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This makes the standard build instructions a bit easier, just ./configure, and also requires less tools installed (bison). Also i think few people probably want to generate the lexer and paser code.
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jq
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==
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jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.
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If you want to learn to use jq, read the documentation at
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[https://jqlang.github.io/jq](https://jqlang.github.io/jq). This
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documentation is generated from the docs/ folder of this repository.
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You can also try it online at [jqplay.org](https://jqplay.org).
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If you want to hack on jq, feel free, but be warned that its internals
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are not well-documented at the moment. Bring a hard hat and a
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shovel. Also, read the wiki: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/wiki, where
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you will find cookbooks, discussion of advanced topics, internals,
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release engineering, and more.
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Source tarball and built executable releases can be found on the
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homepage and on the github release page, https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases.
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Docker image is available at https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pkgs/container/jq.
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If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need libtool, make, automake,
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and autoconf installed.
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To get regexp support you'll also need to install Oniguruma or clone it as a
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git submodule as per the instructions below. To build, run:
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git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma
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autoreconf -i # if building from git
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./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin
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make -j8
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make check
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Developers must `--enable-maintainer-mode` when making changes to the
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jq parser and lexer which also requires bison and flex to be installed.
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To build a statically linked version of jq, run:
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make LDFLAGS=-all-static
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After make finishes, you'll be able to use `./jq`. You can also
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install it using:
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sudo make install
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If you're not using the latest git version but instead building a
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released tarball (available on the website), then you won't need to
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run `autoreconf` (and shouldn't), and you won't need flex or bison.
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To cross-compile for OS X and Windows, see docs/Rakefile's build task
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and scripts/crosscompile. You'll need a cross-compilation environment,
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such as Mingw for cross-compiling for Windows.
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Cross-compilation requires a clean workspace, then:
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# git clean ...
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autoreconf -i
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./configure
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make distclean
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scripts/crosscompile <name-of-build> <configure-options>
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Use the `--host=` and `--target=` ./configure options to select a
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cross-compilation environment. See also
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["Cross compilation"](https://github.com/jqlang/jq/wiki/Cross-compilation) on
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the wiki.
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To compile jq to WebAssembly, install the [Emscripten SDK](https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html), then:
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git submodule update --init # if building from git to get oniguruma
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autoreconf -i # if building from git
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emconfigure ./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin
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emmake make EXEEXT=.js CFLAGS="-O2" LDFLAGS="-s EXPORTED_RUNTIME_METHODS=['callMain']"
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# Community
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* Send questions to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/jq.
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* Join our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/yg6yjNmgAC).
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