameters: - The compiler files are in c:\tc (for Turbo C) or c:\bc (for Turbo C++ or Borland C++) and its subdirectories. - You are using the Borland assembler (tasm). - You want an executable that will run on any PC-compatible, regardless of processor type (8088, 8086, V20, 80186, 80286, V30, 80386, 80486) and regardless of whether a math coprocessor (80x87) is present. NOTE: Borland C++ 3.0 has two problems that affect Ghostscript (these problems are fixed in Borland C++ 3.1): - The assembler, tasm, often crashes when attempting to assemble gdevegaa.asm. If this happens, try again, or use another assembler (e.g., an older version of tasm) if you have one, or set USE_ASM=0 in the makefile. - The math library for Microsoft Windows, mathwl.lib, has a bug that causes floating point numbers to print incorrectly. Contact Borland for a corrected version. If you are compiling Ghostscript with Turbo C++ 1.0, remove the `.swap' directive from bc.mak, and use the -s switch on the `make' command line. (All later versions of the Borland environment recognize this directive.) Note that although the Microsoft Windows version of Ghostscript will run under Windows 3.0, it uses routines from the Windows 3.1 SDK, so you need the Windows 3.1 SDK and header files to compile it. In practice, this means that you need Borland C++ 3.1; Borland C++ 3.0 doesn't include the necessary headers. If building for the MS Windows Win32s environment, you need bcc32.cfg instead of turboc.cfg. The make process will stop after it has created genarch.exe. You should then run 'win genarch arch.h', wait until genarch has finished and then exit MS Windows. Then type 'make' again to restart the make process. If building for MS Windows NT, you also need bcc32.cfg instead of turboc.cfg, but the make process will run to completion automatically. Microsoft environment --------------------- To compile Ghostscript with the Microsoft environment, you need Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 or later with its associated `nmake' utility and linker. Before compiling or linking, you should execute echo !include msc.mak >makefile Besides the source files and the makefiles, you need: gs.tr (the linker commands for the interpreter) *.bat (a variety of batch files used in the build process) All previous versions of Microsoft C/C++ are of such poor quality that we strongly advise you not to attempt to compile Ghostscript with them. In particular, C/C++ 7.0 is the first version that is even close to being ANSI-compliant, and its 'nmake' program is very unreliable (it crashes partway through the build process with a variety of error messages, or no error message) and cannot write its error messages to a file. Aladdin Enterprises does not currently have a copy of the Microsoft compiler. If you encounter problems with it, we will not be able to help you; please post them to the Usenet gnu.ghostscript.bug newsgroup. Watcom environment ------------------ Before compiling, change the definition of the WCVERSION macro in the makefile (watc.mak or watcwin.mak) to the version of the Watcom compiler you are using. This is necessary to handle some minor incompatibilities between versions. To avoid annoying messages from the DOS extender, add the line set DOS4G=quiet to your autoexec.bat file. To compile Ghostscript with the Watcom compiler, create a makefile by executing echo !include watc.mak >makefile To build Ghostscript, execute wmakel -u Note that Watcom C/386 version 8.5 does not include wmakel (the 32-bit version of wmake). If this is the version that you have, try using wmake instead, i.e., wmake -u If you get an "Error(F01): Out of memory", you may wish to try reducing the total size of the makefiles by editing devs.mak to remove drivers that you don't ever intend to use. If you still get this error, contact Watcom technical support; they will be able to send you the wmakel program, probably at no charge. DesqView/X and djgcc environment -------------------------------- The name of the makefile for this environment is dvx-gcc.mak. The DesqView/X port of Ghostscript was contributed