Environment variable GNUPGHOME with Windows + MSYS2

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2025 16:32:29 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit Thomas 
Schweikle via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Within Windows gnupg uses "%APPDATA%\gnupg" for its keyring and
> configurations.
> MSYS2 gpg uses "/c/msys/home/%USERNAME%/.gnupg". Now I had the idea to set
> GNUPGHOME so both could work with the same directory:
> 
> set GNUPGHOME=%APPDATA%\gnupg
> 
> This worked for gnupg from the gnupg-package. It worked for Gpg4Win
> included gpg as well, but the MSYS included version gave
> 
> gpg: keyblock resource
> '/c/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Roaming\\
> gnupg/pubring.kbx': No such file or directory
> gpg: Fatal:
> /c/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/gnupg/C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Roaming\\g
> nupg: directory does not exist!
> 
> from an MSYS shell. Any idea how to overcome this problem?

I doubt that it helps but try
set GNUPGHOME=%APPDATA%/gnupg
i.e with a forward slash instead of a backslash. Or try
set GNUPGHOME=C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Roaming/gnupg

Regards,
Ingo
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