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Mosquitto for Windows
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Mosquitto for Windows comes in 64-bit and 32-bit flavours. All dependencies are
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provided in the installer.
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Installing
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Running the installer will present the normal type of graphical installer. If
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you want to install without starting the graphical part of the installer, you
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can do so by running it from a cmd prompt with the `/S` switch:
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```
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mosquitto-2.0.12-install-windows-x64.exe /S
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```
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You can override the installation directory with the `/D` switch:
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```
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mosquitto-2.0.12-install-windows-x64.exe /S /D=:\mosquitto
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```
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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 due to the Windows API being used. In modern versions of Windows,
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e.g. Windows 10 or Windows Server 2019, this is approximately 8192 connections.
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In earlier versions of Windows, t his limit is 2048 connections.
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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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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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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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Logging
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If you use `log_dest file ...` in your configuration, the log file will be
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created with security permissions for the current user only. If running as a
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service, this means the SYSTEM user. You will only be able to view the log file
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if you add permissions for yourself or whatever user you wish to view the logs.
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