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Gary Liu edited this page Oct 26, 2016 · 50 revisions

Building XMLSec

Below versions of XMLSec are available in respective distributions:

  • RHEL 6.7 has 1.2.20
  • RHEL 7.1/7.2 has 1.2.20
  • Ubuntu 16.04 has 1.2.20

The instructions provided below specify the steps to build XMLSec 1.2.22 on Linux on the IBM z Systems for RHEL 6.7/7.1/7.2, SLES 11-SP3/12/12-SP1 and Ubuntu 16.04.

General Notes:

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

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

Building XMLSec

Obtain pre-built dependencies

  1. Use the following commands to obtain dependencies

For RHEL 7.1/7.2

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

For SLES 12/12-SP1

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

For RHEL 6.7

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

For SLES 11-SP3

sudo zypper install tar pkg-config autoconf automake git-core gcc make libtool libxslt-devel

For Ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git make libtool libtool-bin libxslt1-dev autoconf libxmlsec1-dev

Product Build - XMLSec

  1. Create a working directory with write permission to use as an installation workspace (Referred to as /<source_root>/ from this point on) :
  mkdir /source_root/
  cd /source_root/
  1. Download XMLSec source code
cd /<source_root>/
git clone https://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec.git
cd xmlsec
git checkout xmlsec-1_2_22
  1. Generate and then run the configuration
./autogen.sh
  1. Build and (optionally) test
make
  1. Install XMLSec and verify the installation
sudo make install
make check

Note: If the following error is shown, set the environment variable "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to path of XMLSec binaries e.g. export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

xmlsec1: error while loading shared libraries: libxmlsec1.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

or

xmlsec1: symbol lookup error: xmlsec1: undefined symbol: xmlSecGetDefaultCrypto

References

https://github.com/GNOME/xmlsec

The information provided in this article is accurate at the time of writing, but on-going development in the open-source projects involved may make the information incorrect or obsolete. Please open issue or contact us on IBM Z Community if you have any questions or feedback.

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