2. Windows installation from binaries

The instructions for installing eProsima Fast DDS in a Windows environment from binaries are provided in this page. It is organized as follows:

First of all, the Requirements and Dependencies detailed below need to be met.

2.1. Requirements

The installation of eProsima Fast DDS in a Windows environment from binaries requires the following tools to be installed in the system:

2.1.1. Visual Studio

Visual Studio is required to have a C++ compiler in the system. For this purpose, make sure to check the Desktop development with C++ option during the Visual Studio installation process.

If Visual Studio is already installed but the Visual C++ Redistributable packages are not, open Visual Studio and go to Tools -> Get Tools and Features and in the Workloads tab enable Desktop development with C++. Finally, click Modify at the bottom right.

2.1.2. Chocolatey

Chocolatey is a Windows package manager. It is needed to install some of eProsima Fast DDS’s dependencies. Download and install it directly from the website.

2.2. Dependencies

eProsima Fast DDS has the following dependencies, when installed from binaries in a Windows environment:

2.2.1. TinyXML2

TinyXML2 is a simple, small and efficient C++ XML parser. It can be downloaded directly from here.

After downloading this package, open an administrative shell with PowerShell and execute the following command:

choco install -y -s <PATH_TO_DOWNLOADS> tinyxml2

where <PATH_TO_DOWNLOADS> is the folder into which the package has been downloaded.

2.2.2. OpenSSL

OpenSSL is a robust toolkit for the TLS and SSL protocols and a general-purpose cryptography library. The latest OpenSSL version for Windows can be found in the OpenSSL website. After installing, add the environment variable OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR pointing to the installation root directory.

For example:

OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64

2.3. Install

The latest release of eProsima Fast DDS for Windows is available at the company website downloads page. Once downloaded, execute the installer and follow the instructions, choosing the preferred Visual Studio version and architecture when prompted.

Note

By default, eProsima Fast DDS does not compile tests. To activate them, please refer to the Windows installation from sources page.

2.3.1. Contents

By default, the installation will download all the available packages, namely:

  • foonathan_memory_vendor, an STL compatible C++ memory allocator library.

  • fastcdr, a C++ library that serializes according to the standard CDR serialization mechanism.

  • fastrtps, the core library of eProsima Fast DDS library.

  • fastrtpsgen, a Java application that generates source code using the data types defined in an IDL file.

2.3.2. Environment variables

eProsima Fast DDS requires the following environment variable setup in order to function properly:

  • FASTRTPSHOME: Root folder where eProsima Fast DDS is installed.

  • Additions to the PATH: The location of eProsima Fast DDS scripts and libraries should be appended to the PATH.

These variables are set automatically by checking the corresponding box during the installation process.