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iconv.dll is still a problem
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According to https://www.gnupg.org/download/iconv.en.html iconv.dll is not
needed as of 2.0.21. Have installed v2.1.9 but am getting the error...
"gpg:error loading 'iconv.dll': The specified module could not be found"

On the same URL above, we have a iconv.dll package (.zip) to use and a .sig for
that. The .sig file looks like being a bad (expired?) Werner Koch signature,
only obtained by importing the full block of data from
https://www.gnupg.org/signature_key.html

Would prefer not to need iconv.dll - as this is stated on the page. If error
(message) cannot be fixed - how about a link to a signed iconv.dll, with details
about the valid public key of the person distributing?

Thanks.

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v2.1.9

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NightsInRodanthe added projects: gnupg, Bug Report.Oct 21 2015, 7:23 PM
NightsInRodanthe set Version to v2.1.9.
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aheinecke added a subscriber: aheinecke.Nov 4 2015, 11:39 AM

I would prefer if for Windows GnuPG would not use iconv at all as the Windows
API already provides encoding conversion calls. Win-iconv is a small wrapper
around Windows API calls to provide iconv API so that no code changes would be
necessary.

https://github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv

It could be treated as just another POSIX helper / wrapper and included directly
in GnuPG (licensed as public domain).

• werner removed a project: Bug Report.Jan 15 2016, 1:20 PM
• werner added a project: Feature Request.
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I don't count win-iconv a small helper.
We can solve this problem more easily by moving the ut8conv.c code to
libgpg-error which alread has some of the conversion code.

I change the category to whis because this is not a bug but a build requirement.

• werner lowered the priority of this task from Normal to Wishlist.Jan 15 2016, 1:20 PM
dkg added a subscriber: dkg.Feb 5 2016, 4:38 PM

I'm also interested in this, since i want to make it possible to easily build a
win32 version of gpgv.exe on debian systems. This is possible without iconv at
all in 1.4.x, but i would rather we ship a gpgv from 2.1.x in the future.

dkg added a comment.Feb 16 2016, 8:10 AM

fwiw, i've now got most of GnuPG cross-building for win32 from a debian platform
using win-iconv. win-iconv doesn't seem to be a terrible choice to me.

• werner claimed this task.Apr 20 2016, 4:28 PM
• werner added a project: Restricted Project.Apr 21 2016, 9:58 AM

I have implemented iconv in libgpg-error master (commit 1cd1ddb). This is a
stripped down version of win-iconv where I removed the feature to load another
libiconv and disabled the mlang.dll (whatever this is) for now.

With gnupg master commit bd4d656 tehre is no more need for libiconv for Windows.

• werner added a comment.May 4 2016, 5:26 PM

Should be solved now: Use Libgpg-error 1.22 and GnuPG 2.1.12.

• werner closed this task as Resolved.May 4 2016, 5:26 PM
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