JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C, output them as JSON formatted strings and parse JSON formatted strings back into the C representation of JSON objects. It aims to conform to RFC 7159
Home page for json-c: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
Prerequisites:
gcc
,clang
, or another C compilerlibtool
If you're not using a release tarball, you'll also need:
autoconf
(autoreconf
)automake
Make sure you have a complete libtool
install, including libtoolize
.
json-c
GitHub repo: https://github.com/json-c/json-c
$ git clone https://github.com/json-c/json-c.git
$ cd json-c
$ sh autogen.sh
followed by
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
To build and run the test programs:
$ make check
If your system has pkgconfig
,
then you can just add this to your makefile
:
CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags json-c)
LDFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --libs json-c)
Without pkgconfig
, you would do something like this:
JSON_C_DIR=/path/to/json_c/install
CFLAGS += -I$(JSON_C_DIR)/include/json-c
LDFLAGS+= -L$(JSON_C_DIR)/lib -ljson-c