Prerequisites

Before you set up the C++ producer SDK, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

• Credentials: In the sample code, you provide credentials by specifying a profile that you set up in your AWS credentials profile file. If you haven't already done so, first set up your credentials profile.

  For more information, see Set up AWS Credentials and Region for Development.

• Certificate store integration: The Kinesis Video Streams producer library must establish trust with the service it calls. This is done through validating the certificate authorities (CAs) in the public certificate store. On Linux-based models, this store is located in the /etc/ssl/ directory.

  Download the certificate from the following location to your certificate store:

  https://www.amazontrust.com/repository/SFSRootCAG2.pem

• Install the following build dependencies for macOS:

  • Autoconf 2.69 (License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later)

  • CMake 3.7 or 3.8

  • Pkg-Config

  • xCode (macOS) / clang / gcc (xcode-select version 2347)

  • Java Development Kit (JDK) (for Java JNI compilation)

  • Lib-Pkg

• Install the following build dependencies for Ubuntu:

  • Git: sudo apt install git

  • CMake: sudo apt install cmake

  • G++: sudo apt install g++

  • pkg-config: sudo apt install pkg-config

  • OpenJDK: sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

    Note

    This is only required if you’re building Java Native Interface (JNI).

  • Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/