Re: [sleuthkit-users] Sleuthkit v3.0 b3 Win32: split image not recognized

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 2:38 AM, Mark Stam wrote:

> Hi Farmerdude,
>
> too bad, I have tried the impressive Powershell and it's also not  
> very successfull, the error:
>
> Error stat(ing) image file (image.* : No such file or directory)

I hadn't heard of PowerShell before.  Thanks Thomas.

Mark, I wonder if what you are seeing is because Windows also offers  
the CommandLineToArgv() function to get command line arguments, which  
the current beta does not use. I recently started to use it though  
because it is the only way I can get Unicode arguments when compiling  
with mingw.  The nightly snapshot has this feature enabled.  I'll do  
another beta release soon.

> For me, the only way to open splitted images with Windows is by  
> using Cygwin
>
> Brian, maybe it's an idea to use the rather small cygwin1.dll (the  
> POSIX Emulation DLL) and put it in the 'Sleuthkit for Windows  
> package'. The Win32 version of Testdisk / Photorec (http:// 
> www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) uses cygwin1.dll and can open  
> splitted images without any problems. Maybe Christoph Grenier  
> (creator of Testdisk - gr...@cg...) can tell you more  
> details

If they are including the cygwin1.dll then I am assuming that they  
are compiling with Cygwin and not Visual Studio (which can already be  
done).

As you pointed out in another e-mail to me, the current beta fails to  
compile on Cygwin. It is more sensitive than other compilers on some  
type mismatches that I screwed up. Again, the nightly snapshots  
should fix this, but to use the nightly snapshot you will need  
autoconf/automake/libtool installed.

http://www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/snapshots.php

brian