Building ghostscript as a shared object on Unix platforms
 

Hi,

I am trying to build ghostscript on Unix platforms (GNU/Linux, AIX, HPUX, Solaris, Irix).

I have succeeded in building the executable/binary of ghostscript on Linux, AIX and Solaris.

The problem is that i want to build ghostscript as a shared object which uses dynamic library libgs.so.

While i was able to build the library (libgs.so) on GNU/Linux using the makefile (unix-gcc.mak) given in ghostscript-version/src directory, i faced difficulties while doing the same on AIX and other platforms.

The problem is that i want to use the native compilers on the other unix systems and not gcc.

The help given on the internet stated that to build ghostscript as a shared object on Unix, u can use unix-gcc.mak, but nothing is given on how to build ghostscript as a shared object using native compiler.

Could somebody help me ???

I also tried building ghostscript on AIX using gcc, but faced some errors.