Build the ForgeRock IoT Gateway
ForgeRock does not deliver binaries for the IoT Gateway. There are simply too many operating system and architecture combinations to support. The IoT Gateway and the IoT SDK are developed in the Go programming language primarily because it has uncomplicated build tooling and good support for cross-compilation to target systems.
These steps assume that you have installed the required software and cloned the Things GitHub repository:
On your target system, navigate to the
iot-edge
directory:cd /path/to/iot-edge
Build the IoT Gateway binary:
go build -o ./bin/gateway ./cmd/gateway
The IoT Gateway binary is now available at
bin/gateway
.(Optional) Run the IoT Gateway with the
--help
flag for available command-line options:./bin/gateway --help
Usage: gateway [OPTIONS] Application Options: --url= AM URL --realm= AM Realm --audience= JWT Audience --tree= Authentication tree --name= Gateway name --address= CoAP Address of Gateway --key= The file containing the Gateway's signing key --kid= The Gateway's signing key ID --cert= The file containing the Gateway's certificate --timeout= Timeout for AM communications (default: 5s) -d, --debug Switch on debug Help Options: -h, --help Show this help message 2020/08/28 10:40:33 Usage: gateway [OPTIONS] Application Options: --url= AM URL --realm= AM Realm --audience= JWT Audience --tree= Authentication tree --name= Gateway name --address= CoAP Address of Gateway --key= The file containing the Gateway's signing key --kid= The Gateway's signing key ID --cert= The file containing the Gateway's certificate --timeout= Timeout for AM communications (default: 5s) -d, --debug Switch on debug Help Options: -h, --help Show this help message
You can specify a target system with a combination of the $GOOS
and $GOARCH
environment variables. This lets you build the IoT Gateway for a variety of operating system and architecture combinations.
For example, to run the IoT Gateway on an arm
32-bit processor (for example, a Raspberry Pi 3 running in 32-bit mode), build the IoT Gateway for linux/arm
, as follows:
GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build -o ./bin/gateway ./cmd/gateway
(Optional) For a complete list of environment and cross-compilation targets, see the go Documentation.
For more build options, see the go command environment variables