Creating native binaries using GNU-Crypto

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Stefan Prelle writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I'm trying to build a native executable that uses the GNU-Crypto JCE
 > implementation. I can link against the libraries that were installed by
 > GNU-Crypto but when I execute the program it fails to load the providers
 > class.
 > 
 > The code is roughly like this:
 > 
 >   Provider prov = (Provider)Class.forName("gnu.crypto.jce.GnuCrypto");
 >   Security.addProvider(prov);
 > 
 > On execution Class.forName fails although the class exists in the shared
 > library and the corresponding jar-file.

This should work.  You need to say much more precisely what you did,
with examples.  We also need to know what system you were using.

Andrew.