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.
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Note
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Package Information
GPGME Dependencies
Required
libassuan-3.0.1
Optional
Doxygen-1.12.0 and Graphviz-12.2.1 (for API documentation),
GnuPG-2.4.7 (required if Qt or SWIG are
installed; used during the test suite), Clisp-2.49, and
SWIG-4.3.0 (for language bindings)
Installation of GPGME
First, allow the build system to detect Python-3.13. Also, prevent
the build system from attaching the -unknown suffix to the version string when it's
regenerated outside of a Git repository. After this, regenerate the
build system:
sed 's/\[3.12\]/&,[3.13]/' -i configure.ac &&
sed 's/-unknown//' -i autogen.sh &&
autoconf
Install GPGME by running the
following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
../configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gpg-test &&
make PYTHONS=
If SWIG-4.3.0 is installed, build the Python 3
binding as a wheel:
if swig -version > /dev/null; then
srcdir=$PWD/../lang/python \
top_builddir=$PWD \
pip3 wheel -w dist --no-build-isolation --no-deps --no-cache-dir $PWD/lang/python
fi
To test the results, you should have GnuPG-2.4.7 installed and
remove the --disable-gpg-test above.
Issue:
if swig -version > /dev/null; then
python3 -m venv testenv &&
testenv/bin/pip3 install --no-index --find-links=dist --no-cache-dir \
gpg &&
sed '/PYTHON/s#run-tests.py#& --python-libdir=/dev/null#' \
-i lang/python/tests/Makefile
fi &&
make -k check PYTHONS= PYTHON=$PWD/testenv/bin/python3
Now, as the root user:
make install PYTHONS=
If SWIG-4.3.0 is installed, still as the root user, install the Python 3 binding:
if swig -version > /dev/null; then
pip3 install --no-index --find-links=dist --no-cache-dir --no-user gpg
fi
Command Explanations
--disable-gpg-test: if this
parameter is not passed to configure, the test programs are built
during make stage,
which requires GnuPG-2.4.7. This parameter is not needed if
GnuPG-2.4.7 is installed.
PYTHONS=: Disable building
Python binding using the deprecated python3 setup.py build command.
The explicit instruction to build the Python 3 binding with the
pip3 wheel command is
provided.