Cross Compiling ghostscript for android, what host should I use?

Question

Hi Guys I am using this tutorial to build ghostscript-9.19 to be able to use in my android application to convert eps document to pdf. It fails while configure. Here are the log

Answer 1

Cross compiling Ghostscript is pretty involved, partly because the Ghostscript build relies on building and running interim tools (genarch, genconf, mkromfs and echogs) which, obviously, must be built with the native compiler, rather than the cross compiler.

I think the problem you are seeing is because the call to the libtiff configure doesn't pass on the required options.

You may be better served grabbing, and tweaking the two files (a makefile and a header) from this commit: Makefile for Android MuPDF libgs.so

and tweaking it to match your requirements.

There is a basic guide of what to do for cross compiling at the bottom of this page: Ghostscript FAQ

I have a "project" to improve support for cross compiling, but it is slow going at the moment.