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@@ -701,6 +701,16 @@ directory part is used as the default installation directory; the
@code{.exe} suffix is added by GPGME. Use forward slashed even under
Windows.
+@item "w32-inst-dir"
+On Windows GPGME needs to know its installation directory to find its
+spawn helper. This is in general no problem because a DLL has this
+information. Some applications however link statically to GPGME and
+thus GPGME can only figure out the installation directory of this
+application which may be wrong in certain cases. By supplying an
+installation directory as value to this flag, GPGME will assume that
+that directory is the installation directory. This flag has no effect
+on non-Windows platforms.
+
@end table
This function returns @code{0} on success. In contrast to other