On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:29:48 +0100, Werner Koch <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:34, [email protected] said: > >> But this is a *source* download, how do I get a binary to install in >> Windows7?? > >see doc/README.W32. For your convience I yank it here: > >How to build GnuPG from the source: >=================================== > >Until recently all official GnuPG versions have been build using the >Mingw32/CPD kit as available at >ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/people/werner/cpd/mingw32-cpd-0.3.2.tar.gz . >However, for maintenance reasons we switched to Debian's mingw32 cross >compiler package and that is now the recommended way of building GnuPG >for W32 platforms. It might be possible to build it nativly on a W32 >platform but this is not supported. Please don't file any bug reports >if it does not build with any other system than the recommended one. > >According to the conditions of the GNU General Public License you >either got the source files with this package, a written offer to send >you the source on demand or the source is available at the same site >you downloaded the binary package. If you downloaded the package from >the official GnuPG site or one of its mirrors, the corresponding >source tarball is available in the sibling directory named gnupg. The >source used to build all versions is always the same and the version >numbers should match. If the version number of the binary package has >a letter suffix, you will find a patch file installed in the "Src" >directory with the changes relative to the generic version. > >The source is distributed as a BZIP2 or GZIP compressed tar archive. >See the instructions in file README on how to check the integrity of >that file. Wir a properly setup build environment, you unpack the >tarball change to the created directory and run > > $ ./autogen.sh --build-w32 > $ make > $ cp g10/gpg*.exe /some_windows_drive/ > >Building a version with the installer is a bit more complex and >basically works by creating a top directory, unpacking in that top >directory, switching to the gnupg-1.x.y directory, running >"./autogen.sh --build-w32" and "make", switching back to the top >directory, running a "mkdir dist-w32; mkdir iconv", copying the >required iconv files (iconv.dll, README.iconv, COPYING.LIB) into the >iconv directory, running gnupg-1.x.y/scripts/mk-w32-dist and voila, >the installer package will be available in the dist-w32 directory. > Fine, does Debian also mean Ubuntu? I have an Ubuntu 10 virtual machine available and I have heard thta Ubuntu is just a falvour of Debian.... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
