Version 2.1.0.4 Release Candidate 1

Major Updates

• Provide shared-library version of Agent Library to support plugins.
  • conan ... -o shared=True
  • Builds DLLs for agent, boost, and uses MD runtime
  • Simplifies memory model for creating extensions to the agent and allows for different embedded use cases
• Added MQTT sink with topics
• Added API documentation using doxygen.
  • Use the new target docs (cmake --build . --target docs) to generate a Documentation directory
  • Only generating html, can be configured
  • Will attempt to get the build requirement for doxygen if it cannot find the executable
    • To disable this, use -o with_docs=False and it will not try to build

Documentation

We will create an MTConnect.org subdomain with the documentation fo the agent library from the generated content.

What's Changed

• Cpp agent mqtt sink by @rajwork9 in #245
• Conan package for plugins by @wsobel in #246
• API documentation by @wsobel in #249

Full Changelog: v2.1.0.3_RC2...v2.1.0.4_RC1

NOTE: Cannot build on Windows XP at the time. The platform is unsupported by MS and the current toolchain does not support C++ 17. We will attempt to find a way around this, but at the time, nothing has worked.