* Introduction: JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It can represent integer, real number, string, an ordered sequence of value, and a collection of name/value pairs. JsonCpp is a simple API to manipulate JSON value, and handle serialization and unserialization to string. It can also preserve existing comment in unserialization/serialization steps, making it a convenient format to store user input files. Unserialization parsing is user friendly and provides precise error reports. * Building/Testing: JsonCpp uses Scons (http://www.scons.org) as a build system. Scons requires python to be installed (http://www.python.org). You download scons-local distribution from the following url: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30337&package_id=67375 Unzip it in the directory where you found this README file. scons.py Should be at the same level as README. python scons.py platform=PLTFRM [TARGET] where PLTFRM may be one of: suncc Sun C++ (Solaris) vacpp Visual Age C++ (AIX) mingw msvc6 Microsoft Visual Studio 6 service pack 5-6 msvc70 Microsoft Visual Studio 2002 msvc71 Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 msvc80 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 linux-gcc Gnu C++ (linux, also reported to work for Mac OS X) adding platform is fairly simple. You need to change the Sconstruct file to do so. and TARGET may be: check: build library and run unit tests. doc: build documentation doc-dist: build documentation tarball