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![]() ![]() ![]() Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux Installing Ubuntu (or other Linux) from Microsoft Store (free) the reason things are much easier in Windows 10, is because Microsoft has made it so you can install a Windows Subsytem for Linux (Basically Microsoft created a Linux friendly container/vm within Windows 10) Simply run the command below as an administrator in Powershell and then reboot. If you have Windows 10 then you’re in luck! it’s soo much easier. Windows 10 Runs Linux shell via Windows 10’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Just forget the above steps and do the simple steps below.don’t just blindly clicking other sites links. WARNING : remember double check the links above, be careful and make sure these are from reputable sources, scan all downloads for malicious software, I inadvertently downloaded some malware attached to some of the DLL files.Download and unzip Win32 Pthread dll, and copy them to you mosquitto binary folder,.Download and install OpenSSL for Windows, make sure you grab the older version Win32 OpenSSL v1.0.2o as newer versions are missing critical dll. Directly from their website ” MQTT Explorer is a comprehensive MQTT client that provides a structured view of your MQTT topics and makes working with devices/services on your broker dead-simple.” Challenges of Running Mosquitto on earlier Windows Vista,7 ,8 …īasically if you have a version of Windows prior to Windows 10, you will need to perform the following steps, or a variation of these (Some sites use Cygwin for the Linux layer).Īs you can see it’s a bit of an involved process., plus s ome of those binaries or dll’s must be a c ertain 32bit version for overall library compatibility so it’s a hassle, again be careful where you get the binaries/dll from, many of the links are outdated or compromised. On a side note once you get the MQTT Mosquitto server up and running, a good way to see MQTT traffic and inspect it is with MQTT Explorer.
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