GPGME-1.11.1

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-8.3 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gpgme/gpgme-1.11.1.tar.bz2

  • Download MD5 sum: 129c46fb85a7ffa41e43345e48aee884

  • Download size: 1.4 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 125 MB (with all bindings)

  • Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (with parallelism=4; with all bindings, add 0.5 SBU for tests)

GPGME Dependencies

Required

Libassuan-2.5.1

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.14 (for API documentation), GnuPG-2.2.9 (required if Qt or SWIG are installed; used during the testsuite), Clisp-2.49, Python-2.7.15, Qt-5.11.1, 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 --disable-gpg-test &&
make

To test the results, you should have GnuPG-2.2.9 installed and remove the --disable-gpg-test above. Issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-gpg-test: if this parameter is not passed to configure, the test programs are built during make stage, which requires GnuPG-2.2.9. This parameter is not needed if GnuPG-2.2.9 is installed.

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 2018-08-16 17:08:56 -0700