The Dusun IoT gateway is based on Linux operating systems, then compiling the Paho project has little difference for Linux PC and Dusun gateways. Here we compile and test the Paho client on a Linux PC and then show how to compile the Paho client for the gateway whose cpu architecture is MIPS.
1) Compiling Paho MQTT client and test it on PC
Compiling Paho is easy on a Linux PC with the following commands:
cd paho.mqtt.c
make
sudo make install
Then we can find the compiled binaries on ./build/output directory. In the ./build/output/samples directory, we can see the paho_c_pub/paho_c_sub and MQTTClient_publish/MQTTClient_subscribe which we described above and will be used for testing here.
We should install an eclipse mosquitto server before testing as the following commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mosquitto
After the mosquitto is installed, we start the mosquitto broker (1888: port number);
Mosquitto –p 1888 -v
We test the paho client by starting the Paho clients, the figures below show the results:
- Cross compiling Paho MQTT client for Dusun gateway.
Revise the makefile in the Paho directory (e.g. /paho.mqtt.c): add the following lines, omit cc?=gcc in the file. you should change /OpenWrt-SDK to your OpenWrt SDK folder.
CC = ./OpenWrt-SDK/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kec+dsp_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/bin/mipsel-openwrt-linux-gcc
CFLAGS = -I /OpenWrt-SDK/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/include
LDFLAGS =-L/OpenWrt-SDK/staging_dir/target-mipsel_24kec+dsp_uClibc-0.9.33.2/usr/lib -L/home/guojie/Software/OpenWrt-SDK/staging_dir/toolchain-mipsel_24kec+dsp_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2/lib
In a console, type the following commands, and the Paho client for gateway will be compiled.
cd paho.mqtt.c
sudo make
Finally, copy the output files to the gateway. The program is ready for using to publish/subscribe MQTT commands. Users may revise MQTTClient_publish.c/ MQTTClient_subscribe.c to suit your needs.
