Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.1

Chapter 4. Security

GPGME-1.9.0

Introduction to GPGME

The GPGME package is a C library that allows cryptography support to be added to a program. It is designed to make access to public key crypto engines like GnuPG or GpgSM easier for applications. GPGME provides a high-level crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.1 platform.

Package Information

GPGME Dependencies

Required

Libassuan-2.4.3

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.13 (for API documentation), GnuPG-2.1.23 (used during the testsuite), and Clisp-2.49, Python-2.7.13, Python-3.6.2, Qt-5.9.1, and/or SWIG-3.0.12 (for language bindings)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gpgme

Installation of GPGME

Install GPGME by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Program: gpgme-config and gpgme-tool
Installed Libraries: libgpgme-pthread.so and libgpgme.so
Installed Directory: /usr/share/common-lisp/source/gpgme

Short Descriptions

gpgme-config

is used to obtain GPGME compilation and linking information.

gpgme-tool

prints fingerprint and keyid with keyservers.

libgpgme-pthread.so

contains the GPGME API functions for applications using pthread.

libgpgme.so

contains the GPGME API functions.

Last updated on 2017-08-20 20:24:54 -0700