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+json-c
+======
+
+Building on Unix with git, gcc and autotools
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Home page for json-c: https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki
+
+Caution: do **NOT** use sources from svn.metaparadigm.com, they are old.
+
+Prerequisites:
+
+ - `gcc`, `clang`, or another C compiler
+ - `libtool`
+
+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.
+
+Github repo for json-c: https://github.com/json-c/json-c
+
+```bash
+$ git clone https://github.com/json-c/json-c.git
+$ cd json-c
+$ sh autogen.sh
+```
+
+followed by
+
+```bash
+$ ./configure
+$ make
+$ make install
+```
+
+To build and run the test programs:
+
+```bash
+    $ make check
+```
+
+Linking to libjson-c
+--------------------
+
+If your system has pkgconfig,
+then you can just add this to your makefile:
+
+```make
+CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags json-c)
+LDFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --libs json-c)
+```
+
+Without pkgconfig, you would do something like this:
+
+```make
+JSON_C_DIR=/path/to/json_c/install
+CFLAGS += -I$(JSON_C_DIR)/include/json-c
+LDFLAGS+= -L$(JSON_C_DIR)/lib -ljson-c
+```