by Tom Brosnan (tjb@chalone.stanford.edu), with further contributions by Stephen Turnbull (turnbull@shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp). It uses djgcc (DJ Delorie's MSDOS port of gcc) for compiling. djgcc assumes that go32.exe is in your search path. You need to set an environment variable to tell go32 where to put any paging files, e.g. set GO32TMP=e:/tmp If you don't have go32.exe, you can get it from Internet host oak.oakland.edu. The extender and minimum run-time environment are in the file djeoeXXX.zip, where XXX is the version number (currently 112). Patched versions of the extender (as well as other components) are found in the files djXXXmY.zip, XXX is again the compiler version, Y is the patchlevel. Y is currently 2. People who are just running the executable need only get the file with the highest level of Y that contains GO32.EXE and do "unzip -j djXXXmY go32.exe" (InfoZIP) or "pkunzip djXXXmY go32.exe" (PKWare), then move the extender to their PATH. If you do not have a hardware FPU, you will also need the floating point emulator EMU387 found in djeoeXXX.zip (and possibly in the patch releases as well). You MUST use an emulator designed to work with GO32; the emulators often found as TSRs will not work. See the file README found in djeoeXXX.zip, or the file README.1ST in pub/msdos/djgpp on Simtel for further information. The DJGPP v1.12 compiler suite is known to have problems with linking large file sets. If you run into this problem, you can work around it by using the v1.11 GO32 as follows: (1) get dj111m5.zip from turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp:/pub/djgpp/1.11 (2) unzip GO32.EXE. Be careful not to overwrite other versions! (3) rename it, eg, to GO111M5.EXE (4) move the renamed GO32.EXE to your path (5) stubedit ld.exe: (the stubedit utility is part of djeoe112.zip) (a) change the extender name to the one you chose in (3). The .EXE extension may be omitted (b) change the version required to 1.11 (c) accept the defaults for the remaining options. ******** ******** How to build Ghostscript from source (OS/2 version) ******** ******** The relevant makefile is: os2.mak The EMX/GCC 0.8h compiler and the IBM NMAKE.EXE are required. Before compiling or linking, you should execute copy os2.mak makefile Then to start the make process type nmake Two EXE's will be produced: gsos2.exe (Ghostscript) and gspmdrv.exe (the Presentation Manager display driver). gsos2.exe will also run under MS-DOS if a device other than os2pm is selected. ******** ******** How to build Ghostscript from source (Unix version) ******** ******** The makefile distributed with Ghostscript selects the following devices for inclusion in the build: Display: X Windows driver. File output: pbm, pbmraw, pgm, pgmraw, ppm, and ppmraw drivers. Before compiling or linking, you should execute ln -s unix-cc.mak makefile or ln -s unix-gcc.mak makefile or ln -s unixansi.mak makefile (if your Unix system doesn't support symbolic links, omit the -s switch) depending on whether your C compiler is a traditional Kernighan & Ritchie C compiler, gcc, or an ANSI C compiler other than gcc respectively. (If you want to use gcc in traditional mode, use unix-cc.mak and define the CC macro to refer to gcc.) The unix-*.mak files are actually generated mechanically from *head.mak, *tail.mak, unix-end.mak, gs.mak, jpeg.mak, and devs.mak by a script called tar_cat. If for some reason your copy of Ghostscript doesn't include the unix-*.mak files, run tar_cat to construct them. If you wish to edit any part of the makefile, DO NOT EDIT THE FILE NAMED makefile OR unix{ansi,cc,gcc}.mak. EDIT THE ORIGINAL COMPONENT MAKEFILE (*head.mak, *tail.mak, unix-end.mak, gs.mak, jpeg.mak, OR devs.mak) AND RUN tar_cat AGAIN. Consult tar_cat to find the names of the component files. If the X11 client header files are located in some directory which your compiler does not automatically search, you must change the XINCLUDE macro the makefile to include a specific -I switch. See the comment preceding XINCLUDE in the makefile. Currently Ghostscript is set up