Download

Stable releases.

The latest stable XML Security Library version is 1.2.37:

• 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 1.0.0 (or later).
• GnuTLS
• Libgcrypt
• NSS (Mozilla cryptographic library).
• Microsoft Crypto API (Windows only)

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 GitHub.

Other languages

• Python xmlsec module
• Perl LibXML-Sec module