Our team would like to develop a DDS Python application in Windows using the rticonnextdds-connector APIs. It looks like there is no support for Windows - will there be future support for the Windows platform ?
Also, from the documentation it seems rticonnextdds-connector has not been formally released yet. What are the limitations of using rticonnextdds-connector now for DDS application development ?
Thanks!
Hi Gene,
Thanks for looking into the rticonnextdds-connector!!
RTI Connector is an experimental project developed in research. So far we did not have the need to use it on windows but, there is not a specific reason on why windows shound not work. The goal is to support all major architectures, windows included.
Unfortunately I cannot give you an exact time-line.
Do you mind explaining a bit your use case, so i can talk a bit more precisily about possible limitations?
Cheers,
Gianpiero
Hi Gianpiero,
How difficult would it be to provide an early-release rticonnextdds-connector Windows support library ?
Our needs are pretty simple for this Python Application. We will need to create the basic DDS entities such as Domain Participants, Publishers, Subscribers and Data Readers/Writers. We'd probably want to use the Listeners with our Data Readers as well. All of this would be using the standard UDP transport.
Gene
Hi Gene,
I was able to get the python connector to work on windows. I used python 2.7 on a 32 bit machine. I tried both win xp and win 7. The connector native library i am using are for i86Win32VS2010.
Ipushed the library and update python code on github. So what you have to do is:
Once downloaded, step into this directory:
and execute in the first cmd prompt:
and in the other cmd prompt:
You should be able to write and read. (see image below).
Please, let me know once you tested.
Regards,
Gianpiero
This is great! Thanks for getting this implemented so quickly.
I was able to reproduce your test results on my Windows 7 system. We are able to proceed with developing the Python application now :)
Gene,
I am not sure if you are interested in connector for nodejs on windows, but i just added support for it. I tested on win 64 bit with VS 2013.
Best,
Gianpiero