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

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You can download and install Jansson using the `vcpkg <https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/>`_ dependency manager:



.. code-block:: bash



    git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

    cd vcpkg

    ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

    ./vcpkg integrate install

    vcpkg install jansson



The Jansson port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please `create an issue or pull request <https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/>`_ on the vcpkg repository.



If you obtained a `source tarball`_ from the "Releases" section of the main

site 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.





.. _Jansson: http://www.digip.org/jansson/

.. _`Comprehensive documentation`: http://jansson.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

.. _`MIT license`: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

.. _`source tarball`: http://www.digip.org/jansson#releases

.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/