# Install activemq-cpp with Homebrew, dnf

C++ API for message brokers such as Apache ActiveMQ. Version 3.9.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-10. Also installable with dnf: sudo dnf install activemq-cpp.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:activemq-cpp
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install activemq-cpp
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install activemq-cpp
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: activemq-cpp from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:activemq-cpp
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.9.5
- **Source summary:** C++ API for message brokers such as Apache ActiveMQ
- **Homepage:** <https://activemq.apache.org/components/cms/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-10T11:09:14-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- activemqcpp-config (alias)
- example (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.9.5
## Project history and usage

ActiveMQ-CPP is Apache ActiveMQ's C++ client library implementing the CMS API, a JMS-like interface for C++ applications talking to message brokers such as Apache ActiveMQ.

### Project history

Apache documents CMS as a C++ Messaging Service API and identifies ActiveMQ-CPP as its implementation. The library supports OpenWire and Stomp over TCP and SSL, failover transport, and auxiliary portable classes for threading, I/O, sockets, and synchronization.

### Adoption history

The official download list shows a long 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x release line from ActiveMQ-CPP 1.0 through 3.9.5, plus CMS API releases. Homebrew and distribution package records reflect its role as a packaged native client library for C++ messaging applications.

### How it is used

Developers link the library into C++ clients that need to connect to a message broker. The source README documents Unix builds with autogen.sh, ./configure, make, make install, Doxygen generation, unit tests, integration tests against a broker, and MSVC support on Windows.

### Why package nerds care

ActiveMQ-CPP is packaging-relevant because it is a native C++ dependency with APR, APR-Util, OpenSSL, CppUnit, autotools, generated docs, test binaries, and platform-specific build notes, the kind of library where package recipes encode real build-system knowledge.

### Timeline

- 2007: ActiveMQ-CPP 1.0 tag created.
- 2007: CMS API 1.0 tag created.
- 2009: ActiveMQ-CPP 3.0 tag created.
- 2013: ActiveMQ-CPP 3.7.0 tag created.
- 2019: ActiveMQ-CPP 3.9.5 release tag created.
- 2025: Apache CMS download page lists 3.9.5 as the current stable release.

### Related projects

- The Apache CMS pages relate ActiveMQ-CPP to Apache ActiveMQ, the CMS API, OpenWire, Stomp, APR, APR-Util, CppUnit, and OpenSSL.

### Sources

- Official Apache ActiveMQ-CPP source README for build, test, platform, and dependency history.
- Official Apache CMS component, documentation, and download pages for project purpose and release line.
- Official Apache GitHub tag metadata for release tag dates.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- dnf - activemq-cpp - 3.9.5-6.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: activemq-cpp from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | C++ implementation of JMS-like messaging client | http://activemq.apache.org/cms/
- dnf - activemq-cpp-devel - 3.9.5-6.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: activemq-cpp-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | C++ implementation header files for JMS-like messaging | http://activemq.apache.org/cms/


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/activemq-cpp.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/activemq-cpp.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph