1 1.1 christos 2 1.1 christos 3 1.1 christos 4 1.1 christos <!DOCTYPE html> 5 1.1 christos <html lang="en-us"> 6 1.1 christos <head> 7 1.1 christos <meta charset="UTF-8"> 8 1.1 christos <title>libcbor - CBOR format implementation</title> 9 1.1 christos <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> 10 1.1 christos <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/normalize.css" media="screen"> 11 1.1 christos <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:400,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> 12 1.1 christos <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/stylesheet.css" media="screen"> 13 1.1 christos <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/github-light.css" media="screen"> 14 1.1 christos </head> 15 1.1 christos <body> 16 1.1 christos <section class="page-header"> 17 1.1 christos <h1 class="project-name">libcbor</h1> 18 1.1 christos <h2 class="project-tagline">CBOR format implementation for C & others</h2> 19 1.1 christos <h2 class="project-tagline">Latest release: v0.5.0</h2> 20 1.1 christos <a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor" class="btn">View on GitHub</a> 21 1.1 christos <a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor/archive/v0.5.0.tar.gz" class="btn">Download source</a> 22 1.1 christos <a href="http://libcbor.readthedocs.io/en/v0.5.0/using.html" class="btn">Get started</a> 23 1.1 christos </section> 24 1.1 christos 25 1.1 christos <section class="main-content"> 26 1.1 christos 27 1.1 christos 28 1.1 christos <p><strong>libcbor</strong> is a C library for parsing and generating <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049">CBOR</a>, the general-purpose schema-less binary data format.</p> 29 1.1 christos 30 1.1 christos <h2> 31 1.1 christos <a id="main-features" class="anchor" href="#main-features" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Main features</h2> 32 1.1 christos 33 1.1 christos <ul> 34 1.1 christos <li>Complete RFC conformance</li> 35 1.1 christos <li>Robust portable C99 implementation</li> 36 1.1 christos <li>Layered architecture offers both control and convenience</li> 37 1.1 christos <li>Flexible memory management</li> 38 1.1 christos <li>Proper handling of UTF-8</li> 39 1.1 christos <li>Full support for streams & incremental processing</li> 40 1.1 christos <li>Extensive documentation and test suite</li> 41 1.1 christos <li>No runtime dependencies, small footprint</li> 42 1.1 christos <li>Tested across architectures and operating systems</li> 43 1.1 christos </ul> 44 1.1 christos 45 1.1 christos <h2>A taste of the API</h2> 46 1.1 christos <script src="https://gist.github.com/PJK/962a468886d24195d1ee.js"></script> 47 1.1 christos 48 1.1 christos <h2><a id="distrib" class="anchor" href="#distrib" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Distribution</h2> 49 1.1 christos 50 1.1 christos <h3>OS X</h3> 51 1.1 christos <pre><code>brew tap pjk/libcbor 52 1.1 christos brew install libcbor 53 1.1 christos </code></pre> 54 1.1 christos 55 1.1 christos <h3>Linux</h3> 56 1.1 christos <p> 57 1.1 christos Please refer to <a href="http://libcbor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html">the documentation</a> on how to build <i>libcbor</i>. 58 1.1 christos </p> 59 1.1 christos 60 1.1 christos <p> 61 1.1 christos deb and RPM packages can be built effortlessly using <a href="https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/CPack.html">CPack</a>. <i>libcbor</i> also comes with <a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/">pkg-config</a> support</li>. 62 1.1 christos </p> 63 1.1 christos 64 1.1 christos <h3>Windows</h3> 65 1.1 christos <p> 66 1.1 christos Windows are supported and <a href="https://ci.appveyor.com/project/PJK/libcbor">tested for</a>. CMake can target both MSVC and Cygwin toolchains. Please refer to <a href="http://libcbor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html">the documentation</a> on how to do so. 67 1.1 christos </p> 68 1.1 christos 69 1.1 christos <h3>Other platforms</h3> 70 1.1 christos <p> 71 1.1 christos As long as CMake and a C99 compiler are available, <i>libcbor</i> will work. Read more <a href="http://libcbor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html">here</a>. 72 1.1 christos </p> 73 1.1 christos 74 1.1 christos <h2> 75 1.1 christos <a id="documentation" class="anchor" href="#documentation" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Resources & documentation</h2> 76 1.1 christos 77 1.1 christos <ul> 78 1.1 christos <li>User documentation is available online from <a href="http://libcbor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/">http://libcbor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/</a></li> 79 1.1 christos <li>Detailed build instructions are a part of the documentation</li> 80 1.1 christos <li>API reference is available either <a href="doxygen/index.html">online</a> or <a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor/releases/download/v0.5.0/libcbor_api_docs.tar.gz">as a part of the release</a></li> 81 1.1 christos <li><a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor/issues">Bug tracker</a> 82 1.1 christos <li><a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md">Changelog</a> 83 1.1 christos <li><a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor/releases">Older releases</a> 84 1.1 christos </ul> 85 1.1 christos 86 1.1 christos <h2>Ruby bindings</h2> 87 1.1 christos <p>If you write Ruby, you might be interested in the <a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor-ruby">Ruby bindings for <i>libcbor</i></a>.</p> 88 1.1 christos 89 1.1 christos 90 1.1 christos <h2><a id="license" class="anchor" href="#license" aria-hidden="true"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Licensing</h2> 91 1.1 christos 92 1.1 christos <p><i>libcbor</i> is distributed under the terms of the MIT license, as found in the source code.</p> 93 1.1 christos 94 1.1 christos <p>Copyright (c) Pavel Kalvoda, 2014 - 2017</p> 95 1.1 christos 96 1.1 christos <footer class="site-footer"> 97 1.1 christos <span class="site-footer-owner"><a href="https://github.com/PJK/libcbor">libcbor</a> is maintained by <a href="https://github.com/PJK">PJK</a>.</span> 98 1.1 christos <span class="site-footer-credits">This page is based on the <a href="https://github.com/jasonlong/cayman-theme">Cayman theme</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonlong">Jason Long</a>.</span> 99 1.1 christos </footer> 100 1.1 christos 101 1.1 christos </section> 102 1.1 christos 103 1.1 christos <script> 104 1.1 christos (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ 105 1.1 christos (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), 106 1.1 christos m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) 107 1.1 christos })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); 108 1.1 christos 109 1.1 christos ga('create', 'UA-8187884-5', 'auto'); 110 1.1 christos ga('send', 'pageview'); 111 1.1 christos 112 1.1 christos </script> 113 1.1 christos </body> 114 1.1 christos </html> 115
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