Supported Standards

Standard	RFC	Description
`JWT`	RFC-7519	JSON Web Token
`JWA`	RFC-7518	JSON Web Algorithms
`JWS` and `JWE`	RFC-7518	Specific types of JWA
`JWK`	RFC-7517	JSON Web Key
`JWKS`	RFC-7517	A set of JWK as an array of `"keys"`

Note: Throughout this documentation you will see links such as the ones above to RFC documents. These are relevant to that particular part of the library and are helpful to understand some of the specific standards that shaped the development of LibJWT.

Build Prerequisites

Required

JANSSON (>= 2.0)

One or more of these

OpenSSL (>= 1.1.0)
GnuTLS (>= 3.6.0)

Note: OpenSSL >= 3.0 is required for JWK and JWKS support

Optional

Check Library for unit testing
Doxygen

Docs and Source

Release Docs

Dev (HEAD) Docs

GitHub Repo

Pre-built Packages

LibJWT is available in most Linux distributions as well as through Homebrew.

Build Instructions

With GNU AutoTools:

$ autoreconf -if
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../configure
$ make

With CMake:

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make

Common

If you have libcheck installed, both targets will compile the test suite which you can run using the check target.

Both build systems will auto detect OpenSSL and GnuTLS and use one or both. Each build system has a way to force-enable (error if not found) or force-disable either library. See the Cryptographic Operations section