XCA - X Certificate and Key Management

Release Notes

• The latest release is 2.8.0
• Most notable new features:
  • Support for SHA3
  • Name the MS CryptographicServiceProvider in the comment
  • OpenSSL PURPOSE and validation results in the certificate details
  • Support UniveralPrincipalName (UPN) and NameConstraints
  • Support JSON Web Key (JWK) export format
  • Hide unusable (expired / revoked) certificates
• 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 or Qt6: https://www.qt.io (5.10.1 or higher)
• OpenSSL: https://www.openssl.org (1.1.1 or higher)
  or libressl-3.6.x
• Sphinx-Build: https://www.sphinx-doc.org

Linux / Unix

• Install the dependencies

  # Bookworm
  sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config cmake qttools5-dev python3-sphinxcontrib.qthelp
  # Bullseye
  sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config cmake qttools5-dev python3-sphinx
  # Either Qt5
  sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev-tools libqt5sql5 libqt5help5 qttools5-dev
  # Or Qt6
  sudo apt install qt6-base-dev qt6-tools-dev
  

• 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_1_5.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 6.6.3 win64_mingw
    aqt install-tool windows desktop tools_mingw90 qt.tools.win64_mingw900
    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
  • Install the "vcredist\vcredist_64.exe"
  • Add cmake, MinGW, OpenSSL and Qt6 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\mingw_64\bin;
    %USERPROFILE%\6.6.3\mingw_64\bin;
    

  • Create CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable:

    %USERPROFILE%\6.6.3\mingw_64\lib\cmake
    

  • Install https://wixtoolset.org/releases/ if you want to create the MSI installer

• 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

SQL Remote Database Drivers

MySQL plugins are not shipped with QT anymore because of license issues.

Linux

• Debian: libqt6sql6-psql libqt6sql6-mysql or libqt6sql6-odbc.
• RPM: libqt6-database-plugin-pgsql libqt6-database-plugin-mysql libqt6-database-plugin-odbc

They should pull in all necessary dependencies.

Apple macos

• PostgreSQL: Install the https://postgresapp.com/
• ODBC: It requires the /usr/local/opt/libiodbc/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib.
  When installing unixodbc via brew the library must be symlinked from
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libiodbc/3.52.16/lib/libiodbc.2.dylib
• MariaDB: Driver included since XCA 2.8.0

Windows

• PostgreSQL: https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads (Commandline tools).
  Add the bin directory of the Postgres installation directory to your PATH (C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\16)
• ODBC: Use the ODBC Datasources 64bit app to configure the SQL Server
• MariaDB (MySQL): Install the Plugin from here: https://github.com/thecodemonkey86/qt_mysql_driver.
  Select the MinGW variant and install it as documented.