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From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: MS-DOS/djgpp/ghostscript
Date:	30 Aug 2004 06:00:29 GMT
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Vikram Sethi <vikram AT world DOT std DOT com> wrote:

> Currently attempting to compile Ghostscript 5.50 

Why such an ancient version of it?  GNU gs is at version 8.something
by now, IIRC.

> under MS-DOS 6.22 using djgpp (in order to add a printer driver).
> There are hints in the ghostscript documentation that this should be
> possible and that the makefile dvx-gcc.mak should be used.

I suspect you interpreted those hints incorrectly.  The name suggests
this makefile would be for DesqView/X, the ancient (now freely
available) version of X11 for the DesqView multitasker which supported
DJGPP as its system compiler.  If you're running on normal DOS with DV,
you probably don't want this makefile.

I second the suggestion made by somebody else in this thread: use the
./configure script method (after installing the required set of
Tools).  Or maybe just get the last ghostscript binary/source version
available for DJGPP, and start from that, instead of the mainline
source tarball.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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