2. Installation

RTI Connext Gateway is distributed in source format. You can clone the source repository using git:

git clone --recurse-submodule https://github.com/rticommunity/rticonnextdds-gateway.git

The --recurse-submodule option is required to clone additional third-party repositories as submodules.

If you forget to clone the repository with --recurse-submodule, simply run the following command to pull all the dependencies:

git submodule update --init --recursive

2.1. External Dependencies

2.1.1. Source Build

The repository requires cmake to be built from source, plus a toolchain supported by one of cmake’s generators.

2.1.2. External Librarires

2.1.2.1. Routing Service Modbus Adapter

libmodbus: Libmodbus is used as implementation of the client and server of the MODBUS protocol.
License: LGPL v2.1

2.1.2.2. Routing Service MQTT Adapter

paho.mqtt.c: The Paho C Client library is used as implementation of the client side of the MQTT protocol.
License: Eclipse Public License - v 2.0

2.1.2.3. Routing Service Kafka Adapter

librdkafka: The Librdkafka library is used as implementation of the client side of the Kafka protocol.
License: 2-clause BSD license

2.1.3. Other Dependencies

json_parser: json_parser is used in order to parse json files.
License: BSD with no dependencies

2.1.4. Documentation

The repository requires doxygen and sphinx. You may also need to manually install: graphviz, docutils 0.14+, and sphinx_rtd_theme. See the README.md file for further information.