Can anyone compile a Mac OS X CLI for hdl_dump 0.8.3?

[grunken]

*this is a repost of a thread also found in the IDE HDD Discussion forum*

With the newly released HDL_Dump 0.8.3, I'm wondering if somebody could throw together an Mac OS X CLI version? I don't know squat about compiling, and have not had much luck finding a precompiled file. I'm fully familiar with the Windows CLI version however (been using VPC7), so I'm just hoping for better speeds with network transfers and maybe even a direct PS2 HD connection if I manage to run an Mac OS X CLI.

Is this at all possible? Or am I missing something obvious? I am only going by this excerpt from the Change Log of hdl_dump ...

"0.8
+ should be compatible with MacOS X"

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

*I apologize beforehand if the duplicate post is a problem*

[fuzzy]

Here you are.

gunzip hdl_dump.gz
chmod 755 hdl_dump
sudo mv hdl_dump /usr/local/bin/

I compiled it from the 0.8.3 source a while ago, don't know if it's linked against any dylibs (where's ldd on os x?) you might need. It works on my iBook with 10.4.3, use at your own risk!

[grunken]

gunzip hdl_dump.gz
chmod 755 hdl_dump
sudo mv hdl_dump /usr/local/bin/

Hey thanks fuzzy! I actually got a friend to help me compile my own, didn't realize it was just a make hdl_dump command at the source directory. I'm actually wondering what your experiences have been like with the utility. My range of knowledge of the the Unix command line is limited, but I've been able to adapt most commands to the "How To" tutorial at http://hdldump.psx-scene.com/howto.html with an except few.

For example, the ./hdl_dump query command always yields me a 00000000 (0): Unknown error: 0. I simply use diskutil list instead. Also any attempts to inject/cdvd_info games directly from a CD or DVD is shot down with either a 00000010 (16): Resource busy when the volume is mounted or a Segmentation fault when unmounted. None of this is a problem with disk images. And what I've had least success with, is being able to transfer from one PS2 HD to another, or even perform a cdvd_info for the game partitions on the PS2 HD.

Using the Windows command line as a guide:
hdl_dump cdvd_info "hdd1:Midnight Club
I can only think to adapt to this for Unix:
./hdl_dump cdvd_info "/dev/disk1Midnight Club"

Any / or space between /dev/disk1 and Midnight Club does not seem to make a difference, all resulting in No such file or directory. Quotations seem to only be used around the filepath when the PS2 HD behaves as the source, as with this PS2 HD to PS2 HD Windows command line:
hdl_dump inject_cd hdd2: "Midnight Club" "hdd1:Midnight Club" SLES_500.54

And having always substituted hddx: with a corresponding /dev/diskx, my logic for producing this Unix counterpart becomes obvious:
./hdl_dump inject_dvd /dev/disk2 "Midnight Club" "/dev/disk1Midnight Club" SLES_500.54

Which simply does not work, and it is clear I am missing something. And having recently experienced corrupt data after not completing a transfer over the network, I also wonder if there is any way to cancel or abort a transfer once it has been started (much as HD Loader allows). This is all under a dual G4 running 10.4.3. If anybody has any input on these issues, it would be greatly appreciated.

Also fuzzy, if you could or somebody else, explain what the chmod 755 hdl_dump command does to hdl_dump ?
Thanks again!

[fuzzy]

For example, the ./hdl_dump query command always yields me a 00000000 (0): Unknown error: 0. I simply use diskutil list instead. Also any attempts to inject/cdvd_info games directly from a CD or DVD is shot down with either a 00000010 (16): Resource busy when the volume is mounted or a Segmentation fault when unmounted. None of this is a problem with disk images. And what I've had least success with, is being able to transfer from one PS2 HD to another, or even perform a cdvd_info for the game partitions on the PS2 HD.

Hmm, since I got no external USB enclosure and I only have an iBook, I only tried out the networking functions of hdl_dump.

Using the Windows command line as a guide:
hdl_dump cdvd_info "hdd1:Midnight Club
I can only think to adapt to this for Unix:
./hdl_dump cdvd_info "/dev/disk1Midnight Club"

Any / or space between /dev/disk1 and Midnight Club does not seem to make a difference, all resulting in No such file or directory.

This looks wrong somehow. I'd try something like "/dev/disk1:Game Name". hdd2 is the Windows device name without separator, /dev/disk1 is the Unix name without separator. But again, I can't check that with my setup.

Quotations seem to only be used around the filepath when the PS2 HD behaves as the source, as with this PS2 HD to PS2 HD Windows command line:
hdl_dump inject_cd hdd2: "Midnight Club" "hdd1:Midnight Club" SLES_500.54

And having always substituted hddx: with a corresponding /dev/diskx, my logic for producing this Unix counterpart becomes obvious:
./hdl_dump inject_dvd /dev/disk2 "Midnight Club" "/dev/disk1Midnight Club" SLES_500.54

Again, I'd try "/dev/disk1:Midnight Club"

Also fuzzy, if you could or somebody else, explain what the chmod 755 hdl_dump command does to hdl_dump ?
Thanks again!

Thanks for wondering, more power to you:

Short introduction to unix permissions

When you downloaded and unzipped the hdl_dump.gz file, it probably looked like this, with your username instead of "fuzzy":

fuzzy@toth:~$ ls -l hdl_dump.gz 
-rw-r--r--    1 fuzzy    fuzzy      101288 Dec 16 10:55 hdl_dump.gz

The first field are file permissions, the second is the link count (another story...) followed by the file owner and group. File size and date is obvious.

Every file has an owner and a group. If you belong to more than one group (check with

fuzzy@toth:~$ id
uid=501(fuzzy) gid=501(fuzzy) groups=501(fuzzy), 507(nethack), 506(oracle), 80(admin)

), you can change the file's group with

fuzzy@toth:~$ chgrp oracle hdl_dump.gz 
fuzzy@toth:~$ ls -l hdl_dump.gz 
-rw-r--r--    1 fuzzy    oracle     101288 Dec 16 10:55 hdl_dump.gz
fuzzy@toth:~$ chgrp fuzzy hdl_dump.gz 
fuzzy@toth:~$ ls -l hdl_dump.gz 
-rw-r--r--    1 fuzzy    fuzzy      101288 Dec 16 10:55 hdl_dump.gz

As root, you can also change the owner of a file using the command chown:

fuzzy@toth:~$ sudo chown fnord hdl_dump.gz 
fuzzy@toth:~$ ls -l hdl_dump.gz 
-rw-r--r--    1 fnord    fuzzy      101288 Dec 16 10:55 hdl_dump.gz

Now about the file permissions: There are three groups of permissions, for user, group and others. Each of these groups has three flags, read (r), write (w) and executable(x). With an additional special flag (e.g. d for directory), you'll get the pattern on the left side of ls -l:

special - user - group - others

So in the last example, we have no special flag (-), rw- for user fnord, so this user can read and modify this file and r-- for group fuzzy and others, so everyone else can only read this file.

The file permissions can be changed by the file's owner or by root:

fuzzy@toth:~$ sudo chown fuzzy hdl_dump.gz ; chmod g+w hdl_dump.gz
fuzzy@toth:~$ ls -l hdl_dump.gz 
-rw-rw-r--    1 fuzzy    fuzzy      101288 Dec 16 10:55 hdl_dump.gz

(you can separate multiple commands on the command line with ; )

Using chmod, for the group fuzzy (g) we added (+) write permissions (w), now every user belonging to this group can modify the file.

A file with permissions -rw-rw-rw- could be modified by everyone logged in to your system. But if you want files to be modified by more people, create a group for those, add everyone to that group and grant group write permissions. ^^

Now since I uploaded a binary, you may want to execute it. To make a file executable, you add the x flag for the desired groups of users:

fuzzy@toth:~$ gunzip hdl_dump.gz 
fuzzy@toth:~$ chmod a+x hdl_dump 
fuzzy@toth:~$ ls -l hdl_dump 
-rwxrwxr-x    1 fuzzy    fuzzy      301728 Dec 16 10:55 hdl_dump

Now everyone on the system can execute that unpacked hdl_dump binary. a is a shortcut for ugo, it sets the x flag for all three groups at once.

In my original post (phew), I used

chmod 755 hdl_dump

This is actually a shortcut to specify all permission flags in one number.
For the three groups user, group and others, add up:

1: Executable (x)
2: Write (w)
4: Read (r)

So 755 is rwx for user and r-x for group and others. You can read, modfiy and execute the file, everyone else can only read and execute it.