Using the C SDK to Deliver Data to ThingWorx from a Raspberry PI

Question

Hi,
I am referring to the article  posted in knowldge base
https://community.ptc.com/t5/IoT-Tech-Tips/Using-the-C-SDK-to-Deliver-Data-to-ThingWorx-from-a-Raspberry-PI/m-p/534864#M547
 
About setting up C -SDK on Raspberry Pi.
 
I had downloaded the  C-SDK-2-1-1-636
When I unzipped the file I do not find an Makefile any where in the zip file to compile the examples and run.
However the above article which posted says that the examples comes with a makefile. Can anyone help me on the process to compile the latest C SDK on Raspberry Pi.  I tried on other platforms too with out a good make file it is very hard to compile all the dependencies. 
 
Regards
Girish

supandey · Answer

Hi @gkumar-21 after downloading and unzipping the csdk you should see the cmakelists.txt file available under the root folder.

If you are running from linux based platform:

1. create a directory under the c sdk root folder, with any name something like this

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I have named the folder as cmake, notice that i am under csdk folder which contains the CmakeLists.txt

2. CD into the cmake and check for the available compilers with cmake -G list

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and then use the required compiler e.g. cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..

3. CD into one of the example folder within the cmake, e.g. ~/csdk/cmake/examples/SteamSensor/ and execute make to build the solution

4. Once the make finishes you should get an executable e.g. SteamSensor

If you are building on the windows platform the steps are same, you just need to be careful of the compiler you are picking. If you run into issue of not having Cmake already available on your system you can download it for required platform from https://cmake.org/ though I think this is something available OOTB on Ubuntu.

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