Building XMLSec

Building XMLSec

XMLSec source code can be built for Linux on z Systems running RHEL 7.1/6.6, SLES 12/11 and Ubuntu 16.04 by following these instructions. Version 1.2.22 has been successfully built & tested this way.

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

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

For SLES 12

sudo zypper install git-core gcc make libtool libxslt-devel libopenssl-devel-1.0.1i-2.12.s390x

For RHEL 6.6

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

For SLES 11

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/

2. Download XMLSec source code

cd /<source_root>/
git clone https://github.com/lsh123/xmlsec.git
cd xmlsec
git checkout xmlsec-1_2_22

3. Generate and then run the configuration

./autogen.sh

4. Build and (optionally) test

make

5. 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