>Message: 9 >Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:44:26 -0500 >From: John Clizbe <j...@enigmail.net> >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: Re: windows binary for gnupg 1.4.11 // compilation > instructions posted >Message-ID: <4e7aaf1a.1040...@enigmail.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: >> BTW, >> There is a unique advantage to running gnupg from cygwin on >> windows, as it's the only way to make use of unix-like commands, >> (cat, grep, printf, etc.) and pipe them to and from gnupg. > >ONLY? How much effort did you expend looking? > >The MinGW compiler folks provide a little environment called MSYS,
>for Minimal >System. It's not meant to be a full-on environment like Cygwin, >even though it's >a fork of an earlier Cygwin, but provides bash and enough tools to >run most >configure scripts and do a reasonable amount of work. BTW, it's >faster than >Cygwin because it's emulating less. >IIRC, Mozilla based their Windows build environment on MSYS. > >In addition, there is Microsoft's Services for Unix which is the >old Interix >product >Another alternative is UWIN, from AT&T's David Korn and Glenn >Fowler. >(Umm, yeah /THAT/ Dave Korn.) One used to be able to point cc to >either the >MinGW gcc or to MS' CL. I haven't used it in a while. >That's just from memory. ----- Thanks, I knew about the MSYS method, but not about the others, but my point was about running gnupg from a flash drive. I was under the impression that there is no portable way to do that on a flashdrive that doesn't have these systems installed on the host computer, (Is there?? If anyone knows of a way to do it, please post. Thanks. The only way I could think of is to boot to ubuntu and run gnupg from there on the flash drive). So, even though gnupg compiled from cygwin can't be put on a flashdrive to run from windows, it does have the advantage of the unix-like commands. Sorry, about the 'ONLY' ... vedaal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
