SETTING UP ZEROMQ C++ ON VISUAL STUDIO

This article is tested against following version / configuration:

• Visual Studio 2012 (V110) Platform Toolset
• Win32
• ZeroMQ 4.0.4
• Runtime Library: Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)

Steps to setup ZeroMQ on a Visual Studio C++ project:

1. Download and install ZeroMQ-4.0.4~miru1.0-x86.exe (or newer) from http://zeromq.org/distro:microsoft-windows
2. Set ZEROMQ_HOME environment variable to C:\Program Files (x86)\ZeroMQ 4.0.4 (or wherever you installed it to)
3. On Visual Studio project configuration, add $(ZEROMQ_HOME)\include to Configuration Properties -> VC++ Directories. Don’t forget to restart Visual Studio so it picks up the new environment variable
4. Add $(ZEROMQ_HOME)\lib to Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories
5. Add libzmq-v110-mt-4_0_4.lib to Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies
6. Get a copy of zmq.hpp from https://github.com/zeromq/cppzmq, place this somewhere on your project. This header file references zmq.h located at $(ZEROMQ_HOME)\include
7. Once you’ve compiled your executable, place libzmq-v110-mt-4_0_4.dll on the same folder, otherwise ZeroMQ initialisation will cause runtime crash

And finally take a look at some excellent tutorial examples from zeromq.org website to get you started, in particular:

• Ask And Ye Shall Receive: Request – Reply pattern example
• Getting the Message Out: Publisher – Subscriber pattern example

See Also

• Using ZeroMQ Java Binding
• ZeroMQ Windows Java Binding: Building libzmq.dll, jzmq.dll and zmq.jar Using Visual Studio 2012