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 source tarball, 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
.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
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