Pulsar C++ client library

• Requirements
• Platforms
• Compilation
  • Compile on Ubuntu Server 20.04
  • Compile on Mac OS X
  • Compile on Windows (Visual Studio)
• Tests
• Requirements for Contributors

Examples for using the API to publish and consume messages can be found on https://github.com/apache/pulsar/tree/master/pulsar-client-cpp/examples

Requirements

• A C++ compiler that supports C++11, like GCC >= 4.8
• CMake >= 3.4
• Boost
• Protocol Buffer >= 3
• libcurl
• openssl

It's recommended to use Protocol Buffer 2.6 because it's verified by CI, but 3.x also works.

The default supported compression types are:

• CompressionNone
• CompressionLZ4

If you want to enable other compression types, you need to install:

• CompressionZLib: zlib
• CompressionZSTD: zstd
• CompressionSNAPPY: snappy

If you want to build and run the tests, you need to install GTest. Otherwise, you need to add CMake option -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF.

If you don't want to build Python client since boost-python may not be easy to install, you need to add CMake option -DBUILD_PYTHON_WRAPPER=OFF.

If you want to use ClientConfiguration::setLogConfFilePath, you need to install the Log4CXX and add CMake option -DUSE_LOG4CXX=ON.

Platforms

Pulsar C++ Client Library has been tested on:

• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Windows x64

Compilation

Compile on Ubuntu

Install all dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -y g++ cmake libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
                libprotobuf-dev libboost-all-dev libgtest-dev libgmock-dev \
                protobuf-compiler

Compile Pulsar client library:

cd pulsar-client-cpp
cmake .
make

Checks

Client library will be placed in

lib/libpulsar.so
lib/libpulsar.a

Tools will be placed in

perf/perfProducer
perf/perfConsumer

Compile on Mac OS X

Install all dependencies:

brew install openssl protobuf boost boost-python3 googletest zstd snappy

Compile Pulsar client library:

cd pulsar-client-cpp/
cmake .
make

Checks

Client library will be placed in

lib/libpulsar.dylib
lib/libpulsar.a

Tools will be placed in:

perf/perfProducer
perf/perfConsumer

Compile on Windows

Install with vcpkg

It's highly recommended to use vcpkg for C++ package management on Windows. It's easy to install and well supported by Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019) and CMake. See here for quick start.

Take Windows 64-bit library as an example, you only need to run

vcpkg install --feature-flags=manifests --triplet x64-windows

NOTE: For Windows 32-bit library, change x64-windows to x86-windows, see here for more details about the triplet concept in Vcpkg.

The all dependencies, which are specified by vcpkg.json, will be installed in vcpkg_installed/ subdirectory,

With vcpkg, you only need to run two commands:

cmake \
 -B ./build \
 -A x64 \
 -DBUILD_PYTHON_WRAPPER=OFF -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF \
 -DVCPKG_TRIPLET=x64-windows \
 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
 -S .
cmake --build ./build --config Release

Then all artifacts will be built into build subdirectory.

NOTE

1. For Windows 32-bit, you need to use -A Win32 and -DVCPKG_TRIPLET=x86-windows.
2. For MSVC Debug mode, you need to replace Release with Debug for both CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE variable and --config option.

Install dependencies manually

You need to install dlfcn-win32 in addition.

If you installed the dependencies manually, you need to run

#If all dependencies are in your path, all that is necessary is
pulsar-client-cpp/cmake .

#if all dependencies are not in your path, then passing in a PROTOC_PATH and CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH is necessary
pulsar-client-cpp/cmake -DPROTOC_PATH=C:/protobuf/bin/protoc -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="C:/boost;C:/openssl;C:/zlib;C:/curl;C:/protobuf;C:/googletest;C:/dlfcn-win32" .

#This will generate pulsar-cpp.sln. Open this in Visual Studio and build the desired configurations.

Checks

Client libraries are available in the following places.

pulsar-client-cpp/build/lib/Release/pulsar.lib
pulsar-client-cpp/build/lib/Release/pulsar.dll

Examples

Add windows environment paths.

pulsar-client-cpp/build/lib/Release
pulsar-client-cpp/vcpkg_installed

Examples are available in.

pulsar-client-cpp/build/examples/Release

Tests

# Execution
# Start standalone broker
./pulsar-test-service-start.sh

# Run the tests
cd tests
./pulsar-tests

# When no longer needed, stop standalone broker
./pulsar-test-service-stop.sh

Requirements for Contributors

It's required to install LLVM for clang-tidy and clang-format. Pulsar C++ client use clang-format 6.0+ to format files. make format automatically formats the files.

We welcome contributions from the open source community, kindly make sure your changes are backward compatible with GCC 4.8 and Boost 1.53.