Building on Unix with gcc and autotools

If checking out from SVN (http://svn.metaparadigm.com/svn/json-c/trunk) or Git (https://github.com/jehiah/json-c):

    $ sh autogen.sh

Then 

    $ ./configure
    $ make
    $ make install

To build and run the test programs run 

    $ make check

Linking to libjson

If your system has pkgconfig then you can just add this to your makefile

CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags json)
LDFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --libs json)