Eclipse-Paho-Cpp-Windows-Tutorial

Tutorial on Eclipse Paho C++ wrapper Tested on Visual Studios 2017

Purpose

This tutorial may come in handy to anyone who needs to install the Eclipse Paho C++ wrapper on Windows. The official ReadMe for the C++ wrapper was slightly vague for Windows so I thought my experience in setting it up might help somebody. This may also help those who need help setting up Paho C as well, since the C++ wrapper is dependent on the Paho C library.

Software

1. Visual Studios 2017
2. CMAKE
3. Paho C
4. Paho C++

Paho C

1. Download Paho C
2. Unzip the files in a location of your choice (Documents, Downloads, ect.)
3. Inside Paho.mqtt.c-master you will see another Paho.mqtt.c-master

• Remove the internal Paho.mqtt.c-master from the folder and place it somewhere else temporarily
• You can discard the empty Paho.mqtt.c-master and place back your folder to initial location

4. Open CMAKE
5. Under "Where is the source code located": browse source to your Paho.mqtt.c-master folder

• Ex: /Desktop/test/paho.mqtt.c-master/

6. Under "Where to build the binaries" add a "/build

• Ex: /Desktop/test/paho.mqtt.c-master/build

7. Hit Configure

• After, under the "Red highlighted text" click on samples

8. Hit Generate