Re: request for help: openpgp under windows doesn't work

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Windows builds of GnuTLS seem to have some problems in the opencdk
> library, which causes parsing of packets to fail.  This can be seen with
> the 'pgps2kgnu' self-test, which unfortunately results the same error as
> if the problem it is supposed to test for exists (I've made sure the s2k
> patch is still working).  The problem appears to be in the low-level
> stream reading code in opencdk.
> It could be that pgp has never worked under Windows, since the pgp self
> tests have been disabled because of missing fork().  I'm inclined to
> disable openpgp authentication under windows for the 2.6.x build, and
> note in the release notes that it doesn't work currently.

I had test the openpgp code in windows a while (year) ago and it
worked. I had some issues though, functions like tmpfile() could only
be used if run as administrator in windows. Can it be that case?

> Help in debugging the problem would be appreciated, it is easy to get a
> windows build and debug it under debian, see
> <http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/>.  I tried to do this, but I'm not
> familiar with opencdk and didn't understand exactly how the code was
> supposed to work anyway.

I might be able to check it within this week.

regards,
Nikos