/xca

X Certificate and Key management

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XCA -- X Certificate and Key Management

CMake

Release Notes

  • The latest release is 2.4.0
  • Most notable changes
    • Add support for Ed25519 keys
    • Add commandline support (e.g. generate CRL)
  • Fix a lot of bugs
  • Since version 2 of XCA the database format changed to SQL Don't try to open it with older versions of XCA (< 1.4.0). They will corrupt the database.
  • Please report issues on github https://github.com/chris2511/xca/issues

Changelog:

A detailled changelog can be found here:

http://hohnstaedt.de/xca/index.php/software/changelog

Documentation

This application is documented in the Help menu and here:

https://www.hohnstaedt.de/xca/index.php/documentation/manual

Build from Source

Dependencies

To build XCA you need:

Linux / Unix

  • Install the dependencies
    sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5sql5 libqt5help5 cmake qttools5-dev python3-sphinx
    
  • Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git
  • Configure: cmake -B build xca
  • Make: cmake --build build -j5
  • Install: sudo cmake --install build
  • Or install local and copy later as root: DESTDIR=DEST cmake --install build --prefix /usr

Apple macos

  • Install the dependencies
    xcode-select --install
    brew install openssl qt5 python3 cmake
    pip3 install sphinx
    
  • Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git
  • Configure: cmake -B build xca
  • Make: cmake --build build -j5
  • Build the DMG: cd build && cpack
  • Build the PKG: cd build && cpack -G productbuild

XCA can be used with Xcode after initializing the directory with: cmake -G Xcode -B .

Windows

  • Install the dependencies

    • Install Python for windows from the store or https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
    • Install OpenSSL from here: https://slproweb.com/download/Win64OpenSSL-1_1_1m.msi and verify the sha256 from https://github.com/slproweb/opensslhashes/blob/master/win32_openssl_hashes.json
    • To install the Qt libraries, cmake and the MinGW compiler aqtinstall is used. Sphinx is used to generate the documentation
      pip3 install sphinx aqtinstall
      
    • Add the PATH shown by pip to your PATH
    • Install Qt, cmake and the MinGW toolchain
      aqt install-qt windows desktop 5.15.2 win64_mingw81
      aqt install-tool windows desktop tools\_cmake qt.tools.cmake.win64
      aqt install-tool windows desktop tools\_mingw qt.tools.win64\_mingw810
      aqt install-tool windows desktop tools\_vcredist qt.tools.vcredist_64
      
    • If 7z is missing, install it from the store. 7-Zip File Manager (unofficial) or from 7-zip.org
    • Add cmake, MinGW, OpenSSL and Qt5 to your Path
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts;
      %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;
      %USERPROFILE%\Tools\CMake_64\bin;
      %USERPROFILE%\Tools\mingw810_64\bin;
      %USERPROFILE%\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin;
      
    • Create Qt5_DIR environment variable:
      %USERPROFILE%\5.15.2\mingw81_64\lib\cmake
      
    • Install https://wixtoolset.org/releases/ if you want to create the installer
    • Optional for the remote database connections:
  • Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git

  • Configure: cmake -B build -G "MinGW Makefiles" xca

  • Make: cmake --build build -j5

  • Build the MSI installer: cd build && cpack