Libbson

libbson is a library providing useful routines related to building, parsing, and iterating BSON documents. It is a useful base for those wanting to write high-performance C extensions to higher level languages such as python, ruby, or perl.

Building

Libbson tries to support a variety of operation systems and architectures. The following are known to work. If your platform is not listed here, it may still work, we simply haven't tested it. If you would like us to add your platform here, we would be happy to hear from you.

Supported Operating Systems

• RHEL/CentOS 5, 6, 7beta
• SLES 11 SP3
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Debian 7
• SmartOS
• Solaris
• FreeBSD 10
• Windows Vista, 7, 8

Supported Architectures

• x86
• x86_64/amd64
• SPARC
• ARM
• PowerPC

Supported Compilers

• GCC 4.1 and newer
• Clang 3.3 and newer
• Visual Studio (MSVC) 2010 and newer
• Oracle Solaris Studio (5.7 and newer, Solaris 10)

Dependencies

Fedora / RedHat Enterprise / CentOS

sh yum install git automake autoconf libtool gcc

Debian / Ubuntu

sh apt-get install git-core automake autoconf libtool gcc

FreeBSD

sh pkg install git automake autoconf libtool gcc pkgconf

SmartOS

sh pkgin install git automake autoconf libtool gcc47 gmake pkg-config export PATH=/opt/local/gcc47/bin:$PATH

Windows Vista and Higher

Builds on Windows Vista and Higher require cmake to build Visual Studio project files. Alternatively, you can use cygwin or mingw with the automake based build.

sh git clone git://github.com/mongodb/libbson.git cd libbson cmake.exe -G "Visual Studio 10 Win64" "-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\install\path" msbuild.exe ALL_BUILD.vcxproj msbuild.exe INSTALL.vcxproj

For the adventurous, you can cross-compile for Windows from Fedora easily using mingw.

sh sudo yum install mingw64-gcc automake autoconf libtool ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32

From Git

sh git clone git://github.com/mongodb/libbson.git cd libbson/ ./autogen.sh make sudo make install

You can run the unit tests with

sh make test

From Tarball

sh tar xzf libbson-$ver.tar.gz ./configure make sudo make install

Configuration Options

You may be interested in the following options for ./configure. These are not availble when using the alternate CMake build system.

``` --help Show all possible help options. There are many more than those displayed here.

--enable-optimizations Enable various compile and link optimizations. --enable-debug Enable debugging features. --enable-debug-symbols Link with debug symbols in tact. --enable-hardening Enable stack protector and other hardening features. --enable-silent-rules Force silent rules like the Linux kernel. --enable-coverage Compile with gcov support. --enable-static Build static archives (.a). ```

Developing using libbson

In your source code:

```c

include

```

To get the include path and libraries appropriate for your system.

sh gcc my_program.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libbson-1.0)

Examples

See the examples/ directory for how to use the libbson library in your application.

Documentation

See the doc/ directory for documentation on individual types.

Bug reports and Feature requests

Please use the MongoDB C Driver JIRA project to report bugs or request features.