2. Paths Mentioned in Documentation

This documentation refers to the following directories, depending on your operating system:

  • $NDDSHOME This refers to the installation directory for Connext.

    The default installation paths are:

    • Non-root user:

      /home/<your user name>/rti_connext_dds-<version>

    • Root user:

      /opt/rti_connext_dds-<version>

    $NDDSHOME is an environment variable set to the installation path.

  • <path to examples> By default, examples are copied into your home directory the first time you run RTI Launcher or any script in $NDDSHOME/bin. This document refers to the location of the copied examples as <path to examples>.

    Wherever you see <path to examples>, replace it with the appropriate path.

    Default path to the examples:

    /home/<your user name>/rti_workspace/<version>/examples

Sometimes this documentation uses <NDDSHOME> to refer to the installation path. Whenever you see <NDDSHOME> used in a path, replace it with $NDDSHOME for Linux or macOS, with %NDDSHOME% for Windows, or with your installation path.

You can specify a different location for rti_workspace. You can also specify that you do not want the examples copied to the workspace. For details, see Controlling Location for RTI Workspace and Copying of Examples in the Connext Installation Guide.

2.1. API Reference HTML Documentation

The default path to the API Reference HTML documentation for each programming language is <NDDSHOME>/doc/api/connext_dds/api_<language>.