[Debburn-devel] MinGW port

[Pavel Koshevoy]

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 what is the reason for spending time on outdated and illegal software?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 The source "cdrkit" is based on is extremely outdated (5+ years).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  After porting the outdated patch to a60 cdrecord still didn't work (it burned me a coaster).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.