Compiling libgs.a under MS Windows

[Florent Teichteil]

Hi,

I'd like to port some Unix libraries, that depend on libgs.a, on MS
Windows. So, I ran ghostscript's configure script under MSYS with
MinGW's compiler with the options "--disable-shared --enable-static".
Configuration runs fine, but the build process returns many errors in
various files.

Therefore, I am wondering how I could build libgs as a static library
under MS Windows. Notice that I don't have MSVC++ or some equivalent
proprietary tools. I mean, it would be great to be able to build
ghostscript on MS Windows with only free tools, but I am not sure it
is even possible, isn't it?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Florent

ps : I tried fist to cross-compile ghostscript from Unix, but it is
even harder because configuration executables like echogs are built
for the target platform, not for the build platform (which is perhaps
- at least in my mind - a bug in autoconf files)