How to make Paho MQTT C++ Client Library wait for initial connection?

I'm using Paho MQTT C++ Client Library on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 to publish messages to remote MQTT broker. Here is the snippet:

#include "mqtt/client.h" int main() { mqtt::client client("192.168.0.19", "", nullptr); mqtt::connect_options connOpts; connOpts.set_keep_alive_interval(3600); connOpts.set_connect_timeout(5); connOpts.set_clean_session(true); connOpts.set_automatic_reconnect(true); try { client.connect(connOpts); } catch (std::exception& e) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; } }

My test case tries to connect to inactive broker at 192.168.0.19. Despite connect timeout set to 5s and automatic reconnect activated, the program fails immediately with MQTT error [-1]: TCP/TLS connect failure output. It behaves similarily with mqtt::async_client. Is there a way to make it retry for set timeout, i.e. 5s, before failing?