On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@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.
