ARCHIVED - libbson is now maintained in a subdirectory of the libmongoc project: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/tree/master/src/libbson
libbson is a library providing useful routines related to building, parsing, and iterating BSON documents.
The documentation is available at http://mongoc.org/. For issues with, questions about, or feedback for libbson, please look into our support channels. Please do not email any of the libbson developers directly with issues or questions - you're more likely to get an answer on the mongodb-user list on Google Groups.
Think you’ve found a bug? Want to see a new feature in libbson? Please open a case in our issue management tool, JIRA:
- Create an account and login.
- Navigate to the CDRIVER project.
- Click Create Issue - Please provide as much information as possible about the issue type and how to reproduce it.
Bug reports in JIRA for all driver projects (i.e. CDRIVER, CSHARP, JAVA) and the Core Server (i.e. SERVER) project are public.
If you are having difficulty building libbson after reading the below instructions, please email the mongodb-user list to ask for help. Please include in your email all of the following information:
- The version of libbson you are trying to build (branch or tag).
- Examples: master branch, 1.2.1 tag
- Host OS, version, and architecture.
- Examples: Windows 8 64-bit x86, Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit x86, OS X Mavericks
- C Compiler and version.
- Examples: GCC 4.8.2, MSVC 2013 Express, clang 3.4, XCode 5
- The output of
./autogen.shor./configure(depending on whether you are building from a repository checkout or from a tarball). The output starting from "libbson was configured with the following options" is sufficient. - The text of the error you encountered.
Failure to include the relevant information will result in additional round-trip communications to ascertain the necessary details, delaying a useful response.
If you’ve identified a security vulnerability libbson or any other MongoDB project, please report it according to the instructions here.
Detailed installation instructions are in the manual: http://mongoc.org/libbson/current/installing.html