XMLSec Library

XMLSec library provides C based implementation for major XML Security standards:

• XML Signature Syntax and Processing
• XML Encryption Syntax and Processing

Detailed information about supported features and algorithms can be found in the XMLDsig and the XMLEnc interoperability reports.

Documentation

Complete XMLSec library documentation is published on XMLSec website.

License

XMLSec library is released under the MIT Licence (see the Copyright file).

Building and installing XMLSec

Prerequisites

XMLSec requires the following libraries:

• LibXML2
• LibXSLT

And at least one of the following cryptographic libraries:

• OpenSSL
• NSS
• GCrypt/GnuTLS
• MS Crypto API (Windows only)
• MS Crypto API NG (Windows only)

For example, the following packages need to be installed on Ubuntu to build XMLSec library:

  # common build tools
  apt install automake autoconf libtool libtool-bin gcc

  # ltdl is required to support dynamic crypto libs loading
  apt install libltdl7 libltdl-dev

  # core libxml2 and libxslt libraries
  apt install libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev

  # openssl libraries
  apt install openssl libssl3 libssl-dev

  # nspr/nss libraries
  apt install libnspr4 libnspr4-dev libnss3 libnss3-dev libnss3-tools

  # gnutls libraries
  apt install libgnutls30

  # gnutls libraries
  apt install libgcrypt20 libgcrypt20-dev

  # required for building man pages and docs
  apt install help2man man2html gtk-doc-tools

Building XMLSec on Linux, Unix, MacOSX, MinGW, Cygwin, etc

To build and install XMLSec library on Unix-like systems run the following commands:

  gunzip -c xmlsec1-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  cd xmlsec1-xxxx
  ./configure [possible options]
  make
  make check
  make install

To see the configuration options, run:

  ./configure --help

Building XMLSec on Windows

See win32/README.md for details.