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

Main features

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

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 - <%= Time.now.year %>