Short: Ghostscript3.53 Amiga specific sources Author: GS(Aladdin)/Amiga(Olaf Barthel)/Port(me) Uploader: Joop.vandeWege@Medew.ENTO.WAU.NL Type: gfx/show This is the Amiga port of Ghostscript3.53 containing the Amiga specific sources, if you want to recompile GS then you'll have to get 'gs353src.lha' and 'gs353jpeg6.lha' too. For more details see below. Ghostscript is a Postscript interpreter with support for Level 2 PS and PDF. This release includes *only* the Amiga display driver and the fileformat PNG. This is only a *small* part of the available device drivers and is a trade off between size and usability. The source is available from the same place you got the binary (is it?) so you can recompile to fit it to your needs. Comments/Suggestions/Bugs to: Joop.vandeWege@medew.ento.wau.nl Please use a Subject field with the name 'GS353' in it. Please direct all mail to me except when you're 100% sure it is a GS problem then you can use the Aladdin email address. Joop van de Wege Recompiling GS: Steps needed to be done to recompile GS from scratch using GCC2.63/2.70: Get gs353src.lha Get gs353amiga.lha Get gs353jpeg6.lha Get gs353zlib.lha Get gs353png.lha Unpack gs353src to HD, a directory 'gs3.53' will be created. Unpack *in* this directory: - gs353amiga.lha, overwriting some files. This is OK gs353amiga.lha contains: - gdevamiga.c, the amiga device driver from Olaf Barthel - gdevpipe.c, patched for use with Libnix - gdevpng.c, bugfixed PNG device driver - geninit.c, bugfixed geninit - gp_amiga.c, platform dependant stuff for the Amiga - gsmisc.c, fixed wrong external declaration - makefile, how to recreate GS (this distribution rebuilds in the source directory, the upcoming ADE (Fred Fish) one will have a configure script) - gs353jpeg6 which creates the 'jpeg-6' directory - gs353zlib which creates the 'zlib' directory - gs353png which creates the 'pnglib' directory The last two archives are not needed when you don't intend to rebuild GS with PNG support. Edit the makefile and activate/deactivate the devices you want or adjust the paths. Read the comments in the makefile for directions. cd to drive:gs3.53 and type 'make' followed by 'make install' If you haven't forgotten to set the stack to a reasonable amount (~50K), you can sit back and have a cup of coffee. On my A3000 it takes about 2.5h to compile with the current device driver set and the file 'gdevamiga.c' needs about 7-8Mb when -O2 is on. It needs less if you don't optimize :) Make itself takes another 2Mb so in case of problems just compile gdevamiga.c on its own and let make resume after that. GCC2.7.0 (Aminet) works with VMM3.3 (on Aminet too). ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 113112 25425 77.5% 18-Jan-96 18:32:12 gdevamiga.c 2828 1118 60.4% 18-Jan-96 18:32:20 gdevpipe.c 8004 2650 66.8% 19-Jan-96 22:38:06 gdevpng.c 6076 2258 62.8% 18-Jan-96 18:33:26 geninit.c 13333 4751 64.3% 18-Jan-96 18:33:40 gp_amiga.c 15828 6014 62.0% 18-Jan-96 18:33:48 gsmisc.c 158387 44954 71.6% 20-Jan-96 20:18:34 makefile 5757 2740 52.4% 21-Jan-96 21:44:14 README -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 323325 89910 72.1% 23-Jan-96 03:11:38 8 files