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.
$ git clone git://github.com/json-c/json-c.git
Compiling latest version of json-c
Check the latest branch available using “git branch -r” command and checkout to this branch as,
$ cd json-c
$ git branch -r
$ git checkout -b json-c-0.14 origin/json-c-0.14
$ mkdir build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=build .
Above commands compiles json-c which can be installed in a “build” directory as,
$ make all test install
You can see it got compiled and installed as,
$ tree build/ build/ ├── include │ └── json-c │ ├── arraylist.h │ ├── debug.h │ ├── json_config.h │ ├── json_c_version.h │ ├── json.h │ ├── json_inttypes.h │ ├── json_object.h │ ├── json_object_iterator.h │ ├── json_pointer.h │ ├── json_tokener.h │ ├── json_types.h │ ├── json_util.h │ ├── json_visit.h │ ├── linkhash.h │ └── printbuf.h └── lib ├── cmake │ └── json-c │ ├── json-c-config.cmake │ ├── json-c-targets.cmake │ └── json-c-targets-debug.cmake ├── libjson-c.so -> libjson-c.so.5 ├── libjson-c.so.5 -> libjson-c.so.5.0.0 ├── libjson-c.so.5.0.0 └── pkgconfig └── json-c.pc
Compiling 0.12 version and earlier versions
$ git checkout -b json-c-0.12 origin/json-c-0.12
$ mkdir build
$ sudo apt-get install libtool
$ libtoolize
$ aclocal
$ autoheader
$ ./configure --prefix=./build
$ make
$ make install