FreshPorts -- security/libgcrypt: General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG

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libgcrypt General purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG

1.12.4 security =268 1.12.4Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.

Maintainer: cy@FreeBSD.org

Port Added: 2002-10-14 12:39:38

Last Update: 2026-09-15 19:50:22

Commit Hash: ee50095

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License: GPLv2+ LGPL21+

WWW:

https://www.gnupg.org/software/libgcrypt/index.html

Description:

Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers, hash algorithms, MACs, public key algorithms, large integer functions, random numbers and a lot of supporting functions.

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Manual pages:

hmac256(1)

pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist

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@ldconfig
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.4/catalog.mk
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.4/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.4/GPLv2+
/usr/local/share/licenses/libgcrypt-1.12.4/LGPL21+
bin/mpicalc
bin/dumpsexp
bin/hmac256
bin/libgcrypt-config
include/gcrypt.h
lib/libgcrypt.a
lib/libgcrypt.so
lib/libgcrypt.so.20
lib/libgcrypt.so.20.8.9
libdata/pkgconfig/libgcrypt.pc
share/man/man1/hmac256.1.gz
share/aclocal/libgcrypt.m4
@owner
@group
@mode

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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)

no SUBR information found for this port

Dependency lines:

libgcrypt>0:security/libgcrypt

To install the port:

cd /usr/ports/security/libgcrypt/ && make install clean

To add the package, run one of these commands:

pkg install security/libgcrypt
pkg install libgcrypt

NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.

PKGNAME: libgcrypt

Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.

distinfo:

TIMESTAMP = 1789492733 SHA256 (libgcrypt-1.12.4.tar.bz2) = d77f68f48879510e79a2f65977ccc68981781ea0923e5bdffac2a193ea3d660e SIZE (libgcrypt-1.12.4.tar.bz2) = 4473329

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):

libgcrypt
ABI	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386	powerpc	powerpc64	powerpc64le	riscv64
FreeBSD:13:latest	1.12.2	1.12.2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:13:quarterly	1.12.0_1	1.12.0_1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:14:latest	1.12.4	1.12.4	1.9.4_1	1.11.2	1.12.4	1.9.4_1	-	1.9.4_1	-
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	1.12.4	1.12.4	-	1.11.2	1.12.4	1.10.3	1.10.3	1.10.3	-
FreeBSD:15:latest	1.12.4	1.12.4	n/a	1.11.2	n/a	n/a	1.10.3_1	1.10.3_1	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	1.12.4	1.12.4	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-	-
FreeBSD:16:latest	1.12.4	1.12.4	n/a	-	n/a	n/a	-	-	-

Dependencies

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Build dependencies:

libgpg-error>=1.32 : security/libgpg-error
makeinfo : print/texinfo

Runtime dependencies:

libgpg-error>=1.32 : security/libgpg-error
indexinfo : print/indexinfo

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Configuration Options:

===> The following configuration options are available for libgcrypt-1.12.4: AVX512=off: Include AVX512 support for FreeBSD 14 and 15 DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation INFO=on: Build and/or install GNU info pages STATIC=on: Build static executables and/or libraries ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

Options name:

security_libgcrypt

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