Chapter 8 – DC3dd Compile

Here is a quick overview of how to compile DC3dd in Cygwin. Visit the Sourceforge website and download the latest source code release. On a Microsoft Windows system, the easiest way is to install Cygwin, a Unix-like environment for Windows.

Cygwin website www.cygwin.com

Be sure to select the additional required packages, gcc and make, in Cygwin. On a Linux system, use your package manager to ensure you have gcc and make installed, if you don’t already. Then extract the DC3dd tarball, run the ./configure command, and then run make. After a few minutes, the DC3dd binary should be in the src directory. Sample output of the process in a Cygwin environment is shown next:

user@cygwin / $ cd /tmp/dc3dd/
 user@cygwin /tmp/dc3dd $ ./configure
 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
 checking whether build environment is sane... yes
 checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
 checking for gawk... gawk
 <snip>
 config.status: executing depfiles commands
 config.status: executing po-directories commands
 config.status: creating po/POTFILES
 config.status: creating po/Makefile
 user@cygwin /tmp/dc3dd $ make
 cd . && /bin/sh /tmp/dc3dd/build-aux/missing --run aclocal-1.10 -I m4
 configure.ac:44: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call detected in body
 /usr/src/packages/autoconf/26/autoconf2.5-2.68-1/src/autoconf-2.68/lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is expanded from...
 <snip>
 make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
 make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/dc3dd
 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/dc3dd'
 user@cygwin /tmp/dc3dd $ cd src
 user@cygwin /tmp/dc3dd/src $ ./dc3dd.exe
 dc3dd 7.1.614 started at 2012-04-12 23:17:35 -0400
 compiled options:
 command line: ./dc3dd
 sector size: 512 bytes (assumed)
 0 bytes (0) copied (??%), 2.18152 s, 0 K/s

When the compilation is complete, install the binaries, libraries, and documentation by running the make install command. This will allow you to run DC3dd easily, because it will now be in your path.