Building cdrkit for Windows

cdrkit is another CD/DVD burning tool that was spun off from the cdrtools project. Some say cdrkit is inferior to cdrtools, but I haven't found a problem with cdrkit yet. Although I prefer cdrtools to cdrkit, I'd like to give cdrkit a try. To build cdrkit with MinGW, I had to compile some libraries first.

1. zlib
   

   First, I compiled zlib:

   
   

   tar xzvf zlib-1.2.7.tar.gz
   cd zlib-1.2.7
   make -f win32/Makefile.gcc
   cp -iv zlib1.dll /mingw/bin
   cp -iv zconf.h zlib.h /mingw/include
   cp -iv libz.a /mingw/lib
   cp -iv libz.dll.a /mingw/lib

   
   
   
2. POSIX threads for Win32
   

   New genisoimage seems to use pthread for making checksums. I compiled pthread like this:

   
   

   make clean GC
   cp -iv pthreadGC2.dll /mingw/bin
   cp -iv pthread.h semaphore.h sched.h /mingw/include/
   cp -iv libpthreadGC2.a /mingw/lib
   cp -iv libpthreadGC2.a /mingw/lib/libpthread.a

   
   
   
3. PCRE
   
   

   Then, I compile PCRE:

   
   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-pcre16 --enable-unicode-properties
   make
   make install
   cp /mingw/include/pcreposix.h /mingw/include/regex.h
   cp /mingw/lib/libpcreposix.a /mingw/lib/libregex.a
   cp /mingw/lib/libpcreposix.dll.a /mingw/lib/libregex.dll.a

   
   
   
4. libmagic
   
   

   I built the open-source file command. I configured it like this:

   
   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw

   
   
   

   Then, I added the following lines to config.h:

   
   
   

   #define WIN32 1
   #define MAGIC "magic"

   
   
   

   Compile libmagic:

   
   
   

   make && make install

   
   
   

   I got an error trying to build file.exe, so I modified src/Makefile:

   
   

   file_LDADD = libmagic.la /mingw/lib/libpcreposix.dll.a

   
   
   
5. libiconv
   
   

   I built libiconv like this:

   
   

   ./configure --prefix=/mingw
   make
   make install

   
   
   
6. CMake
   
   

   Then, I built CMake.

   
   

   ./bootstrap --prefix=/mingw
   make
   make install

   
   
   
7. cdrkit
   

   I unpacked the cdrkit source and applied the patch that I found at the mailing list. Here are the modified patches of mine.

   
   
   
   • cdrkit-1.1.9-mingw.patch
     
   • cdrkit-1.1.11-mingw.patch
     
   
   
   

   I used the command below to applied the patch.

   
   
   

   patch -p1 -l < ../cdrkit-1.1.9-mingw.patch

   
   
   

   Then, I compiled cdrkit:

   
   
   

   cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles"
   make

   
   

   After successful build, I copied the executable files (*.exe) to my folder.

   
   

Issues and Fixes

1. 
   

   I got an error linking genisoimage. I edited genisoimage/CMakeLists.txt to resolve the issue:

   
   
   

   IF(USE_MAGIC)
    ADD_DEFINITIONS(-DUSE_MAGIC)
    LIST(APPEND EXTRA_LIBS "shlwapi")
    SET(MAGICLIBS magic)
   ENDIF(USE_MAGIC)

   
   
   

2. I got errors compiling sha256.* and sha512.*. I made the following changes.

   
   
   
   • I removed all lines that read #include <endian.h>.
     
   • Assume the target machine is little endian.
     
   • change all occurrences of __THROW to __attribute__ ((__nothrow__)).
   
   
   

3. The code in genisoimage/checksum.c gave me errors linking with pthread-w32. To fix it, I replaced a->thread with (a->thread).p.

   
   
   

4. I found that genisoimage and readom still used /dev/null. I changed it to NUL in genisoimage.c and readom.c.

   
   
   

Download my cdrkit Build

Here's my cdrkit build for Windows.

• cdrkit-1.1.9-win32.zip
  
• cdrkit-1.1.11-mingw.zip
  

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