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:

http://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-sphinx

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 qt5 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-1_1_1m.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 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
Build the MSI installer: cd build && cpack

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