On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 9:58 AM Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
<gnupg-users_at_gnupg.org_omcuj...@duck.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 21:26, B.S. said:
> > ... (Windows 10) [DOS] cmd ... [*NOT* powershell]
> > ... cygwin gpg ...
>
> [Do not use a Cygwin build of gpg - this is not supported.  Use a
> standard build for WIndows.]

Thanks kindly. Found https://dev.gnupg.org/T4059 {Jul 8 2018} from
Werner, to explain the point:

> Note that Cygwin is not a supported platform. Seems that the exec functions 
> don't work on this 64 bit variant.
and
> ...  it seems that GnuPG can be used on 32 bit Cygwin....

Very Good to know.


And ... 32-bit cygwin is no longer maintained / supported, as of
version 3.3.6, around 11/11/2022, per
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-November/010810.html


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