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

yum install git automake autoconf libtool gcc

Debian / Ubuntu

apt-get install git-core automake autoconf libtool gcc

FreeBSD

pkg install git automake autoconf libtool gcc pkgconf

SmartOS

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.

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.

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

From Git

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

You can run the unit tests with

make test

From Tarball

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:

#include <bson.h>

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

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.