29 November 2011

Cdrtools mingw binary

This is 32-bit cdrtools binary package, probably best known in Windows world for its mkisofs, the most widely used free ISO mastering software. Although its popularity in Linux world a bit declining due to license issue in version 3, that doesn't seems affect most of Windows users anyway : )

Note that I only tried mkisofs since its cdrecord a bit weirdo to my liking it maybe working too, I would burn the ISO using alcohol or Windows' built-in burning. The binary is statically linked a.k.a standalone executables so you can pick only what you need. And don't given up to its --help, it does takes time to understand all those command options : ) just be patient.

Binary complete package (including devel files and manual and separate patch)
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If you want the Unix way of cdrtools go to http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank
If you want the Windows way look no further than http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net

Brief instructions to build from sources

Extract using WinRAR (or anything that understand symlinks) or just use tar command line

apply patch

To compile type:
make all
*just ignore the spurious moans and warnings during compile, if you know what I mean :))

4 comments:

  1. Please Update to cdrtools 3.01a08

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  2. Tried it with cdrtfe, however the mkisofs -print-size command does not work which is needed by cdrtfe.

    Error message:
    mkisofs: No such file or directory. Unable to open /dev/null

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    1. cdrtfe use posix emulated version (its mkisofs need cygwin dll). Things like /dev/null or /cygdrive is not used or non-existent in native version. Please read "--help" or the readme file (in the full package download)

      in short, you need to override the full command sent by cdrtfe.

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