[Announce] Updated GnuPG 1.4.0 Windows binary

Don Ferguson donald.ferguson at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 00:22:41 CET 2004


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:17:10 +0100, Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> a couple of hours ago we announced GnuPG 1.4.0, claiming that a
> compiled version for MS Windows is also available.  Unfortunately that
> Windows version version has a severe bug which makes it pretty
> unusable.  To fix this a new binary version has been released.  The
> old file has been removed from the server and the new one has been
> given the version number 1.4.0a.
> 
> If you already downloaded gnupg-w32cli-1.4.0.zip, you should replace
> that with the new one:
> 
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4.0a.zip    (1627k)
> ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4.0a.zip.sig
> 
> The SHA1 checksum of the zip file is:
> 
>  28be01b7f8eaa29db73d11bf8b9504e823c07c2b  gnupg-w32cli-1.4.0a.zip
> 
> I apologize for my silliness of not properly testing the Windows
> version.
> 
> Salam-Shalom,
> 
>   Werner
> 
> --
> Werner Koch                                      <wk at gnupg.org>
> The GnuPG Experts                                http://g10code.com
> Free Software Foundation Europe                  http://fsfeurope.org
> 
> The change to the 1.4.0 code is:
> 
> diff -u -r1.71 iobuf.c
> --- util/iobuf.c        6 Dec 2004 10:32:20 -0000       1.71
> +++ util/iobuf.c        16 Dec 2004 19:30:27 -0000
> @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
>                         || (*a == '\' && *b == '/')) )
>         break;
>     }
> -  return *(const unsigned *)a - *(const unsigned *)b;
> +  return *(const unsigned char *)a - *(const unsigned char *)b;
> #else
>   return strcmp (a, b);
> #endif
> 
> 

When I run gpg, I get the message ...
gpg: error loading 'iconv.dll': The specified module could not be found.

I don't see iconv.dll in gnupg-w32cli-1.4.0a.zip.  So how do I correct
this error?



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