[Debburn-devel] MinGW port
Pavel Koshevoy
pavel at aragog.com
Sun Jul 5 14:59:37 UTC 2009
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the reason for spending time on outdated and illegal software?
> The people behind the "cdrkit" fork do not care about portability and introduced
> dozens of related bugs.
>
> The source "cdrkit" is based on is extremely outdated (5+ years). You will see
> many bugs that have been fixed long ago and you will miss many new features.....
>
> The original software at:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/
>
> was ported to mingw some time ago. It should not be a big deal to keep mingw
> support up to date and the original software of course cares about portabilty.
>
>
>
> Jörg
>
>
Hi Jörg,
Perhaps you are confusing Cygwin with MinGW? smake and cdrtools both worked on Cygwin, but not MinGW/MSYS.
Actually, I have started out trying to get cdrtools to work on MinGW. I spent some time doing so. I found a 5 year old MinGW patch for cdrtools here -- http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/tools/win32/cdrtools-2.01-bootcd.ru-src.diff
The stock cdrtools-2.01.01a60 did not compile on MinGW. Neither did smake. After porting the outdated patch to a60 cdrecord still didn't work (it burned me a coaster).
I gave up and tried porting cdrkit instead. It was fairly easy to make it work. It used cmake instead of smake for build configuration, so it was a big plus for cdrkit portability.
Pavel.
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