[gnutls-devel] How to configure GnuTLS on MinGW?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org>
> Cc: gnutls-devel at lists.gnutls.org
> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 19:23:31 +0100

Thanks for responding.

> >   --without-p11-kit
> >     I do have p11-kit built and installed, but I wonder whether it is
> >     useful on Windows to build GnuTLS with it.  At least for the
> >     certificate storage, I see in the sources that lib/system.c is
> >     capable of using Windows's own certificates.  However,
> >     ENABLE_PKCS11 is present in quite a few other locations in the
> >     sources, so certificates seems to be not the only part of GnuTLS's
> >     functionality that needs p11-kit.  What GnuTLS features might
> >     benefit from p11-kit?
> 
> That would be whether you need support for PKCS #11 smart cards or so.
> It is not straightforward to use them in windows, and unlike linux your
> application must setup the pkcs11 libraries etc. If you don't do that,
> then most probably you don't need it.

Can you elaborate a bit about "setting up the pkcs11 libraries"?  I do
have p11-kit built for Windows and installed, so what else is needed?

Thanks for the other answers, they really help.