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- Mosquitto for Windows
- =====================
- Mosquitto for Windows comes in 64-bit and 32-bit flavours. All dependencies are
- provided in the installer.
- Installing
- ----------
- Running the installer will present the normal type of graphical installer. If
- you want to install without starting the graphical part of the installer, you
- can do so by running it from a cmd prompt with the `/S` switch:
- ```
- mosquitto-2.0.12-install-windows-x64.exe /S
- ```
- You can override the installation directory with the `/D` switch:
- ```
- mosquitto-2.0.12-install-windows-x64.exe /S /D=:\mosquitto
- ```
- Capabilities
- ------------
- Some versions of Windows have limitations on the number of concurrent
- connections due to the Windows API being used. In modern versions of Windows,
- e.g. Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019, this is approximately 8192 connections.
- In earlier versions of Windows, t his limit is 2048 connections.
- Websockets
- ----------
- The broker executables provided in the installers have Websockets support
- through a statically compiled version of libwebsockets and is being distributed
- under the Static Linking Exception (Section 2) of the License. As a result, the
- content is not subject to the LGPL 2.1.
- Library Thread Support
- ----------------------
- libmosquitto on Windows is currently compiled without thread support, so
- neither of mosquitto_loop_start() nor "mosquitto_pub -l" are available.
- A better solution that the old pthreads-win32 is being looked into, so support
- will return in the future. If you need thread support, the code still supports
- it just fine. Support has been dropped to simplify installation.
- Windows Service
- ---------------
- If you wish, mosquitto can be installed as a Windows service so you can
- start/stop it from the control panel as well as running it as a normal
- executable.
- When running as a service, the configuration file used is mosquitto.conf in the
- directory that you installed to.
- If you want to install/uninstall mosquitto as a Windows service run from the
- command line as follows:
- C:\Program Files\mosquitto\mosquitto install
- C:\Program Files\mosquitto\mosquitto uninstall
- Logging
- -------
- If you use `log_dest file ...` in your configuration, the log file will be
- created with security permissions for the current user only. If running as a
- service, this means the SYSTEM user. You will only be able to view the log file
- if you add permissions for yourself or whatever user you wish to view the logs.
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