build.zig for json-c

Provides a package to be used by the zig package manager for C programs.

Status

For now the hard-coded config assumes linux.

Refname	json-c version	Zig 0.12.x	Zig 0.13.x	Zig 0.14.0-dev
0.17	json-c-0.17-20230812	✅	✅	✅
0.18	json-c-0.18-20240915	✅	✅	✅

Use

Add the dependency in your build.zig.zon by running the following command:

zig fetch --save git+https://github.com/allyourcodebase/json-c#0.18

Then, in your build.zig:

const jsonc = b.dependency("json-c", { .target = target, .optimize = optimize });
const libjsonc = jsonc.artifact("json-c");
// wherever needed:
exe.linkLibrary(libjsonc);