Download

Stable releases.

The latest stable XML Security Library version is 1.2.18:

• Sources for latest version.
• Windows binaries for XMLSec Library (as well as LibXML2, LibXSLT and OpenSSL) from Igor Zlatkovic.
• XMLSec Library is included as part of Debian GNU/Linux. For more information see the coordination page.
• XMLSec Library FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports.

The previous releases are also available.

Requirements

The XML Security Library requires:

• LibXML
• LibXSLT (optional)

and one of the following cryptographic libraries:

• OpenSSL version 0.9.8 (it also should work with 0.9.7 and 0.9.6 but some features would be disabled).
• GnuTLS
• Libgcrypt
• NSS - Mozilla cryptographic library.

Installation (source archive)

All steps are usual:

gunzip -c xmlsec1-xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd xmlsec1-xxxx
./configure --help
./configure [possible options]
make
make install
make check

The last step is optional and requires Internet connection to execute some tests.

GIT

XML Security Library is available from the Gnome GIT (the module name is xmlsec). The online XMLSec source browser is also available.