to compile and link in a generic Unix environment. Some Unix environments may require changing the LDFLAGS macro in the makefile. All you need to do to make an executable is invoke the shell command make Ghostscript uses ANSI syntax for function definitions. Because of this, when compiling with cc, it must preprocess each .c file to convert it to the older syntax defined in Kernighan and Ritchie, which is what most current Unix compilers (other than gcc) support. This step is automatically performed by a utility called ansi2knr, which is included in the Ghostscript distribution. The makefile automatically builds ansi2knr. The ansi2knr preprocessing step is included in the makefile rule for compiling .c files. ansi2knr creates a file called _temp_.c to hold the converted code. If you want to change this name for some reason, it is defined in unix-cc.mak. Platform-specific notes ----------------------- 386 Unix: gcc versions older than 1.38 on Intel 80386 systems do not compile Ghostscript correctly using the -O option. Do not use -O in these environments. gcc 1.39 under 386BSD has a bug that causes float-to-integer conversions to compile incorrectly. Do not use this version of gcc. X11R5 may need #include <stddef.h> in x_.h. Also see below regarding System V platforms. Alpha (AXP) with OSF/1.2: The optimizer in cc is broken. If you are compiling with cc, use the unixansi.mak makefile, and the command line make CC=cc CFLAGS= EXTRALIBS=-lXmu If you are compiling with gcc, use version 2.5.0 or later, with the unix-gcc.mak makefile, and the command line make CFLAGS=-O2 EXTRALIBS=-lXmu (libXmu is needed to resolve reference _XEditResCheck from libXt, which is peculiar to OSF/1.) You will probably need to change the definition of INSTALL in the makefile from install to installbsd. Alpha (AXP) with OSF/1.3: The optimizer is OK, but needs to be told to allocate extra table space to be able to handle some of the larger files: make CC=cc CFLAGS="-Olimit 1000" The linker in the c89 compiler is broken, so even if you compile with c89, you must link with cc. You do not need to set EXTRALIBS=-lXmu. You will probably need to change the definition of INSTALL in the makefile from install to installbsd. Alpha (AXP) with OpenVMS: DEC C V4.0 or later is required. The DEC C V1.3 run-time library has bugs that prevent Ghostscript from working. Apollo: You must run the compiler in ANSI-compatible mode (i.e., set AK= <null string> in the makefile); otherwise, it gives incorrect error messages for any function declared as returning a float value. The Apollo compiler may not compile Ghostscript correctly. If you get unexpected crashes at run time, use gcc. AT&T 7040 R3: If Ghostscript crashes on startup, recompile with -O0 in order to avoid triggering compiler bugs. Convex: Use unixansi.mak. Do not invoke optimization (-O1): there are compiler bugs that lead to incorrect code. Set CFLAGS to -no -fn -tm c1 DEC: See Alpha (above) or VAX (below). Also, you may get the following message (or a similar one) when compiling on a DECstation, due to a compiler bug: cfe: Fatal: _temp_19086.c: Segmentation violation If this happens, try compiling with the -oldc switch. DECStations with Ultrix: You may wish to set GS_LIB_DEFAULT=$(gsdatadir):/usr/lib/DPS/outline/decwin:$(gsdatadir)/fonts in the makefile to add the Display PostScript font directory to the font search path. You may need to use make CFLAGS="-Olimit 1000" to tell the optimizer to allocate extra table space. The Ultrix 4.4 C compiler has a bug that makes it compile gdevm1.c incorrectly. Insert the following line in the makefile rule for gdevm1.