[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We would like to burn DVDs from Cygwin. Unfortunately, we can't build > dvd+rw-tools in Cygwin. The file growisofs.c contains lots of > platform-specific stuff, but no stuff for Windows/Cygwin. The > platform-specific code block for Linux isn't terribly large, but it's > quite low-level and depends on header files not available in Cygwin. > > Has anyone out there tried this?
Not yet, apparently. > Is this an impossible task? No. Win NT/2k/XP/2k3 have an interface to talk to SCSI devices. Implementing this for dvd+rw-tools shouldn't be that hard. A little more work would be necessary to support Win 95/98/ME, because they don't support the same API for SCSI devices. You'd need to use ASPI. > Cdrtools compiles and runs in Cygwin, so it seems like DVD burning > shouldn't be that big a step. At some point, maintaining definitions for all platforms within growisofs.c will become deeply annoying. A generic SCSI abstraction layer would be a good idea. cdrecord(-ProDVD) has been using one for a long time. I think cdrecord's SCSI library is very good and free; you might want to go all the way and change growisofs to use it instead of adding just one more platform. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
