Installing_C++_Agent_on_Windows.md

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Installing C++ Agent on Windows	Build, install, configure and run MTConnect C++ Agent on Windows.	true	2024-09-09 14:14:39 UTC		markdown	2022-06-01 12:39:42 UTC

Overview

Installation procedure for running MTConnect Agent on Windows.

Windows Binary Release

The windows binary releases come with a prebuilt exe that is statically linked with the Microsoft Runtime libraries.

Aside from the standard system libraries, the agent only requires winsock libraries. The agent has been test with version of Windows 2000 and later.

You can download the C++ Agent toolkit - Pre-built binaries here: C++ Agent Windows Binaries

Building on Windows

If instead of using the pre built binaries you would like to build the Agent yourself on Windows then follow this section.

The MTConnect Agent uses the conan package manager to install dependencies:

python 3 and Conan Package Manager Downloads

Download the Windows installer for your platform and run the installer.

You also need git and ruby if you want to embed mruby.

CMake is installed as part of Visual Studio. If you are using Visual Studio for the build, use the bundled version. Otherwise download from CMake.

Setting up build

Install dependencies from the downloads above. Make sure python, ruby, and cmake are in your path.

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install conan

Clone the agent to another directory:

git clone https://github.com/mtconnect/cppagent.git

Make a build subdirectory of cppagent

cd cppagent
conan export conan\mqtt_cpp
conan export conan\mruby

To build for 64 bit Windows

Make sure to setup the environment For VS 2022:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"
conan build . --build=missing -pr conan/profiles/vs64 
OR
conan build . --build=missing -pr conan/profiles/vs64debug

or

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"	
conan build . --build=missing -pr conan/profiles/vs64
OR
conan build . --build=missing -pr conan/profiles/vs64debug

To build for 32 bit Windows

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"
conan build . --build=missing -pr conan/profiles/vs32 

To build for Windows XP

The windows XP 140 XP toolchain needs to be installed under individual component in the Visual Studio 2022 installer.

conan install . --build=missing -pr conan/profiles/vsxp

Package the release

cpack -G ZIP