Test Disk Compilation

TestDisk & PhotoRec Source Compilation

First, read notes about your OS:

• DOS
• GNU/Linux
• BSD
• Win
• MacOS

TestDisk and PhotoRec use an ncurses interface, so ncurses library and development files must be present.

To be able to list files from Ext2/ext3, Reiser and NTFS partitions, some additionals libraries can be used:

• Ext2fs library
• Reiserfs library
• NTFS library

For a better JPEG recovery rate, PhotoRec must be compiled with the libjpeg library.

How to compile TestDisk

To compile TestDisk and PhotoRec, run

./configure
make

You may need to specify parameters to configure, see configure --help. Exemple

./configure
--with-reiserfs-lib=/home/kmaster/perso/testdisk-5.2/progsreiserfs-0.3.1-rc8/libreiserfs/.libs/
--with-reiserfs-includes=/home/kmaster/perso/testdisk-5.2/progsreiserfs-0.3.1-rc8/include/
--with-ntfs-lib=/home/kmaster/perso/testdisk-5.2/ntfsprogs-1.8.5/libntfs/.libs/
--with-ntfs-includes=/home/kmaster/perso/testdisk-5.2/ntfsprogs-1.8.5/include/
--with-ext2fs-lib=/home/kmaster/perso/testdisk-5.2/e2fsprogs-1.34/lib
--with-ext2fs-includes=/home/kmaster/perso/testdisk-5.2/e2fsprogs-1.34/lib

Static version

If you need to run the binary on systems that lack one of the previous libraries, create a static binary with

make static

Static compressed binary

If you need a small binary for binary distribution, get the UPX packer at http://upx.sourceforge.net/ and run

make small
upx src/testdisk src/photorec

Note that Linux UPX need decompress program file before run, what request some space on /tmp and running executable must be allowed in this directory (mount -o remount,exec /tmp).

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