Several problems with building GnuPG 2 for Windows

[Laila Vrazda]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:19, lailavrazda1979 at gmail.com said:
> > With the latest version of libassuan, HAVE_DOSISH_SYSTEM is still not
> > defined for target x86_64-w64-mingw32.
>
> x86_64-w64-mingw32 creates 64 bit Windows binaries - right?
>
> case "${host}" in
>     [...]
>
>     x86_64-*mingw32*)
>         have_w32_system=yes
>         have_w64_system=yes
>         ;;
>     *-mingw32ce*)
>         have_dosish_system=yes
>         have_w32_system=yes
>         have_w32ce_system=yes
>         ;;
>     *-mingw32*)
>         have_dosish_system=yes
>         have_w32_system=yes
>         ;;
>     [...]
>
> The first listed case defines have_w64_system and the last case is used
> for 32 bit Windows.  However, as I already explained several times:
> Libassuan and the whole GnuPG system can't be build for W64 (64 bit
> Windows binaries).  Even if we already define some variables; this does
> not mean W64 is supported!
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>    Werner
>
>
> --
> Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
>
>
If you define some variables, it implies you're trying to move toward
supporting W64, and this will only take one line to fix. Unless you plan on
never supporting modern Windows systems?
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