Re: ps2raster problem (win x64 binaries)

Nice. It was due to those speed issues that I dropped cygwin in favor of 
msys/mingw and, as much as I can, always build 'natively'.

Joaquim

> Thanks Joaquim!
> I was able to get the 64bit windows binary of ps2raster to use my 
> cygwin gs using the -G option. I then downloaded an installed 
> ghostscript for win64 using the installer. This also worked, and I was 
> pleasantly surprised to find out that the ghostscript windows 64 
> version was in some cases more than 4x faster than the cygwin gs.exe.
> So while it would be nice if GMT would compile without errors in 
> cygwin64, it appears that the binaries that are provided by the GMT 
> team are significantly faster than what cygwin can make on its own.
> So, thanks!
> Cheers,
> -Scott
>
>
> On 1/9/2014 12:42 PM, Joaquim Luis wrote:
>> On 09-01-2014 16:53, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
>>> It may indeed be ghostscript problem, but I think I may need some 
>>> guidance. I use cygwin64, which comes with ghostscript (gs is in the 
>>> search path for window and cygwin), but even if I make these same 
>>> two commands in a windows cmd window, it still hangs.
>>> Yes, I have installed the gmt binaries using the installers at
>>> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt4/gmt/gmt_windows_SOEST.html
>>> Note that psbasemap and psxy, and the other gmt commands seem to 
>>> work fine. Just ps2raster is having the issues.
>>>
>>
>>> Do the gmt windows binaries require a separate installation of 
>>> ghostscript for windows? I thought the windows install had 
>>> everything built in.
>>> Thanks for the help
>>
>> Normally yes. That's what I meant when asked if you had used the 
>> installer (the ghostscript installer, not the GMT one)
>> As I said, on Win ps2raster finds ghostscript via registry, but one 
>> can use option -G to override. Don't know what will happen if you 
>> force usage of cygwin gs but nothing like trying.
>>
>> Joaquim
>>
>>> -Scott
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/9/2014 6:55 AM, Joaquim Luis wrote:
>>>> Don't know. It works fine here.
>>>> When those problems happen it is often a ghostscript blame. Are you 
>>>> using an old version? Is it installed 'normally' on Windows (with 
>>>> the installer)?
>>>> ps2raster searches the ghostscript version on Win registry.
>>>>
>>>> Joaquim
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>> I recently downloaded and installed the gmt 4.5.11 binaries for 
>>>>> 64bit windows (I run win 7 x64). The binaries are much faster than 
>>>>> my old cygwin compiled versions (thanks!), but ps2raster seems to 
>>>>> have a problem. Whenever I call ps2raster, it hangs indefinitely. 
>>>>> For example see the simple commands below
>>>>>
>>>>> psbasemap -R0/100/-3.5/3.5 -JX7.0i/4.0i -Bf5a10:"Time 
>>>>> (hrs)":/f0.5a1:"Temperature (C)":WSen -P > file.ps
>>>>> ps2raster file.ps -Tf
>>>>>
>>>>> The postscript file opens with gs just fine, but ps2raster just 
>>>>> hangs at 100% CPU usage. I saw that there was an issue with the 
>>>>> mac version of ps2raster. Is there is similar problem with the 
>>>>> windows binaries? Maybe I have made a mistake in my syntax? This 
>>>>> syntax used to work in gmt 4.5.8 though. So far as I can tell, the 
>>>>> rest of the binaries work fine.
>>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> -Scott
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