Building XMLSec

Building XMLSec

Below versions of XMLSec are available in respective distributions:

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9) has 1.2.20
• RHEL (8.1, 8.2, 8.3) has 1.2.25
• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2) has 1.2.28
• Ubuntu 18.04 has 1.2.25
• Ubuntu (20.04, 20.10) has 1.2.28

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build XMLSec 1.2.30 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)
• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2)
• Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04, 20.10)

General Notes:

• When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

• A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it

Step 1: Building and Installing XMLSec

1) Install dependencies

• RHEL (7.8, 7.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3)

  sudo yum install git make libtool libxslt-devel libtool-ltdl-devel    

• SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP1, 15 SP2)

  sudo zypper install git-core gcc make libtool libxslt-devel libopenssl-devel

• Ubuntu (18.04, 20.04, 20.10)

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install git make libtool libxslt1-dev autoconf libssl-dev libtool-bin pkg-config

2) Get the source code

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  cd /<source_root>/
  git clone git://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec.git
  cd xmlsec
  git checkout xmlsec-1_2_30

3) Generate and then run the configuration

  ./autogen.sh

4) Build and (optionally) test

  make
  make check

5) Install XMLSec and verify the installation

  sudo make install
  xmlsec1 --version

References:

https://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/
https://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec