XMLSec Library

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

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:

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 from a release tarball, run the following commands:

gunzip -c xmlsec1-<version>.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd xmlsec1-<version>
./configure [possible configure options]
make
make check
make install

To see the configuration options, run:

./configure --help

To build from GitHub, run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec.git
cd xmlsec
./autogen.sh [possible configure options]
make
make check
make install

Building XMLSec on Windows

See win32/README.md for details.