Windows Version lacks GPG Encryption/Decryption support

[srmfx]

This is the message I receive when running dar from windows to list files in an archive that has been encrypted with a GPG Key on linux. I've carefully imported the GPG key(private and public) to windows. I'm also using 'GPG4WIN' on windows.

GPG4WIN

It seems that the Windows version of dar doesn't support Asymetric Strong encryption algorithms using GPGME feature. For some reason this comes ready and out-of-box for linux, but not for windows.

This is where I've got my windows version of dar:
Sourceforge DAR Project

Message Output:
"$ dar -l test_crypt.1.dar
Warning, no archive exist with "test_crypt.1.dar" as basename, however a slice part of an archive which basename is "test_crypt" exists. Assuming a shell completion occurred and using that basename instead.
Aborting due to exception: Asymetric Strong encryption algorithms using GPGME.
Final memory cleanup.
Aborting program. The requested operation needs a feature that has been disabled at compilation time: Asymetric Strong encryption algorithms using GPGME"

[Edrusb]

Yes, this has been disabled because gpgme is a frontend linked to the application (here dar) which requires the gpg command line available somewhere, this leads to forking a gpg process from dar... if gpg is not available or if gpg is available outside cygwin where dar has been built for windows, this will not work. For that reason, I don't build and distribute windows binary as well as static binaries for Linux with gpgme support available.

My advice is to build dar from the provided tarball source in your own windows environment (either Cygwin or linux emulation). Actually I'm really very short in free time, I'm sorry.

However you can have a look at the scripts I'm using in the source code: misc/batch_cygwin and adapt it to your needs.