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
- Unix and Windows support
Jansson is licensed under the MIT license; see LICENSE in the source distribution for details.
If you obtained a source tarball, just use the standard cmake commands:
$ mkdir build && cd build $ cmake .. $ ccmake . # optional; use this to change the build settings $ make install
To run the test suite, invoke:
$ make check
Prebuilt HTML documentation is available at http://www.digip.org/jansson/doc/.
To generate HTML documentation, invoke:
$ make doc
Then, point your browser to html/index.html. Sphinx
1.0 or newer is required to generate the documentation.