Mosquitto for Windows
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Mosquitto for Windows comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavours.
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In both cases, the dependencies are not provided in this installer and must be
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installed separately in the case that they are not already available.
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Capabilities
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Some versions of Windows have limitations on the number of concurrent
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connections, set at approximately 2048 connections depending on the version of
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Windows you are using.
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Websockets
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The broker executables provided in the installers have Websockets support
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through a statically compiled version of libwebsockets and is being distributed
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under the Static Linking Exception (Section 2) of the License. As a result, the
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content is not subject to the LGPL 2.1.
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Please note that on Windows, libwebsockets limits connections to a maximum of 64 clients.
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Library Thread Support
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libmosquitto on Windows is currently compiled without thread support, so
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neither of mosquitto_loop_start() nor "mosquitto_pub -l" are available.
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A better solution that the old pthreads-win32 is being looked into, so support
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will return in the future. If you need thread support, the code still supports
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it just fine. Support has been dropped to simplify installation.
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Dependencies
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* OpenSSL
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Link: http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
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Install "Win32 OpenSSL 1.1.0* Light" or "Win64 OpenSSL 1.1.0* Light"
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Required DLLs: libssl-1_1.dll, libcrypto-1_1.dll or libssl-1_1-x64.dll, libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll
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Please ensure that the required DLLs are on the system path, or are in the same directory as
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the mosquitto executable - usually C:\Program Files (x86)\mosquitto or C:\Program Files\mosquitto.
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Windows Service
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If you wish, mosquitto can be installed as a Windows service so you can
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start/stop it from the control panel as well as running it as a normal
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executable.
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When running as a service, the configuration file used is mosquitto.conf in the
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directory that you installed to.
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If you want to install/uninstall mosquitto as a Windows service run from the
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command line as follows:
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C:\Program Files\mosquitto\mosquitto install
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C:\Program Files\mosquitto\mosquitto uninstall
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