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 Using JsonCpp in your project
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-The recommended approach to integrating JsonCpp in your project is to build the
+The recommended approach to integrating JsonCpp in your project is to build
 the amalgamated source (a single `.cpp` file) with your own build system. This
 ensures consistency of compilation flags and ABI compatibility. See the section
 "Generating amalgamated source and header" for instructions.