Re: gcc 4.0 and JCE

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Stefan Prelle wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Maybe I'm just to blind to see what is missing, but I have a problem
> when building a native binary that uses the JCE. When executing a
> program that obtains a Mac using Mac.getInstance(..) this works when
> using gij and fails with a NoSuchAlgorithmException when executing the
> native binary.
>  

GCJ and GNU Classpath don't yet support all of the same security 
providers as Sun's implementation. I had a brief look through the code 
and as far as I can see, Mac providers are not supplied at all. You'll 
have to use additional security providers, such as GNU Crypto, to get

I don't know why it worked for you using gij, however. For me, your 
example fails with the NoSuchAlgorithmException both with gij and with a 
native binary.

Bryce