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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 source tarball, just use the standard autotools
commands::
$ ./configure && make && make install
If the source has been checked out from a Git repository, the
./configure script has to be generated fist. The easiest way is to use
autoreconf::
$ autoreconf -i
To run the test suite, invoke::
$ make check
Python_ is required to run the tests.
Documentation
-------------
Documentation is in the ``doc/`` subdirectory. It's written in
reStructuredText_ with Sphinx_ annotations, so reading it in plain may
be inconvenient. For this reason, prebuilt HTML documentation is
available at http://www.digip.org/jansson/doc/.
To generate HTML documentation yourself, invoke::
make html
and point your browser to ``doc/_build/html/index.html``. Sphinx_ is
required to generate the documentation.
.. _Jansson: http://www.digip.org/jansson/
.. _`MIT license`: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/