Re: [gs-devel] Building on Windows 7 64-bit.

[Chris Liddell]

On 08/04/14 15:27, Didier Link wrote:
> Le 08/04/2014 15:58, Bob Eby a écrit :
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> > I've been testing with AGPL Ghostscript and thought I'd give the GNU GPL
> > version a try.  Unfortunately I'm having trouble building verison 9.06
> > successfully on Windows 7 64-bit.
>
> Why do you use an old version of AGPL Ghostscript, the last one is 9.14 ?
>
> > I notice a change in the ChangeLog from 2007:
> >
> > 2007-05-08 Didier Link <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>>
> >      * src/version.mak: removed because is functionnalities was transfered
> >
> > And yet many files (particularly windows mak files) seem to be riddled
> > with references to it.
>
> I have introduced the content of version.mak in the configure script
> directly and tested the GNU plateform only for compiling the GNU
> version. I've certainly broken the others plateforms by not removing the
> "include version.mak" from all others mak files. If you find the good
> line in the mak file for your build and simply remove the include maybe
> you're lucky and the build can continue and finish ? ;)

I can't help but feel that's a pointless change, and guaranteed to break 
anything that doesn't use configure..... also seems like making extra 
work for yourself.

Chris