Thank you for the post. I am able to follow through and install bloomberg. But when i ran the example it gave the following error:

SimpleRefDataExample
Connecting to localhost:8194

21AUG2018_19:45:33.186 3492:8036 ERROR blpapi_platformtransporttcp.cpp:671 blpapi.session.transporttcp.{1}.<localhost:8194> Connection failed

21AUG2018_19:45:33.187 3492:8036 WARN blpapi_platformcontroller.cpp:371 blpapi.session.platformcontroller.{1} Platform: 0 failed 1 consecutive connect attempts, stopped trying to reconnect.
Failed to start session.