The Legacy C++ Driver

The Legacy C++ driver has reached End-Of-Life. Please upgrade to the mongocxx driver.

• Breaking changes from 26compat
• Configuring the legacy driver
• Installing the legacy driver
• Legacy driver tutorial
• Working with BSON

The legacy C++ driver builds on x86 and x86-64 architectures for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris.

The legacy C++ driver library includes a bson package that implements the BSON specification (see http://www.bsonspec.org). This library can be used standalone for object serialization and deserialization even when one is not using MongoDB at all.

Releases of legacy drivers have version numbers like v0.x.y and v1.x.y.

(Note: version numbers like v0.0-26compat-2.x.y refer to a different, deprecated C++ driver branch.)