Shipping Ghostscript on Laravel Cloud

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I ran into this while working on a project that needed to merge and compress PDFs on Laravel Cloud. I assumed I’d be able to install Ghostscript during the build somehow. Nope.

Laravel Cloud doesn’t ship system binaries like Ghostscript, and unlike FFmpeg there isn’t an official static arm64 build you can just grab. So I ended up compiling it, committing it to the repo, and shipping it with the app.

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Shipping Ghostscript on Laravel Cloud