Re: Cygwin git with schannel ("native Windows Secure Channel library")

> On 2019-12-20 at 01:52:04, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> I've posted this on Stack Overflow
>> https://stackoverflow.com/q/59381061/827263
>> but I haven't gotten any responses yet.
>>
>> When I install "Git for Windows" on Windows 10, the installation
>> wizard offers the choice of using either the OpenSSL library or the
>> "native Windows Secure Channel library".  (Whether that's offered
>> seems to depend on what's available on the Windows 10 system.)
>> I believe this is referred to in the git sources as "schannel".
>>
>> Is there a way to configure git under Cygwin to use the native
>> Windows Secure Channel library?  An ideal solution would be a
>> modification to my .gitconfig, but something that lets me build git
>> (and possibly curl) from source would also be good.  See my Stack
>> Overflow question for more details, including some things that I
>> tried that didn't work.
>>
>> The problem I'm trying to solve: In my work environment, I can
>> use Cygwin git for local operations, but I have to use Windows git
>> for anything that talks to a remote (push, pull).I'd prefer to use
>> Cygwin git exclusively.
> 
> I'm not 100% certain here, but I believe the answer is no.  In order to
> use SChannel, you'll need to link against MSVCRT or a compatible
> runtime, but it's not possible to link against both that and Cygwin at
> the same time (probably because they both provide the same symbols).
> 
> If your constraint is that you need to interact with the Windows
> certificate store or such, you could see if there's an OpenSSL or GnuTLS
> plugin that will do that for you and then build against that library or
> plugin.