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Brief description
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A user-friendly and object-oriented API for reading and writing JSON files, written in
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modern Fortran. The source code is a single Fortran module file ([json_module.F90](https://github.com/jacobwilliams/json-fortran/blob/master/src/json_module.F90)).
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A user-friendly, thread-safe, and object-oriented API for reading and writing [JSON](http://json.org) files, written in
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modern Fortran.
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[top](#json-fortran)
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brew install --with-unicode-support json-fortran
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_Please note_, if you wish to support usage of json-fortran with
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_Please note_, if you wish to support usage of JSON-Fortran with
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multiple Fortran compilers, please follow the CMake installation
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instructions below, as the homebrew installation is only intended to
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support a single Fortran compiler. Cheers!
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Currently, several ways are provided to build the jsonfortran library
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* A build script, `build.sh` is provided in the project root directory. This script uses [FoBiS](https://github.com/szaghi/FoBiS) to build the json-fortran library and the unit tests. Edit the script to use either the [Intel Fortran Compiler](https://software.intel.com/en-us/fortran-compilers) or [Gfortran](https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran). Note that version 1.2.5 of FoBiS (or later) is required.
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* A build script, `build.sh` is provided in the project root directory. This script uses [FoBiS](https://github.com/szaghi/FoBiS) to build the JSON-Fortran library and the unit tests. Edit the script to use either the [Intel Fortran Compiler](https://software.intel.com/en-us/fortran-compilers) or [Gfortran](https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran). Note that version 1.2.5 of FoBiS (or later) is required.
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* A [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com) project is included for building the library (and unit tests) on Windows with the Intel Fortran Compiler. The project has been tested with Visual Studio 2010 and 2013.
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using the Intel Fortran Compiler, gfortran 4.9, and NAG Fortran 6.0. It has not been
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tested on Windows. This CMake based build provides an install target,
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and exports from both the install location and the build location so
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that building and using json-fortran in another CMake based project is
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that building and using JSON-Fortran in another CMake based project is
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trivial. To get started with the CMake based build, set the
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environment variable `FC` to point to your Fortran compiler, and
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create a build directory. Then `(cmake-gui|ccmake|cmake)
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/path/to/json-fortran-root` to configure, `make` to build and `make
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install` to optionally install. As long as the project is built with
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CMake, other CMake projects can find it and link against it. For example,
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if you have a second copy of the json-fortran project tree, and want to build the unit tests
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if you have a second copy of the JSON-Fortran project tree, and want to build the unit tests
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```CMake
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License
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The json-fortran source code and related files and documentation are distributed under a permissive free software license (BSD-style). See the [LICENSE](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacobwilliams/json-fortran/master/LICENSE) file for more details.
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The JSON-Fortran source code and related files and documentation are distributed under a permissive free software license (BSD-style). See the [LICENSE](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacobwilliams/json-fortran/master/LICENSE) file for more details.
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Miscellaneous
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* This code is a fork and extensive upgrade of the Fortran 95 [FSON](https://github.com/josephalevin/fson) code. The reason for the split was to be able to incorporate object-oriented and other nice features of the Fortran 2003 and 2008 standards. Many thanks to the original authors of FSON.
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* JSON-Fortran is a fork and extensive upgrade of the Fortran 95 [FSON](https://github.com/josephalevin/fson) code. The reason for the split was to be able to incorporate object-oriented and other nice features of the Fortran 2003 and 2008 standards. Many thanks to the original authors of FSON.
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* For more information about JSON, see: <http://www.json.org/>
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* [json-fortran on Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/jacobwilliams/json-fortran)
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* [json-fortran on Waffle.IO](https://waffle.io/jacobwilliams/json-fortran)

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