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Mosquitto for Windows
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Mosquitto for Windows comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavours.

In both cases, the dependencies are not provided in this installer and must be
installed separately in the case that they are not already available.

Mosquitto for Windows comes in 64-bit and 32-bit flavours. All dependencies are
provided in the installer.

Capabilities
------------

Some versions of Windows have limitations on the number of concurrent
connections, set at approximately 2048 connections depending on the version of
Windows you are using.
connections. In modern versions of Windows, e.g. Windows 10 or Windows Server
2019, this is approximately 8192 connections. In earlier versions of Windows,
this limit is 2048 connections.


Websockets
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under the Static Linking Exception (Section 2) of the License. As a result, the
content is not subject to the LGPL 2.1.

Please note that on Windows, libwebsockets limits connections to a maximum of 64 clients.

Library Thread Support
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will return in the future. If you need thread support, the code still supports
it just fine. Support has been dropped to simplify installation.

Dependencies
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* OpenSSL
Link: http:https://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
Install "Win32 OpenSSL 1.1.0* Light" or "Win64 OpenSSL 1.1.0* Light"
Required DLLs: libssl-1_1.dll, libcrypto-1_1.dll or libssl-1_1-x64.dll, libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll

Please ensure that the required DLLs are on the system path, or are in the same directory as
the mosquitto executable - usually C:\Program Files (x86)\mosquitto or C:\Program Files\mosquitto.

Windows Service
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