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@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@ shovel. Also, read the wiki: http://github.com/stedolan/jq/wiki
If you're building directly from the latest git, you'll need flex,
bison, libtool, make, autoconf and libonig installed. To build, run:
- autoreconf -i
+ autoreconf -i # if building from git
./configure
make -j8
make check
+To build a statically linked version of jq, run:
+
+ make LDFLAGS=-all-static
+
After make finishes, you'll be able to use `./jq`. You can also
install it using:
@@ -33,3 +37,13 @@ To cross-compile for OS X and Windows, see docs/Rakefile's build task
and scripts/crosscompile. You'll need a cross-compilation environment,
such as Mingw for cross-compiling for Windows.
+Cross-compilation requires a clean workspace, then:
+
+ # git clean ...
+ autoreconf -i
+ ./configure
+ make distclean
+ scripts/crosscompile <name-of-build> <configure-options>
+
+Use the --host= and --target= ./configure options to select a
+cross-compilation environment. See the wiki.