$(OBJ) (the body of the rule is empty in the standard distribution): $(CCC) -oldc gdevm1.c GNU make (any platform): GNU make 3.59 can't handle the final linking step in some cases; use the platform's standard make (e.g., /bin/make) if this happens. H-P RISC workstations: If you are using H-P's compiler, use the compiler flags -Ae +O3 (*not* -O) -DNOSYSTIME. You may also need -D_POSIX_SOURCE. In addition, if you get the error message Initializing... Unrecoverable error: typecheck in .registerencoding Operand stack: .notdef 0 when you start Ghostscript, you need to install the following patches to fix bugs in H-P's C compiler: PHSS_2199, PHSS_3015, PHSS_3537. If you are using gcc 2.5.8, use -O, not -O2; the latter generates incorrect code for at least one module (gsimage.c). Intergraph Clipper: Recommended settings are: XCFLAGS=-w -Q -DSYSV -D__SVR3 EXTRALIBS=-lbsd -lc_s CC=acc -knr PLATFORM=sysv_ Also, you will probably need to change the X11 driver specification from $(SHP)gsaddmod x11 -lib Xt X11 Xext to $(SHP)gsaddmod x11 -lib Xt_s X11_s Xext ISC Unix: For ISC Unix with gcc, an appropriate make invocation is: make XCFLAGS="-D__SVR3 -posix" LDFLAGS="-shlib -posix" \ EXTRALIBS="-linet -lnsl_s" If this doesn't work for you, try removing the -shlib. ISC Unix may also need one or more of the following in EXTRALIBS: -lpt, -lc_s. See also under "386 Unix" above. MIPS: There is apparently a bug in the MIPS C compiler which causes gxdither.c to compile incorrectly if optimization is enabled (-O). Until a work-around is found, do not use -O with the MIPS C compiler. NCR 3550: If you are using the NCR C Development Toolkit, you must use -O0 to avoid triggering compiler bugs. NeXTSTEP: Use unix-gcc.mak, but change the name of the compiler (CC=) from gcc to cc. For NeXTSTEP versions before 3.2, include -D_NEXT_SOURCE in CFLAGS, change the two occurrences of sys/time.h to ansi/time.h, and change <dirent.h> in gp_unifs.c to <sys/dirent.h>; for NeXTSTEP versions 3.2 and later, include -D_POSIX_SOURCE in CFLAGS, and do not make the other changes. You may also find it useful to add the following line to Fontmap: /Ohlfs /Courier ; If you are running the Pencom co-Xist X server, it installs the X headers and libraries in the default places, so you should change the definitions of XINCLUDE and XLIBDIRS in the makefile to empty strings. Pyramid MIServer-S: See AT&T 7040 R3. RS/6000: Many versions of the AIX C compiler have bugs that have prevented Ghostscript from compiling and linking properly. We believe that the current Ghostscript release works around these bugs, and that using the unix-cc.mak makefile with CC=cc should work. You must also edit the makefile (unixansi.mak or unix-cc.mak) to change INSTALL to /usr/ucb/install. (If -DSYSV produces a complaint about the functions index and rindex not being defined, try removing it.) If the xlc 1.2.1 optimizer runs out of memory, you may need to add -qmaxmem=4000 to CFLAGS. A user has reported that the AIX C compiler shipped with AIX 3.2.5 only compiles Ghostscript if invoked with c89 -D_POSIX_SOURCE and *without* -O. On the other hand, another user reported successful compilation using the unix-ansi.mak makefile and the following command line: make CC=c89 XCFLAGS="-DOSY_AIX -D_ALL_SOURCE -qnoro -qmaxmem=3000 -bfl" $* Apparently some (but not all) releases of the C library declare the hypot function: if the declaration in math_.h produces an error message, try removing it. Also, the IBM X11R3 server is known to be buggy: use the MIT X server if possible. SCO Unix/Xenix: The SCO Unix C compiler apparently can't handle the Pn macros in std.h. If you get strange compilation errors on SCO Unix, see if you can get a compiler fix from SCO. Meanwhile, to use gcc with SCO ODT, see gcc-head.mak for the appropriate switch settings. See also under "386 Unix" above. gcc 2.3.3 produces code that causes a core dump on machines that don't have hardware floating point, because of a bug in SCO's floating point emulator. Use a different compiler on these machines. If you aren't using the X11 driver, you need to add -lsocket to the linker command (near the end of the unix-*.mak file) in order to get the date/time functions linked in. If you want to use direct frame buffer addressing instead of X Windows, include the relevant frame buffer device(s) (ega.dev, vga.dev, etc.) and change gdevevga.c to gdevsco.c as indicated in devs.mak. Note: this does not work with SuperVGA displays, except for 800x600x16 mode. Note also: If the display looks "smeared", try recompiling gdevpcfb.c with -O0. Note