BUILDING.md

YAJL build system is basaed on CMake.

1. Chose and create a nice directory to store the intermediate build files.
2. Execute cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./install -D GENERATE_DOCUMENTATION=ON path/to/yajl/root/dir;
   • -G"Unix Makefiles" tells cmake to generate makefiles, other generators are available depending on your platform,
   • -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./install specify the installation directory to ./install,
   • -D GENERATE_DOCUMENTATION=ON specify to not generate the documentation if doxygen is found,
   • path/to/yajl/root/dir tells cmake where it will find the root CMakeLists.txt it will build.
3. Build YAJL library and tests using your chosen build system, e.g. make all.
4. Execute ctest -V to launch the tests.
5. Execute make install to generate the package to the specified install directory.
6. Execute cpack to generate the .tgz package.

PS. obviously you can also use CMake via its gui.