Re: gswin32 with fax support

You're right, Ken. I was able to build it without much trouble.  But I still
have one problem.  I need to build a version for XP/Windows Server 2003.  If
Ghostscript was a C++ project I could do this by setting the "Platform
Toolset" (as seen here
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2012/10/08/windows-xp-targeting-with
-c-in-visual-studio-2012/ ).  But Ghostscript is apparently an nmake project
and the "Platform Toolset" option is nowhere to be found.  So I'm at a loss
for how to build it for Windows XP.

Thanks for the help,
Nick



-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Sharp <[email protected]> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 11:30 AM
To: Nick <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [gs-devel] gswin32 with fax support

At 10:07 05/06/2018 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for confirming what I suspected, Ken.  I was just hoping maybe 
>someone had done this build already.  But figured it was a long shot.  
>I built ghostscript once on another system years ago (VOS) and it took 
>some doing, so not looking forward to trying this on windows.

Building recent versions of Ghostscript is easy, assuming you are using
Visual Studio. Open the visual Studio project, allow VS to upgrade it to the
version you are using.

There are projects for Ghosscript, GhostXPS and GhostPCL, as well as the
language switching build GhostPDL which is temporarily non-functional.

So select the project you want (Ghostscript), select Release or debug and
32 or 64 bits, and then choose build.

That should be it.

If you want to build with something other than Visual Studio then its going
to be more tricky.

Also, you want to build in the dfaxhigh device, and that is *not* built as
standard on Windows, nor is it built as one of the contributed devices, so
I'm unsure how to even get it included in the build at all. Its certainly
going to mean altering a makefile.


                 Ken