gnupg on windows

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:23:50PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > 1. Add information on how to compile gnupg
> > 	for Windows (in INSTALL).
> 
> See doc/README.w32 :-)

ah, there it is. Why not mention it in INSTALL?
That was where I looked for hints on W32. Then
I used the CVS webinterface to browse and
did not realize it is in the Attic.

> There will be no official support for compiling it on other
> environments other than mingw32/CPD (the cross compiler). I just
> can't effort the extra maintenance effort.  There is support for
> Windows and that is enough.  I better assign my time to help make it
> run on VMS than on Windows with another compiler.  Next time soneone
> comes and wants some minor changes for use with MSC6, then for Turbo
> C, then for Watcom ... I few years I luckily retired all the
> compilers I used for Windows and OS/2 along with the special support
> they needed in my libs to replace them with gcc.  And it should stay
> this way.
> 
> Sorry, last word on this.  

OK. I have collected links to experiences with gnupg
compilation for windows at
http://intevation.de/~jan/gnupg/
Perhaps it will help someone.

> > 2. Add patches to the CVS that make it easier
> > 	to compiler for Windows. That will
> 
> I have a huge backlog of small patches and I'll add those which are
> small enough.  But only if time permits it and it does not clutter
> the code with ifdefs.
> 
> > Werner, can you add the patches to gnupg?
> > They refer to the STABLE-1.0 branch.
> 
> OKay.

thanks, but the patches *do* clutter the code with ifdefs ;-)

> > BTW: We have sorted out the Registry problems.
> 
> What was the problem?  Don't say it's due to missing Cygwin support ;-)

No, it is a matter of how Windows works. The documentation
is often unclear on details :-(

Cheers

	Jan

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