also: if Ghostscript crashes, use the -q switch and/or redirect console output to a file. If your compiler accepts the -Xt and -Xa switches, use -Xt. Even though this causes the compiler to use incorrect rules for computing the result types of << and >>, -Xa enables "optimizations" that produce incorrect code. For SCO ODT 2.0, in addition to -D__SVR3 and -DSYSV, you need to specify -Dsco, -DUSG, and -DMALLOC_0_RETURNS_NULL. For SCO ODT, you need EXTRALIBS=-lX11 -lsocket -lmalloc, or maybe only -lsocket (depending on the version), and for SCO ODT 2.0, you also need to specify -lc_s. For SCO Xenix, you need EXTRALIBS=-lmalloc. For all SCO systems, set XINCLUDE= and XLIBDIRS=. Please also read the section on "System V Unix platforms" below. SGI: The SGI C compiler shipped with Irix 5.2 requires compiler options -cckr. Sun: The Sun unbundled C compiler (SC1.0) doesn't compile Ghostscript properly if the -fast option is selected: Ghostscript core-dumps in build_gs_font. Use -g, or use gcc. The Sun version of dbx often gives up with an error message when trying to load Ghostscript. If this happens, use gdb instead. (gdb is more reliable than dbx in other ways as well.) Solaris 2.2 may require setting EXTRALIBS=-lsocket. Solaris 2.n uses /usr/openwin/share/include for the X11 libraries rather than /usr/local/X/include. For Solaris 3.n, you will need to change the definition of INSTALL in the makefile from install -c to installbsd -c, since the Solaris version of 'install' requires install -c <directory> [-m <mode>] <file> rather than install [-c] [-m <mode>] <file> <directory> SVR4 Unix platforms: You may need to set EXTRALIBS=-lnsl. Do *not* change PLATFORM=unix_ to PLATFORM=sysv_. On SVR4 platforms that use dynamic library loading, you may need to add the following two lines to the makefile just before the final linking step (the line that says "$(SH) <ldt.tr"): LD_RUN_PATH=$(XLIBDIR); \ export LD_RUN_PATH; \ System V Unix platforms: If you are using a stock System V platform that lacks rename and gettimeofday, change PLATFORM=unix_ in the makefile to PLATFORM=sysv_. You will probably need to change the definition of INSTALL (near the beginning of the makefile) from install to /usr/ucb/install. VAX with [Open]VMS: DEC C V4.0 or later is required. Previous versions of the DEC C run-time library have bugs that prevent Ghostscript from working. VAX with Ultrix: The above information about DECStations with Ultrix may be applicable. ******** ******** How to build Ghostscript from source (VMS aka OpenVMS version) **** ******** The files VMS-CC.MAK, VMS-GCC.MAK, and VMS-DECC.MAK are OpenVMS DCL command files which build Ghostscript from scratch using, respectively, the VAX C compiler, CC, the Free Software Foundation's GNU C compiler, GCC, or the DEC C compiler, CC. Accordingly, you must have one of these compilers installed in order to build Ghostscript. (Other C compilers may work: CC and GCC are the only two compilers tested to date.) These command files build and store the Ghostscript library in the object library GS.OLB. If you have DECwindows (X11) installed on your system, the executable image GS.EXE will also be built. Some environments use the DWTLIBSHR library for providing the X Windows intrinsics, and some use the XTSHR library. XTSHR is newer, and is part of the DECwindows/Motif product. However, DEC is still distributing versions of VMS with DWTLIBSHR. If your environment uses XTSHR, replace DWTLIBSHR in the list of link libraries with XTSHR. Many versions of DEC's X server have bugs that produce broad bands of color where dither patterns should appear, or characters displayed white on top of black rectangles or not displayed at all. If this happens, please consult the X Windows section of the use.doc file to find out how to work around these bugs using X resources; also report the problem to DEC, or whoever supplied your X server. You may also wish to turn off the use of a backing pixmap with Ghostscript, either to work around X server memory limitations or bugs, or to obtain faster displaying at the expense of no redrawing when