Re: [gentoo-user] Verification of audio CD copy?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I could build a mini-Gentoo environment in Cygwin and take
> advantage of portage and emerge to get cdrtools then this might work
> for me. I don't have the time or interest to become a real Cygwin-er.

We're definitely getting off-topic for Gentoo now so if you have any
more Cygwin-related questions you can feel free to email me off-list
:) Cygwin is pretty simple. Just download setup.exe and run it, point
it to a place where you want it to download and install, select the
packages you want (such as normal tools like wget, and dev tools like
gcc and anything else normally needed to compile programs -- it'll
automatically select dependencies when you choose the main program),
then click the icon to get a bash prompt and pretend you're in *nix.
You now have the advantage of the familiar shell and familiar tools
when you're in Windows. It is basically self-contained and I don't
think it does anything to your computer other than when you explicitly
run it. In the future run setup.exe and just keep clicking "next" and
it'll download and install any updates for your installed packages.
I've compiled big packages in Cygwin such as MySQL, wxWindows and Qt4
and they worked fine.

For fun I will try to insall cdrtools in cygwin now:

"make" fails, so the readme suggests using smake instead, so I try
that. First download, compile and install smake:

1. wget ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/smake/alpha/smake-1.2a41.tar.gz
2. tar zxvf smake-1.2a41.tar.gz
3. cd smake-1.2
4. make
5. make install

That works. By default on my system it installs everything to /opt/schily/

Then, same for cdrtools
1. wget ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ALPHA/cdrecord-beta.tar.gz
2. tar zxvf cdrtools-beta.tar.gz
3. cd cdrtools-2.01.01
4. /opt/schily/bin/smake.exe
5. /opt/schily/bin/smake.exe install

done... now cdrtools programs are in /opt/schily/bin/ (with .exe
extension) and appear to work for me.