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stp printing with FreeBSD

The Ghostcsript6 Port of FreeBSD does not include the stp driver, therefore it's necesseray to do some changes by hand :)

First of all, the Ghostscript6 Ports has to be downloaded, extracted and patching must be done.

        cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6
        make patch

After this, download print-4.0b2 (or another version, i did it with this one) from

http://download.sourceforge.net/gimp-print/print-4.0b2.tar.gz

Place the file into the workdir of the ghostscript6 port and unzip it:

        cp print-4.0b2.tar.gz /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01
        cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6/work/gs6.01
        tar xzf print-4.0b2.tar.gz

Follow the directions as described in "Ghost/README": First, copy all *.c and *.h files into the ghostscript src directory.

        cd print-4.0b2/Ghost
        cp *.c ../../src/
        cp *.h ../../src/

Edit "contrib.mak" in the src directory of ghosts cript (where the *.c and
*.h files where copied to in the previous step). Add the contents of the file "contrib.mak.addon" in the "print-4.0b2/Ghost" directory at the end of the "contrib.mak" file.
The next step is to add "$(DD)stp.dev to the line "DEVICE_DEVS6=" in "unix-gcc.mak".

After all these changes have been made, do a

cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript6 ; make install

All should compile fine, and after that you have ghostscript6 with the stp driver compiled in. Run "gs -h" to be absolutely sure :)

Don't forget to update or adjust your filters! See print-4.0b2/Ghost/README for further details and examples.

All this should work with NetBSD and OpenBSD as well, but i didn't test it anyway. Good luck and have fun :)

Please note that the current Ghostscript 6 license (Aladdin Free Public License) is not compatible with the GPL, and thus you cannot distribute the result. However, you may apply this procedure for your own use.