Building MD4C

Embedding the Parser

When embedding the parser into your application, you need only md4c/md4c.h and md4c/md4c.c. Simply add them to your project.

The only thing to care about is the encoding you want to use.

Build Whole MD4C Package

Building MD4C from the source repository or source package is based on cmake and there should be no surprises. There are no build dependencies (standard C library suffices).

For example, on Linux:

$ cd md4c
$ mkdir build
$ cmake -G ..
$ make

This actually builds the md2html. This utility uses MD4C parser to read a Markdown document and converts it into HTML.

Note the md2html is built with the MD4C's UTF-8 support enabled.