[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#623526: gnupg: support building with mingw-w64

Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert at wgdd.de
Thu Apr 21 19:05:54 UTC 2011


Am Donnerstag, den 21.04.2011, 00:12 +0200 schrieb Stephen Kitt:

> mingw-w64, which is intended to eventually replace mingw32 and the
> assorted packages, is now available in Debian along with new builds of
> binutils and gcc. The attached patch allows gzip to build using
> mingw-w64 rather than mingw32. I've checked the resulting executable
> and it seems to work fine.
> 
> The patch disables ldap support for the Win32 build because of a
> change in the parameters expected for the ldap_start_tls_sA function
> (see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366997%28v=vs.85%29.aspx -
> the MinGW-w64 headers use the new definition with five parameters).
> This doesn't affect gpgv so I reckoned it was innocuous as far as the
> Debian package is concerned, but it would have to be fixed for
> upstream to use mingw-w64 too (the gnupg site mentions that the
> Windows builds are prepared using the Debian mingw32 package).

Did you already report the latter to upstream or should we open a bug
report about this?

Regards, Daniel






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