LibTorrent

Introduction

High performance torrent library for multiple clients.

LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transferring directly from file pages to the network stack.

To learn how to use libtorrent visit the Wiki.

Related Projects

• https://github.com/rakshasa/rbedit: A dependency-free bencode editor.
• https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent: high performance ncurses based torrent client

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BUILD DEPENDENCIES

Ubuntu, for example

sudo apt install make curl-libcurlpp-dev autoconf

BUILDING

Jump into the github cloned directory

cd libtorrent

Create config files

autoreconf -ivf

Perform configuration

./configure

Compile, slowest option.

make

OR Optionally compile with multiple worker threads, optimal number of threads is number of cores -1 for fastest compile time. For example : a 4 core machine should compile with only 3 cores, an 8-core machine 7, etc.)

make -j7

Install

make install