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Chapter 2. General Libraries

cJSON-1.7.19

Introduction to cJSON

The cJSON (not to be confused with JSON-C which fulfills the same purpose but with a different API) package provides a light-weight JSON parser ibrary in C.

Additional Downloads

cJSON Dependencies

Recommended

CMake

Installation of cJSON

Apply a patch to fix several security vulnerabilties and other issues: 

patch -Np1 -i ../cJSON-1.7.19-upstream_fixes-1.patch

Install cJSON by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr   \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release    \
      -G Ninja .. &&
ninja

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libcjson
Installed Directories: /usr/include/cjson and /usr/lib/cmake/cJSON

Short Descriptions

libcjson

provides functions that can parse JSON