MessagePack is an efficient binary serialisation format that lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON. Versions later than 3.3.0 have separate C and C++ implementations. This slackbuild builds only the C implementation of MessagePack. If you need also the C++ implementation you have to build and install the package msgpack-c-cpp even. Both packages can coexist. Note: msgpack-c-c conflicts with the old msgpack-c package, that implements both C and C++ but is based on old outdated release of msgpack-c. If you have msgpack-c version 3.3.0 in your system, please remove it before installing these package. This slackbuild is experimental because some slackbuilds that require msgpack-c should be updated. If your installed packages work still with the old msgpack-c for version 3.3.0, you should kept it.