libcbor - CBOR format implementation

# libcbor

## CBOR format implementation for C & others

## Latest release: v0.4.0

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libcbor is a C library for parsing and generating CBOR, the general-purpose schema-less binary data format.

## Main features

- Complete RFC conformance
- Robust portable C99 implementation
- Layered architecture offers both control and convenience
- Flexible memory management
- Proper handling of UTF-8
- Full support for streams & incremental processing
- Extensive documentation and test suite
- No runtime dependencies, small footprint
- Tested across architectures and operating systems

## A taste of the API

## Distribution

### OS X

    brew tap pjk/libcbor
    brew install libcbor

### Linux

Please refer to the documentation on how to build libcbor.

deb and RPM packages can be built effortlessly using CPack. libcbor also comes with pkg-config support.

### Windows

Windows are supported and tested for. CMake can target both MSVC and Cygwin toolchains. Please refer to the documentation on how to do so.

### Other platforms

As long as CMake and a C99 compiler are available, libcbor will work. Read more here.

## Resources & documentation

- User documentation is available online from http://libcbor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
- Detailed build instructions are a part of the documentation
- API reference is available either online or as a part of the release
- Bug tracker
- Changelog
- Older releases

## Ruby bindings

If you write Ruby, you might be interested in the Ruby bindings for libcbor.

## Licensing

libcbor is distributed under the terms of the MIT license, as found in the source code.

Copyright (c) Pavel Kalvoda, 2014 - 2017