Jansson README

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Jansson_ is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data. Its main features and design principles are:

• Simple and intuitive API and data model

• Comprehensive documentation_

• No dependencies on other libraries

• Full Unicode support (UTF-8)

• Extensive test suite

Jansson is licensed under the MIT license_; see LICENSE in the source distribution for details.

Compilation and Installation

If you obtained a jansson-X.Y.tar.* tarball from GitHub Releases, just use the standard autotools commands::

$ ./configure $ make $ make install

To run the test suite, invoke::

$ make check

If the source has been checked out from a Git repository, the configure script has to be generated first. The easiest way is to use autoreconf::

$ autoreconf -i

Documentation

Documentation is available at http://jansson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

The documentation source is in the doc/ subdirectory. To generate HTML documentation, invoke::

$ make html

Then, point your browser to doc/_build/html/index.html. Sphinx_ 1.0 or newer is required to generate the documentation.

Community

• Documentation <http://jansson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>_
• Issue tracker <https://github.com/akheron/jansson/issues>_
• Mailing list <http://groups.google.com/group/jansson-users>_
• Wiki <https://github.com/akheron/jansson/wiki>_ contains some development documentation

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