Ghostscript compiling problem

[Bart Devos]

Hi list,
In order to install ImageMagick i need to install Ghostscript to get pdf and eps functionality. Ghostscript must be installed as a shared library. So, first i did a ./configure --without-x (i tried --without-x --enable-shared=rewrite as well) and then 'make so'. This command goes on for nearly 40 min. (yes, i still work on a 266 G3...) and then i get:
/usr/bin/ld: unknown flag: -soname
make[1]: *** [bin/../sobin/libgs.so.7.05] Error 1
make: *** [so] Error 2

Apparently GNU make doesn't support 'so'. I don't find it in the manual, but the .macos-fw.mak file states explicitely:
# Useful make commands:
# make framework make ghostscript as a MacOS X framework
# make so make ghostscript as a shared object
# make sodebug make debug ghostscript as a shared object
# make soinstall install shared object ghostscript
# make soclean remove build files

I tried the macos*.mak files and got the same result.
Has anyone an idea how i could make a shared lib of Ghostscript?
Thanks in advance!

 

[cabbage]

I'm having problems with the Ghostscript extension on OS9. I'm trying to use it to view PDF's and EPS's in iView MediaPro but haven't had any luck.

 

[howardm4]

certainly looks like the Makefile 'so' target
is not correct. There is no -soname
option for the compiler suite.

You'd have to look closer (man dyld) and
see what it needed. I'm not on an OSX
machine rihgt now so I can't give you the
answer.

 

[ladavacm]

frameworks are (sort of) relocatable shared libraries, as in

localhost% file Tk
Tk: Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc
localhost% pwd
/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/Current
localhost%

You should put results somewhere in /Library

However, when building ImageMagick, you will have to use -framework GS rather than using -I and -L, and -f GS rather than -lgs

That all assumes that framework target actually work; I'm using Aladdin GS which does not have this target.