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Re: [paho-dev] Building the C++ API/samples
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Unfortunately, no. I haven't looked to automated tests yet. The C++ 
update is mainly for completing some of the missing implementation, and 
so far will cover:
- Better implementation of exceptions
- Bug fixes
- More complete doxygen documentation (mostly stolen from the Javadoc's)
- Better Windows support
- Tested against the latest C lib
- autoconf build support for Linux especially for cross-compiling 
(probably cover the C lib sources as well)
- Boost support for pre-C++-11 compilers (maybe)
- Tested on several open hardware platforms, including RaspberryPi and 
BeagleBone
As I may have mentioned a while back, my personal area for MQTT is 
industrial embedded systems and data loggers. So the Boost support is 
becoming a personal need, as several of the embedded boards I'm facing 
use GCC in the v4.1-4.5 range.  That also sparked the desire for easy 
Linux cross-compiler support that autoconf would bring. The open 
platforms are not industrial quality, but serve as a good proxy for 
porting the software.
Frank
On 11/14/2013 11:06 AM, Ian Craggs wrote:
What's in the update?  Automated tests? :-)
I haven't been able to use it yet due to the lack of a C++11 compiler 
on the machines I've tried so far.
Ian
On 14/11/13 14:20, Frank Pagliughi wrote:
Sounds good. I have been working on an update - though, admittedly, a 
bit slowly.  I'd appreciate any feedback.
Frank
On 11/13/2013 04:24 PM, Ian Craggs wrote:
Frank,
I am happy with that approach.  It's nice to be able to use recent 
language features without having to wait 5 or 6 years! And as you 
say, we have the C library to fall back on - after all, the C 
library is C rather than C++ because template support just didn't 
work in gcc when I started writing the first implementation.
Making it Boost compatible is up to you.  Personally I'm more 
interested in automated build and tests.  And we obviously ought to 
make it clear in big letters that it needs C++11 and what the 
options are otherwise.
What I would say is that I think before making the C++ library a 
"first class" citizen of Paho, we would have to wait until we can 
build and test it for Linux at least in the Eclipse build 
infrastructure.   I'll probably raise a(nother) bug request and see 
how that goes down!  (I already have a bug open on Windows/Mac 
builds which is an ongoing discussion).
Now I'll dig out my own machine with a recent Linux OS on it...
Ian
On 13/11/13 18:53, Frank Pagliughi wrote:
Hello Ian,
Yes, several people asked me about this, particularly people stuck 
with an older cross-compiler for an embedded system. Including me, 
as it turns out! The earliest GCC I suspect that would work is 4.6. 
For Windows, DevStudio 2012 is needed (though I still have to do 
more testing on Windows to be sure this works properly).
The implementation makes heavy use of the C++11 libraries - 
threads, sync objects, time (chrono), and shared pointers. When we 
discussed this prior to my submission last spring, everyone seemed 
OK to proceed along these lines as we could "look forward" with the 
C++ implementation, since people could fall back to the C library 
if necessary.
I was, however, going to investigate using Boost for older 
compilers - so Boost would *not* be needed (at all) for a C++11 
compiler, but could be used for an older compiler. It has nearly 
drop-in replacements for threading, time/chrono, and shared pointer 
libraries. I would still need to change/remove a few of the new 
language features (nullptr, noexcept, etc).
But without using Boost, the required changes/additions would be a 
lot of work.
To be clear, we would not need to ship any boost code (no licensing 
issues), but anyone with GCC <= 4.5 or VisualStudio <= 2010, could 
still use the Paho C++ library with Boost as an external 
requirement. And since Boost can be cross-compiled easily enough, 
this is a viable solution for embedded cross-compiled targets.
What do you think of that?
Frank
On 11/13/2013 11:27 AM, Ian Craggs wrote:
Hi Frank,
trying to build the C++ samples on my RedHat workstation, I get 
the output included below. At least the first one is presumably 
due to the older version of gcc installed (4.4.7-3) - I haven't 
looked at the rest yet. But the version of gcc installed on at 
least one of the Eclipse build servers is older than that (4.3.4).
Should/could we have a solution for pre C++11 compilers?
Ian
g++ -I.. -I../../../org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.c/src -D_NDEBUG -Wall 
-std=c++0x -O2 -o async_publish async_publish.cpp -L../lib 
-L../../../org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.c/src/linux_ia64 -lmqttpp -lmqttv3a
In file included from ../mqtt/token.h:32,
from ../mqtt/async_client.h:31,
from async_publish.cpp:23:
../mqtt/exception.h:73: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘noexcept’
../mqtt/exception.h:76: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘}’ token
In file included from ../mqtt/async_client.h:31,
from async_publish.cpp:23:
../mqtt/token.h: In member function ‘bool 
mqtt::token::wait_until_completion(const 
std::chrono::time_point<_Clock, _Duration1>&)’:
../mqtt/token.h:315: error: expected primary-expression before ‘[’ 
token
In file included from ../mqtt/async_client.h:35,
from async_publish.cpp:23:
../mqtt/connect_options.h: In constructor 
‘mqtt::connect_options::connect_options()’:
../mqtt/connect_options.h:63: error: could not convert ‘{{'M', 
'Q', 'T', 'C'}, 2, 60, 1, 10, 0l, 0l, 0l, 30, 20, 0l, 0l, 0, 0l}’ 
to ‘MQTTAsync_connectOptions’
async_publish.cpp: In function ‘void sleep(int)’:
async_publish.cpp:38: error: ‘sleep_for’ is not a member of 
‘std::this_thread’
async_publish.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
async_publish.cpp:143: error: ‘nullptr’ was not declared in this 
scope