a Ghostscript window is restored from an icon or exposed after being occluded by another window. Again, use.doc contains information on how to do this. For OpenVMS VAX platforms with VAX C, issue the DCL command $ @VMS-CC.MAK to build Ghostscript. For OpenVMS platforms with GNU C (either AXP or VAX), issue the DCL command $ @VMS-GCC.MAK to build Ghostscript. For OpenVMS platforms with DEC C (either AXP or VAX), issue the DCL command $ @VMS-DECC.MAK to build Ghostscript. The option "DEBUG" may be specified with either command file in order to build a debuggable Ghostscript configuration; e.g., $ @VMS-CC.MAK DEBUG In order to specify switches and file names when invoking the interpreter, define GS as a foreign command: $ GS == "$disk:[directory]GS.EXE" where "disk" and "directory" specify the disk and directory where Ghostscript is located. For instance, $ GS == "$DUA1:[GHOSTSCRIPT]GS.EXE" To allow the interpreter to be run from any directory, define the logical GS_LIB which points to the Ghostscript directory $ DEFINE GS_LIB disk:[directory] This allows Ghostscript to locate its initialization files stored in the Ghostscript directory -- see use.doc for further details. Finally, to invoke the interpreter, merely type GS. Although DCL normally converts unquoted parameters to upper case, C programs receive their parameters in lower case. That is, the command $ GS -Isys$login: passes the switch "-isys$login" to the interpreter. To preserve the case of switches, enclose them in double quotes; e.g., $ GS "-Isys$login:" If you add compiled fonts to your system as described in the fonts.doc file, then add the font source file names to MODULES.LIS, add "ccfonts.dev" to the FEATURE_DEVS symbol in VMS-CC.MAK, VMS-GCC.MAK, or VMS-DECC.MAK, $ FEATURE_DEVS = "level2.dev ccfonts.dev" and then specify the font names with the ccfonts1 symbol $ ccfonts1 = "Courier Courier_Oblique Courier_Bold Courier_BoldOblique" If the line gets too long, add another line of the same form, e.g., $ ccfonts1 = "Courier Courier_Oblique Courier_Bold Courier_BoldOblique" $ ccfonts2 = "Times_Roman Times_Italic Times_Bold Times_BoldItalic" ******** ******** A guide to the files ******** ******** General ------- There are very few machine dependencies in Ghostscript. A few of the .c files are machine-specific. These have names of the form gp_<platform>.c specifically gp_dosfb.c (MS-DOS) gp_dosfs.c (MS-DOS and MS Windows) gp_itbc.c (MS-DOS, Borland compilers) gp_iwatc.c (MS-DOS, Watcom or Microsoft compiler) gp_msdos.c (MS-DOS and MS Windows) gp_ntfs.c (MS-Windows Win32s and Windows NT) gp_os2.c (OS/2) gp_os9.c (OS-9) gp_unifs.c (Unix or OS-9) gp_unix.c (Unix) gp_sysv.c (System V Unix) gp_vms.c (VMS) gp_win32.c (MS-Windows Win32s and Windows NT) There are also some machine-specific conditionals in files with names <something>_.h. If you are going to extend Ghostscript to new machines or operating systems, you should check the *_.h files for ifdef's on things other than DEBUG, and you should probably count on making a new makefile and a new gp_ file. Library ------- Files beginning with gs, gx, or gz (both .c and .h), other than gs.c and gsmain.c, are the Ghostscript library. Files beginning with gdev are device drivers or related code, also part of the library. Other files beginning with g are library files that don't fall neatly into either the kernel or the driver category. Interpreter ----------- gs.c is the main program for the interactive language interpreter; gsmain.c is the top level of initialization code. If you configure Ghostscript as a server rather than an interactive program, you will use gsmain.c but not gs.c. Files named z*.c are Ghostscript operator files. The names of the files generally follow the section headings of the operator summary in section 6.2 of the PostScript manual. Files named i*.c, and *.h other than g*.h, are the rest of the interpreter. See the makefile for a little more information on how the files are divided functionally. Files named s*.c are a flexible stream package, including the Level 2 PostScript 'filters' supported by Ghostscript.