jq-src

This rust crate will compile and statically link libjq provided by the jq 1.6 release. As per the jq readme, the library is compiled using the built-in oniguruma library for regex support.

For this to succeed, you will have to have autotools (autoreconf, make, etc) and a gcc toolchain in your PATH.

Note that the jq sources are provided as git submodules. These will be fetched automatically when installing this crate from crates.io or using a git dependency, however if you want to hack on the crate locally, or list it as a path dependency, you'll have to fetch the submodules yourself, for example:

$ git submodule update --init --recursive

If building this crate fails because of missing files, it's likely the submodules were not initialized.