install the gateway system-wide

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Paho C MQTT-SN gateway and libraries for embedded systems. Paho is an Eclipse IoT project.

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install the gateway system-wide #124

Closed andreas-ibm closed 6 years ago

andreas-ibm commented 6 years ago

I wanted to be able to build and run this from a system-wide environment without needing to know the location of the git clone. So I updated the Makefile to take a prefix and install the components there...

ty4tw commented 6 years ago

Thank you for your contribution. cmake should be a final solution for this issue. I have no skill to do it. can I ask a favor of you?

andreas-ibm commented 6 years ago

yeah, I'm not a huge cmake person either, I've used just about every other make system!

If I have time I'll take a look. Although I don't think this gateway is a viable option for me anymore, only just noticed issue #34 !

Do you know of any server that supports qos -1?

S3ler commented 6 years ago

I can write a cmake file for the MQTTSNGateway and update the README.md

But then:

the current MQTTSNGateway's Makefile is gone (will be generated by cmake)
the install target will be system-wide (e.g. /usr/local/bin on Debian)

Is that ok?

Another thing are the the *.conf files which are copied next to the git clone location. This makes no sense when we install it system-wide. What shall I do with the configuration files?

After installing it system-wide we should think about a systemd unit file so we can manage via sudo service mqttsngateway start | stop | status .

ty4tw commented 6 years ago

Hi S3Ier, Thank you for your proposal. I noticed it that updating a Makefle is enough because of your proposal.
If some one wants to install programs into specific directory, command line is as follows:

$ make install INSTALL_DIR=/any/pah/you/like CONFIG_DIR=/any/pah/you/like

I will change the Makefile.