Release Notes -- GNU Ghostscript for Cygwin
Version 7.05, Release 1 (7.05-1)
(6 July, 2002)

The Cygwin version of GNU Ghostscript now supports both a native Win32
version and a X11 version for Cygwin XFree86.  A single source package
is used to build both versions.  Three separate packages are used:

  * A base package, ghostscript-base, which contains the support
    files necessary for both the native and X11 versions, as well
    as the manual pages and documentation.

  * A native package, ghostscript, which contains the native version
    of Ghostscript (gs.exe), along with the corresponding scripts.

  * An X11 package, ghostscript-x11, which contains the X11 version
    of Ghostscript (gs.exe) and scripts.

Both binary versions use the libpng and zlib shared libraries.

REQUIREMENTS:
------------

The libraries and headers for the libpng and zlib shared libraries
should be installed before using Ghostscript.  The setup program
should take care of this for you.  At a minimum, you should install
the ghostscript-base package, and either ghostscript or ghostscript-x11.
You can also install all three packages if you'd like the choice of
using either binary version.

Due to very specific requirements Ghostscript has relating to
Postscript's JPEG support, the JPEG shared library cannot be
used, and must be statically linked instead.  The source for
the JPEG library is included in the source package, ready to
build with Ghostscript.

BUILDING:
--------
You'll need to fetch the source archive, ghostscript-7.05-1-src.tar.bz2,
from a Cygwin mirror site.  At a minimum, you must have all the tools
needed to build Cygwin programs, i.e. make, gcc, and binutils.  In
addition, the zlib and libpng shared libraries and header files must be
included in your Cygwin installation.

You'll also need to grab the following font compressed tar files:

    ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/gnu/fonts:
      gnu-gs-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz  (required)
      gnu-gs-fonts-other-6.0.tar.gz  (optional, recommended)

Place the font compressed tar files in /tmp; after building the packages,
these files can be deleted.

Finally, to build the packages, run the cyg-pkg script; it will build all
three packages for you and leave them in the directory /tmp/inst-gs.

The Cygwin patches are in CYGWIN-PATCHES, along with this file.

--
Dario Alcocer -- Cygwin Ghostscript Maintainer
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com
