Issue downloading appropriate DLLs for CDRTools

Issue downloading appropriate DLLs for CDRTools

[Dr. Torsten Kühn]

Dear Corinna, Dear Christopher, Dear Cygwin mailing list!

A couple of days ago, I had serious problems finding the appropriate
DLLs for a recent Win32-port of Jörg Schillings famous CDRTools.
The port done by Thomas Plank available at
http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank/cdrtools-3.01a06-win32-bin.zip
is based on Cygwin.

I intended to use CDRTools/ CDRecord as my only Cygwin-application
(perhaps more one day), thus no current need install the entire Cygwin
distribution. Alas, Thomas' package lacks a comprehensive set of DLLs
required to run CDRecord standalone (the port has obviously been
developed within a Cygwin environment, so the author could not track
which DLLs exactly are required to run his binaries).

A 5-hour-lasting-Odyssey revealed that, apart from CYGWIN1.DLL v1.7.9,
libraries from the following packages are necessary to run CDRTools:
http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/cygwin/release/gcc4/libgcc1/libgcc1-4.5.3-3.
tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.cygwin.com///pub/cygwinports/release/libiconv/libiconv2/libiconv2-1.
12-1.tar.bz2
http://cygwin.cybermirror.org/release/gettext/libintl8/libintl8-0.18.1.1-2.tar.bz2

I mention the full URLs to indicate the difficulties I had in finding the
appropriate code:
while the "Search Packages"-function ( http://cygwin.com/packages/ ) is
great as it indicates the package name for a requested DLL, the search
hits lack links (URLs) to appropriate locations on http://cygwin.com/ !

Only a few (and sometimes wrong) packages in handmade directory listings
of ftp.cygwin.com and ftp.cygwinports.com were found (is there a true
"ls-lR.gz" directory listing of more than 59 bytes, which would greatly
facilitate further search for packages?).

Apparently, the current download system relies on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
(562 KB, as of 2011/11/04). Alas, this tool cannot be used with my
systems, as the dial-in host only runs LX-executables, and the Win32-
computer intended to run CDRTools cannot access the internet via Squid
neither, due to an unsupported onboard ethernet chip.

Anyway, I finally succeeded, Cdrecord runs nice my WinNT4SP6a system
(already burned first DVDs) - so it was probably worth it to stay up one
night searching 200 kb of Cygwin packages (easier pathways welcome:).
Thus, great thanks for your development!
(The issue with inconsistent libraries in Thomas Plank's distribution has
been adressed to the author - unfortunately, his server bounces my mail).

All the best & regards
Torsten Kühn


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Re: Issue downloading appropriate DLLs for CDRTools

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:43:42PM +0100, Dr. Torsten K?hn wrote:
>Dear Corinna, Dear Christopher, Dear Cygwin mailing list!

If anyone responds to this please excise the private email messages when
doing so.  I don't want this cluttering my inbox and I know that
Corinna doesn't either.

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Re: Issue downloading appropriate DLLs for CDRTools

[Jeremy Bopp]

On 11/9/2011 15:43, Dr. Torsten Kühn wrote:
> A couple of days ago, I had serious problems finding the appropriate
> DLLs for a recent Win32-port of Jörg Schillings famous CDRTools.
> The port done by Thomas Plank available at
> http://www.student.tugraz.at/thomas.plank/cdrtools-3.01a06-win32-bin.zip
> is based on Cygwin.

Cygwin includes the wodim package which comes from cdrkit which itself 
is a fork of cdrtools.  Install wodim and give it a try.  It has always 
worked great for me.

> I intended to use CDRTools/ CDRecord as my only Cygwin-application
> (perhaps more one day), thus no current need install the entire Cygwin
> distribution.

A minimal Cygwin installation isn't that large, so it would be better to 
go ahead and install one and add in the package you need.  You can 
assemble things by hand if you like, but you'll be spending your own 
time to deal with it as you discovered.

 > Alas, Thomas' package lacks a comprehensive set of DLLs
> required to run CDRecord standalone (the port has obviously been
> developed within a Cygwin environment, so the author could not track
> which DLLs exactly are required to run his binaries).

Thomas is likely aware of the licensing issues surrounding including the 
Cygwin DLL and other supporting DLLs in his archive.  While the terms 
aren't necessarily onerous, they may be more of a headache to comply 
with than Thomas wants to bother.

> Apparently, the current download system relies on http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
> (562 KB, as of 2011/11/04). Alas, this tool cannot be used with my
> systems, as the dial-in host only runs LX-executables, and the Win32-
> computer intended to run CDRTools cannot access the internet via Squid
> neither, due to an unsupported onboard ethernet chip.

Setup.exe supports installing from a pre-downloaded set of package 
files.  You can perform an Internet-based installation on a machine with 
a functional Internet connection to get all the packages you'll want to 
install and then copy the directory setup.exe creates to hold the 
downloaded package files onto a DVD along with setup.exe itself.  You 
should then be able to run setup.exe from that DVD and tell it to use 
the package files already on the DVD for installation.

-Jeremy

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