Before you can use Burn, you must make sure that the following software is installed on your system. Otherwise you might not even be able to compile Burn.app.
Of course, Burn needs a GNUstep (http://www.gnustep.org) environment to run. It has been developed and tested in the following environment:


Burn.app may most probably not run properly with older versions of GNUstep.
As Burn.app is not meant to be some kind of a file manager, it does not provide an interface to browse your file systems for the data to burn. Instead Burn.app makes use of GWorkspace.app for handling all this. This is why you will need GWorkspace.app in any case. Otherwise you will not be able to burn your data to a CD. Any version of GWorkspace.app starting with 0.6.0 should work with Burn.app.
You can download GWorkspace from here:
http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/gworkspace

Install GWorkspace according to its instructions.
You will need CDPlayer.app if copying audio CDs is an issue for you. Burn.app cannot handle audio CDs by itself, but makes use of CDPlayer.app's services and Drag-and-Drop capabilities.

CDPlayer.app can be downloaded at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61565&release_id=132392

You need at least version 0.4.0 of CDPlayer.app.

More recent versions may be on CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gsburn.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gsburn login
password is empty
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.gsburn.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gsburn co CDPlayer

Unpack the tar ball and do: > make
> make install
Note, that you may need to be super user for the install step.
As mentioned above, Burn.app uses several external tools to actually accomplish the tasks of ripping audio CDs or burning CDs. The package does not contain these external tools, namely cdrecord, mkiofs, and cdparanoia. These must be acquired and installed separately.
Burn.app has so far been tested with the following versions:
  • cdrecord 1.11a05 (www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling/cdrecord.html)
  • cdparanoia III rel. 9.8. (www.xiph.org/paranoia)
  • cdrdao 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7 (cdrdao.sourceforge.net)


      • Get the packages and install them according to their specific instructions.