XCA -- X Certificate and Key Management

Release Notes

• The latest release is 2.4.0
• Most notable changes
• • Add support for Ed25519 keys
• • Add commandline support (e.g. generate CRL)
• Fix a lot of bugs
• Since version 2 of XCA the database format changed to SQL Don't try to open it with older versions of XCA (< 1.4.0). They will corrupt the database.
• 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:

• a toolchain
• cmake: https://cmake.org
• Qt5: https://www.qt.io
• OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org (1.1.1 or higher)
• Sphinx-Build: https://www.sphinx-doc.org

Linux / Unix

• Install the dependencies

  sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5sql5 libqt5help5 cmake qttools5-dev python3-sphinxcontrib.qthelp
  

• 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_0_8.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 5.15.2 win64_mingw81
    aqt install-tool windows desktop tools_cmake qt.tools.cmake.win64
    aqt install-tool windows desktop tools_mingw qt.tools.win64\_mingw810
    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
  • 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\mingw810_64\bin;
    %USERPROFILE%\5.15.2\mingw81_64\bin;
    

  • Create Qt5_DIR environment variable:

    %USERPROFILE%\5.15.2\mingw81_64\lib\cmake
    

  • Install https://wixtoolset.org/releases/ if you want to create the MSI installer
  • Optional for the remote database connections:
    • MySQL: qsqlmysql.dll_Qt_SQL_driver_5.15.2_MinGW_8.1.0_64-bit.zip from https://github.com/thecodemonkey86/qt_mysql_driver
    • PostgreSQL: postgresql-14.1-1-windows-x64.exe

• 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