Jansson README
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
- Issue tracker
- Mailing list
- Wiki contains some development documentation