/xca

X Certificate and Key management

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XCA -- X Certificate and Key Management

CMake

Release Notes

  • The latest release is 2.5.0
  • Drop support for Qt4, old XCA < 2.0.0 databases and OpenSSL < 1.1.0
  • Drivers for SQL Servers must be installed separately since 2.5.0
  • Keys created in XCA databases < 2.0.0 must be converted with XCA < 2.5.0
  • Add Support for Qt6 and OpenSSL 3.x
  • Switch from autotools/qmake to cmake
  • Fix a lot of bugs (and probably added some new)
  • Add translations for Indonesian, Persian and Bulgarian
  • Please report issues on github https://github.com/chris2511/xca/issues

Changelog:

A detailled changelog can be found here:

https://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 
    # Bookworm
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5sql5 libqt5help5 cmake qttools5-dev python3-sphinxcontrib.qthelp
# Bullseye
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@3 qt6 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-3_1_4.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 6.6.0 win64_mingw
aqt install-tool windows desktop tools_mingw90 qt.tools.win64_mingw900
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
    • Install the "vcredist\vcredist_64.exe"
    • 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\mingw_64\bin;
%USERPROFILE%\5.15.2\mingw_64\bin;
    • Create CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable: 
      %USERPROFILE%\6.6.0\mingw_64\lib\cmake
    • Install https://wixtoolset.org/releases/ if you want to create the MSI installer

  • Clone: git clone https://github.com/chris2511/xca.git

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

  • Make: cmake --build build -j5

  • Create the Portable App: cmake --build build -t install

  • Build the MSI installer (and the Portable App): cd build ; cpack

SQL Remote Database Drivers

MySQL plugins are not shipped with QT anymore because of license issues.

Linux

  • Debian: libqt6sql6-psql libqt6sql6-mysql or libqt6sql6-odbc.
  • RPM: libqt6-database-plugin-pgsql libqt6-database-plugin-mysql libqt6-database-plugin-odbc They should pull in all necessary dependencies.

Apple macos

  • PostgreSQL: Install the https://postgresapp.com/
  • ODBC: It requires the /usr/local/opt/libiodbc/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib. When installing unixodbc via brew the library must be symlinked from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libiodbc/3.52.16/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib
  • MariaDB: Probably via ODBC ?

Windows