Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 2021-04-13

Chapter 9. General Libraries

JSON-GLib-1.6.2

Introduction to JSON GLib

The JSON GLib package is a library providing serialization and deserialization support for the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format described by RFC 4627.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Package Information

JSON-GLib Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.68.1

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

gobject-introspection-1.68.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/json-glib

Installation of JSON GLib

Install JSON GLib by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: json-glib-format and json-glib-validate
Installed Library: libjson-glib-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share/installed-tests}/json-glib-1.0, /usr/libexec/installed-tests/json-glib-1.6.2, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/json-glib

Short Descriptions

json-glib-format

is a simple command line interface to format JSON data

json-glib-validate

is a simple command line interface to validate JSON data

libjson-glib-1.0.so

contains the JSON GLib API functions

Last updated on 2021-02-21 13:05:24 -0600