[sylpheed:33588] Re: problem with Sylpheed and GnuPG on Windows 7

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:33:32 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> wrote:

> > > Can anybody tell me how Sylpheed finds out if GnuPG is installed
> > > and working? Is there any way to specify the directory where
> > > gpg.exe is placed for Sylpheed in order to fix this problem?
> > 
> > Sylpheed (GPGME library) first checks for registry:
> > 
> > HKCU\Software\GNU\GnuPG\gpgProgram
> > 
> > If it doesn't exist, GPGME assumes the default location:
> > 
> > %ProgramFiles%\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe
> 
> gnupg-w32cli-1.4.10b.exe doesn't seem to create gpgProgram entry
> anymore, so it will fail if gnupg is installed at non-default
> location.
> 
> The recent GPGME 1.1.8 checks
> 'HKLM\Software\GNU\GnuPG\Install Directory' instead (and this entry
> exists on both old and new gnupg), so I think upgrading GPGME will
> solve this problem. I will fix it at the next release.

I have ended up modifying GPGME 1.1.8 to search the directory where
exe file is located (because of gpgme-w32spawn.exe helper).

This will also allow gpg.exe to be installed on Sylpheed directory.

The patch is attached.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>
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